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I have looked through all the options and am trying to hide the scanning window whenever it runs, as it finds changes. I have it set to close, Under FFS options, it Hides dialogs, …

Hello everybody, i got a problem in my sync path. I create a sync construct to copy new files from my phone to my notebook. Its all good. But if i restart and connect my phone (USB…

Just pulling the plug and putting it back fixes like 90% of the seemingly most complex IT problems! :)

hi forum users, is there a way to ignore only open files of a batch file? thanks in advance

Hi, No, you don't need to mirror. File Sync will compare the two locations and only sync files that are missing, changed, updated or deleted at each location. It will then effectiv…

How could I make FFS automatically start a second comparison with a new GUI or batch on completion of a sync? An error message appears when the sync is finished. [Image] And how co…

I have been used FreeFileSync on PC since many years without trouble. I switched to a modern MacPro ( OSx El Capitan ) I am trying to sync a 32G USB 3.0 key ( formatted on Mac : FA…

OK. We will switch to a single master mirroring scheme instead to avoid needing manual intervention. Thanks for the clarification!

Have a look at the middle column of FFS's preview dialog. This will tell what is going to happen to a file pair and also show the categorization.

Looks like the issue discussed here: [URL]

source code have no device_notify.h/dll.h/etc... why??? how to obtain those files?

If you directly click on "synchronize" it will simulate a click on the "compare" button, so this is just a shortcut.

The folder selector selects folders, not files.

I suspect that the sync.ffs_db file on the server is modified by some other application (probably SyncBack) and this explains why FFS behaves like it is synchronizing the pair for …

You probably have set "on completion" to "shutdown" in sync settings.

I'd try putting a dummy scrollbar object over there.. If the width of the scrollbar is fixed, then simply putting an object above it of the same color as the background and your jo…

I've disabled the automatic quote substitution for FreeFileSync, so there is no need to disable it globally. Here's the new version, let me know if there are any issues: [URL]

Are there other prerequisites besides the source that are needed to build? Getting some build errors that I can resolve by correcting references to header folders in the source - l…

Hello: When should FreeFileSync be used with RealtimeSync and when should it be used in a continuous loop in a batch file? What is the difference? Thank you.

I suggest you try to synchronize manually and evaluate the preview window to find out what exactly is happening and why some files are not synced from the USB to the local drive. I…

[Quote] This means that there are additional FFS processes running, probably scheduled by Task Planer. A single FFS process won't re-create the sync.ffs_lock files during a sync se…

Note that "idle time" is *not* a delay: The problem is, the longer you set the minimum idle time, the less likely it is that such a long time span without any wite operations actua…

Perfect thanks a lot. I did not notice specific filter per Pair.

When an application crashes it cannot delete any files, the process is essentially dead, doing nothing anymore. In the case of FreeFileSync there is no point in time where a crash …

FreeFileSync optimizes the sequence of synchronization steps so that peak disk space usage is reduced as far as possible (e.g. it starts by overwriting larger files by smaller ones…

All that can be safely said is that ERROR_DISK_FULL(112) is coming directly from the Windows API, so there must be something to it or it is a file system driver bug. Latter case is…

Same error on mac-os-x 10.10 (with either /usr/bin/g++ (clang) or with /usr/local/bin/g++-5 provided by homebrew). [Code]

Managed to answer my own question. For anyone else struggling with this, the answer is to specify the full path of where you want the revisions to go to. In my example that would b…

Perfect. I used the `*\*` filter to exclude the subfolder names too. Many thanks.

[Quote] Thanks! So, I want files deleted from my left/source location also to be deleted from my right/target location - BUT, as I said, I have old files in my back up HD, within t…

As pointed out earlier in other posts in this forum, a "verify" function after a copy action is not reliable, as in many cases the file that has just been copied might be read from…

Hello, at first, my english is not very good, but I try my best ;-) I have a big collection of files, which all are now all backed up on a lot lto6 tapes. These files are all linke…

Hello, I am a user of FreeFileSync, and I want to use RealtimeSync as a Linux Daemon (service), because I have many folders to watch and I would like a automated synchronization. I…

Did you follow the instructions in the manual? (see here [URL]) For scheduling you might need to call the FFS exe and define the batch-job as an argument, and can not just call the…

Hi Zenju, I changed now from connection my NAS with cifs to nfs. Now wenn my NAS is connected by nfs everything seems to work correct, and I could syncronisize all my data. Thanks …

Ok, that's it. thank you Zenju

The filter phrase always needs to be a match for the complete relative path: [URL]

You could use a second folder pair with different filter settings and only include these empty folders.

Hi. I can no longer use FreeFileSync. I recently moved away from PortableApps.com Menu to SyMenu. I had the last working FreeFileSync version 6.2 on PA.c. I installed a later versi…

[Quote] I'm pretty sure it's UTF-8. I put in a support ticket with my provider to see if they can tell me for sure.