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When I install Free File Sync 8.3 I was having some issues that I dont want to elaborate here. So I have downgraded to Free File Sync 7.5 & the crashes went away. Now when I start …

Try the revisions or versions option. %TimeStamp%

My guess would be blubdas, that the trigger on "startup" would only run once. It errors or hangs - it would need a restart functionality or command. Whereas with "daily" the system…

It seems you are using the "Recycle-bin" variant as the "delete files" method. This is exactly the same as when using the (Windows) Recycle-bin from e.g. Windows Explorer. It is me…

Hi. Sorry for my bad english, I'm german. ;-) I made a backup-job with freefilesync 8.3 with Windows 10. It works good. But now I can't see the copied files at the server with Wind…

Hi, I am trying to use ffs to backup the maildir from an linux emailserver over ssh to a windows system (on which ffs is running). The emailfiles contain a colon, which is a prohib…

Your exclusion "*\name\*" will exclude all files and folders that have a folder called "name" anywhere in their path. An exclusion "*\name\" should give the same result. If you jus…

I'm doing an initial sync between my PC and a new external hard drive which is mostly empty. So I queue up paths and set new folders to receive the data. Every time I start a sync …

Even though you've told FFS to use Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), is the service actually running on your end?

I'm having this issue too. Is there any solution for it?

The tool to monitor folders for changes is RealTimeSync (RTS). Upon detecting changes, RTS can run FreeFileSyns (FFS) to perform a synchronization. Launching FFS at startup will ju…

[Quote] That'll teach me to not buy something until I am ready and have the time to install and learn the software ;-( fyi, I never saw (or noticed) that even though I did go in an…

If you send me a Process Monitor trace ([URL]) for a copy operation that leads to the above error, maybe there is a workaround to detect and avoid this issue.

UNIX(-like) diff command ? [Code] [Code] [Code]

I was not seeing any of my folders or files listed in either the left or right window of your program. I essentially clicked on everything under the sun to try to get them to show,…

Perfect. It worked. Thanks a lot. But I had to also unblock the file, which I think is a Vista issue. For whoever may have the same issue: right-click - properties - unblock. Many …

You can use FreeFileSync for this purpose. Simply use the (default?) two-way-sync for your synchronization settings. You would then have two files in two locations, synchronized (o…

Hi schnappi, Thanks for your help. The problem was with the SSL&SSH version on the remote server. Installed/configured openssl-1.0.2 and openssh-7.2p2 and SFTP is working for FFS. …

Well, that's interesting: I have been asking for some time on a growing set of forums how a NAS drive can be used with FFS, under linux. Nobody seems to know. Is this something tha…

Same problem. FFS8.3 crashes at install. Running on Windows 10 Home. First, the 8.1 previous version stopped working, than 8.3 crashed at install, preventing fixing the problem. Di…

Thanks. I'm learning. Beverly Howard

... or just save a configuration and call it "my default".

He gives me test release 8.4-beta with solved issue, and asks everyone to wait for the final release on first week of August.

OK now ... as far as I can see on any Opensuse repositories, the latest libstdc++ version available is 5.4.0 (or, to be more exact: 5.4.0+r237057-80.1 in Opensuse terms). The lates…

I have a rapidly changing filesystem and on detecting filesystem changes FFS runs multiple times (too many times if left unattended and crashes - the other instances wait for the c…

Thanks a lot for your reply, it was pretty easy :)

How can I make RealTimeSync sun silently (hidden) on Mac El Capitan? The Scanning window appears every time it runs. I would rather it didn't.

I've tested RealTimeSync with the command: cmd /c echo %change_action% "%change_path%" >>%UserProfile%\Desktop\log.txt to see if anything is logged, but it doesn't even output the …

What OS are involved? Do you (did you) have 'Copy DACL, SACL, Owner, Group' enabled in FFS? If so, then maybe its just a permissions issue not being set correctly or sufficient on …

Yes, the fix will be included in the next release.

Yah, I'm using VPN. Didn't even occur to me, sorry to have made such a fuss. I disconnected from VPN and tried again, all went well. Thank you for your efforts and, again, sorry!

There is no way to disable this initial scanning. On the other hand there aren't any real drawbacks to this behavior. Even if the drives are actually in sync then this first result…

FFS 8.3 installed on Windows 10 computer, connecting to three different Android devices running various versions of Android. Workflow is that I download a suite of files from the w…

Of course I can do this (by myself) ... sorry for my ignorance and thanks for your little picture ... I got the idea and finished the fullscreen mode by myself ... such a dumb thin…

I'm using an up-to-date Windows10 version and when I start a syncing procedure, the PC goes to the PC initialization procedures. The syncing procedures immediately stops Where is t…

Based on another thread, I tried disabling Bitdefender temporarily, and the install completed successfully. BD was reporting "an infected item in C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Temp\ns0…

Good day, First let me start by saying I love FreeFileSync, it beats viceversa hands down. Now as you can see from the attached images I’m having trouble syncing that I had not bee…

Windows Server 2008 R2 does not have a built in SSH server. Have you installed a SSH server on your Windows Server?

I've been trying to use FFS to sync the SD card in my tablet (Samsung GT-N5110 / Android 4.2.2) since the '8' series (8.1, 8.2, 8.3) came out and in all cases the compare works but…

I have a single batch file that needs to sync files from 2 folders I can't rely on 1 machine being logged in all the time but would prefer to have RTS just running from 1 machine. …