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I've managed to figure this out. I had forgotten that I created a new Power Plan. This meant that the Allow Wake Timers setting had defaulted to Important Wake Timers Only. I have …

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I encountered this problem when the destination drive was a network share location and the destination files were edited on a Windows computer. In this case rsync running on Linux …

A RecycleBin[xxx].ffs_tmp folder will always be created if files are to be recycled in an FFS sync. However, it should also be removed when FFS terminates correctly. See [URL]

Hello, I´m using ffs since last week. I´m not sure, wether I made a mistake or ffs has a bug. I want to sync a folder with a access file to a folder on a synology-nas over internet…

Hi, I have been using FFS for about 2/3 months without issue but after working on my computer for a couple of hours this morning, I keep receiving an error message. FreeFileSync - …

I found a solution. In System Preferences -> Security & Privacy - > Privacy select Full Disk Access in the left pane and add FreeFileSync. This opens Locked down directories to Fre…

FreeFileSync (FFS), as the name suggests, is primarily a file synchronization tool, and works at file level. It can also be used for backup purposes, but still works at file level.…

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Thanks for your feedback! I've updated the manual accordingly. I had tested entering the .ffs_batch directly into "Program/script" and it worked, but Windows 10 with all the major …

I've worked on this for over an hour, and still cannot get it to work. I even tried using the real time sync option to open at login through system preferences, and it won't open. …

How do I compare the files in subfolders? Music Library folder view is set to "Songs" but FreeFileSinc simply copied all of the subfolders with their contents. That is useless to m…

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In Windows 10 I used FFS for syncing files with my Transip Stackstorage and it worked perfectly. Now (after new versions ??) FFS compares both content (after entry of Username / PW…

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Hi, Using version 10.7 I am trying to mirror my C;\ drive to another. When trying to copy hiberfil.sys, pagefile.sys, and swapfile.sys, I get Error Cannot read file ........... Err…

[Quote] Ops, now I really feel bad. I did have a look at the FAQ. I'll have a look. It's definitely the new operating system of my Synology. Used to not do it half a year ago. Than…

There are times when I might change a small attribute like capitalisation which is important and needs to be synced but at the moment the software is refusing to sync these attribu…

This should be solvable with a restart.

I see you've been using different email addresses and it's possible to merge multiple donations (by clicking "Extend") only recently, so I've merged all of them manually. You may t…

I donated for the 10.4 version back in September 2018. Have reinstalled all on a new NVMe. (thanks MS W10 updates) Current version is now 10.7. I am unable to upgrade 2 month old l…

Emptying the recycle bin most likely would also have fixed the perf issue. On slow HDDs the recycle bin access time grows linear with the number of items in it, because apparently …

thanks, i was looking after FreeFileSync_10.7_[Donation_Edition]_Setup.exe /HELP

Hi there, So i go to synchronization settings and check the 'detect moved files' option and then i click OK to exit. Then i reopen the synchronization settings and the 'detect move…

Issue definitly isn't with freefilesync. Any task I open the properties page on will show the same error, regardless of which program is used or if there's any strange syntax.

I performed a mirror sync between my 2 hard drives. All files but the one file has synced successfully -- .photoslibrary type, ~42GB size. I have an older version (~40GB) of this s…

I can sync all my folder to my other computer, but it hangs and stops work, showing more than 1300 days left to finish.

I forgot to write, i use a Donation Version.

Hello, is it possible to make copy from one side to another with flag read only? It would be very useful for me.))

I am finding increasingly often files and folders that shouldn't be deleted in the thrash. It feels like FFS (A program that I routinely support by donating) can't really guess whe…

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The file was not removed from your hard disk. It was only removed from the MRU list (most recently used; programming concept). If you know where the file is, you can just go open i…

Hi. I purchased a Donor edition some time ago, it was version 7.8. I have changed to a new machine and would like to use the current (10.6?) version of the Donor edition. Am I stil…

Upon completion of a Sync operation how can I automatically refresh my screen as if I were to select "Compare" I see an area for a command under Synchronization settings - Run a co…

I finally got an app on my phone (SMBSync2) to do it wirelessly which is better in the long run but it takes forever to initially sync. The app is setting the creation date the sam…

Hello, Is it possible to set ffs to: -Back up files and folders and to keep them in the destination if they are deleted in the source destination -to detect renamed folders and fil…

New user of FFS. Every instance running FFS will leave one more FFS green icon in the dock? I have to click on each one then remove from dock...?

Thanks. I'll give it a try.

1) If you move files out of the (left) base folder location(s) or one of its sub folders, that file is removed from the "scope" of the sync and is thus considered to be deleted/rem…

I am running the scheduled task as a user called nasuser and same user and same password created on NAS. Could you explain better your recommendation? Not clear for me Tank you

Hi, My company is requiring that I purchase a license for any installed software. The donate / license terminology on the website is causing issues with some people here. Is there …

Good evening, When I sync with my my cloud I get the following error message: Could not write the modification date of "ftp://78.253.113.26/eric/FLEZ_CUZY/A Postal Agency Tannay.70…

My Office 365 subscription comes with 1 TB of OneDrive Personal storage, which seems like a great, free, location for offsite backups. I dislike the Windows 10 built-in OneDrive sy…

Shoot, how did I miss that when I searched? Thanks!!

When program is doing file comparisons it is not using the Media Created date but the Date Created or Date Modified. This is causing many files to be out of Sync and it appears to …

Hey, I am trying to use FTP setup of FFS, but I cannot find where is it in FFS GUI: [URL] Anyone knows where is it? Thanks in advance!

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I downloaded ver 10.6 for windows and have a file corrupt error when running the installed. I tried it from 2 computers and both have the same error. ( one with Windows 10, other w…

My workaround seems to be making a copy of the target library and attaching it to the source library machine. UPDATE and TWO WAY both copy Permissions in that configuration. Networ…