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Your 1st left-right pair is empty. I don't know if that can cause problems. Nevertheless, I would delete any empty left-right pairs (via the red minus-icon in front of it). Your 2n…

Thank you, Plerry. [Attachment] I had to do a 'Save as ...' instead of just clicking on the 'Save' button. The above screenshot is actually in the '[URL]' section of the manual, no…

I routinely get the warning: "Warning: The following folders are significantly different. Please check that the correct folders are selected for synchronization." I expect the fold…

You do not mention if you had run this FreeFileSync (FFS) sync before. If you did run the exact same sync configuration before, and at the end of that sync the D:\test_d and G:\tes…

I have been using FFS successfully for some years to synchronise my library of FLAC files on my Brennan B2 2TB hard drive to my ReadyNAS, with very little problem. It had generally…

> I see no reason why I shouldn't restore the Administrator account. If you need an account with administrator privileges, create a separate account with the necessary privileges. …

The program files folder utilities folder was deleted when uninstalled so I didn't have to delete, but reinstalled to same location so that wasn't the problem. As for the AppData f…

I use FFS to create a mirror of a large data set. The source is local. The target is on a network. This worked great until the IT department decided to move the data, leaving me wi…

Indeed, the "G" drive is the originator. The E,C, and F drives are not the originators. It may be that the G drive is failing and Free File Sync noticed it.

I synchronized drive (D) with two external hard disks, but the synchronization no longer works as it used to. In previous versions, I created a batch job. [Image] [Image] [Image]

Description: When using FreeFileSync on Windows to synchronize files to a macOS-hosted SMB share, Windows file attributes some how mapped by macOS's SMB daemon into the uchg (user …

Problem appears to be resolved. Not sure why. Ran all the configurations again, closed FreeFileSync and powered down (as I did yesterday). This time, all configs were present after…

Version 14.8 no longer works; incorrect timestamps are being copied here as well. Going back to 14.7

freefilesync crashes when switching from two way to mirror on linux. its super annoying and I don't know how to fix it. terminal says its a segmentation fault not sure where to fin…

Hello, Is it possible to activate the application using a new offline activation key on a computer where it is already installed and activated—for example, by replacing the "Regist…

Sorry - it is a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2 - running RaspOs "Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)" (13.6)

Hi, This issue is still occurring in version 14.11

I know this is an older question but I am having exactly the same problem now on Ubuntu 26.04 and FFS version 14.11. Any hints as to what the solution might be ?

I have a folder where I mirror only files created/updated in the last "n" days. This does not work reliably. I delete all the files in the target folder ( by copy of empty folder )…

Hi, Do you think there's a possibility that there is something in your user profile on that computer that is causing a problem? What I recommend is that you create a new local acco…

[Quote] You are very welcome.

Hello Plerry, thanks for your reply. I will check this out. Of course it would be nicer to have more and granular control for the filter rules, so that my goal could be acomplished…

I've been doing some reading on Redirection Guard, it would seem that setting a trust flag can be exploited if a malicious user updates the junction to point to a system folder, is…

Hi there, I have problems in downloading files when FFS is active and syncing. When I stop syncing the download started, when syncing I can't download files with JDL. Any Ideas wha…

When I back up file from my mac to SSD T7 by FreeFileSync, I lost my files. Because my ssd get over storage so the process is broken, and all my data is gone, i can't find them alt…

okay thanks

Hi _GTA_, Glad to hear you fixed it. How did you do it? Where was it? I've checked ~/.config/FreeFileSync/GlobalSettings.xml and can't spot anything. I've even compared the current…

Hi, I have this problem with certain mounts, I do get this error when doing a compare. After hitting `ignore`, it will continue. Any idea anyone how to fix this? Cannot read direct…

> ... comparing all 25,000 photos every time takes a bit of a while The use of the database does not make your comparison faster. The use of the database, if supported by both your…

How and WHERE can I recover my files....No one has given me a SINGLE solution since then! How and WHERE can I recover my files....No one has given me a SINGLE solution since then!

UPDATE: Today I changed folder name on right syncing side, all right for first run (full copy) but KO for following run, same issue ...

sorry everyone, I should have spent more time looking at the videos, etc... it's working now, thanks,

thank you very much, this works great! in case someone is interested, I had ChatGPT write me a script which works as a replacement for the MaxCount functionality. Note that it dist…

You can specify a command to run in the sync's synchronization settings tab

Folder selection logic is not the best in this program. Excluded folders should not disappear from the display. A checkmark type of selection should be by every folder. The current…

I need to see all folders, even those excluded. I was hoping there would be some option that showed them grayed out. When selecting which audiobooks to sync, it becomes a chore dea…

Ah, for anyone struggling as I did: under 'tools' I found 'Show folder pairs'... This showed up in a sub window free floating over the interface. There I could set the paths! Appar…

[URL] might explain what FFS does. OneDrive seems to retain deleted files in its own specific way.

Alternatively, but it would be ugly, you could do something like... in FFS, F8 (Synchronization), Run a command: On completion: FFS_DONE.bat FFS_DONE.bat: [Code] . (pseudo-code) ru…

I ran a two way synchronisation then used Compare, which reported nothing ("No files to synchronise"). I then switched to the other machine and ran Compare and it ran up a mass of …

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For individual sync configurations, just copy over the .ffs_gui and .ffs_batch files you've created. For global FFS settings, copy over the GlobalSettings.xml file in the AppData d…

The available hot-keys are shown in the right-click menu: [Attachment]

Another update - the last update was a fluke: Clicking on [Last session] now links to a job which was not the last job which FFS ran again.

Disabling "Fail-safe file copy" has not made it work properly

It turns out that should be a weird behaviour of Mac. The files I used for md5 check manually on the above is some how being removed on Mac photo library when I am doing the check …

No, I am always running as Admin, because I have some locked files to back up. But this was a new install and when I checked the box for Locked files, I must have accidentally also…

Not too clear on what you're looking for, but maybe something here: [URL]

Or manually rename the files in one of the ends.

While syncing between two network shares in a "two way" sync from a Linux Mint 22.3 box, I have file in the LM Trash that will not delete, and never go's away.