FreeFileSync Forum

I have two computers A and B, both under Windwos (A W7, B W10) which are connected in a home network. On both computers I am logged in with the same name and passwort as an adminis…

Hello! I just purchased FFS for my home Mac that has separate accounts for all family members and an admin account. I'm logged into the admin account (FFS installed using it). I'm …

I'm not able to reproduce this problem. Do you have specific steps?

But the real name of the folder, or folders, are larger than freefilesync told us. Don't have this name here. I have more than 1 folder that exist with this initial.

Please tell us what FFS version you are using and paste your full script in a post so we can verify the options you are using.

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As with all these cases where the binary does not work on Linux: Run FreeFileSync from the command line and see what error messages you get. You'll then see which dependencies are …

Hi Zenju, Sorry for the delay, as I can't message from my work PC until it's cleared. I'm working with a team for next steps on this, which is difficult because absences due to the…

Hi glweidnerjr, please post the script you have used to sync.

Hi, Apologies if this is a really stupid question. Is this the right programme for my need? All I'm looking to do is find something that will sync documents across multiple devices…

[Quote] Thank you, I get it now (a little surprised that exclude is treated differently by the program). [Quote] Yes those locations are what I meant. Thank you very much for the h…

Hallo, entschuldigung für mein schlechtes Englisch. Darum lasse ich meinen deutschen Text per Google übersetzen. Ich hoffe, es ist trotzdem klar, was mein Problem ist. Ich kann die…

Thank you for the reply. I didn't realize that I had somehow allowed *\Documents\ into the Exclude list. I removed it per your suggestion but then the Documents folder didn't appea…

If you want to sync all of drive G: to the root of drive H: * define G:\ as your left location and H:\ as your right location * your include filter should contain just the default …

Hello, First off, I am not an experienced user of this app (but a Windows user since 1993). I installed the new version, opened it and immediately got the error message I've posted…

Is this error reproducible when copying a particular file?

I expect your "point" is understood. But you did not answer my (bottom) question about the sense behind your "point". And in order to potentially trigger SW changes, at least the s…

Thank you

Hi, I'm really liking this software so far. I was wondering if anyone could help me to create rules to perform the following operation; Left Folder: C:\MYPATH\ where the subfolders…

Hi! When I tried to browse my freenas folders on freefilesync, I got an error code that looked like this : (Failed to get information about server "192.168.1.4". CURLE_COULDNT_CONN…

Thank you very much...it works with 9.4 beta!

Thank you, schnappi, i'll try, but i want run this batch file without task scheduler, because on my winxp computers it is disabled through group policy.

Issue resolved. Thank you.

hello ! please, i'd like to ask you if it's possible to synchronise some discs on my laptop, with some discs on my pc tower, through a hub and rj45 cables ... that would be great, …

Of course this could be another manifestation of this bug here: [URL]

Hallo Leute, ich verwende noch die o.g. Version. Ich nutzt FS nur zum Backup um Dateien von einem in ein anderes Verzeuchnis zu kopieren. Wie muss ich FS einstellen um in den Fenst…

33554467 Bytes is approx. only 32 MB. Reason for the memory allocation failure is likely RAM fragmentation or some server limit on the maximum working set size.

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Version 8.6 is the last version that can be used as a portable version without purchasing the donation version. As a result sticking with version 8.6 allows FreeFileSync to be used…

In general image attachments should work fine on this forum.

[Quote] Sure, use the FFS companion: RealTimeSync! [URL]

Your OS ist nt6.0. In nt6.0 freefilesync run only in 32bit Modus even the OS is 64 bit.

The 9.2 installation fails saying that it cannot overwrite pre-existing freefilesync.exe I can't delete it manually since it says you meed administrator rights, even-though I'm log…

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FreeFileSync (FFS) is primarily a file syncing tool. If you want to backup (and potentially restore) your total system, rather than creating backups (and potentially restore) at fi…

Hi, when I use 'FreeFileSync' to upload and sync my files to my online backup server the "Time Stamp" (Time and Date when the file was last modified) changes from the original time…

Hi Blackforrestman, make sure your batch job has set "Handle errors" to Ignore.

FreeFileSync (FFS) only needs to be installed on 1 computer. Obviously the computer on which FFS is installed and running should have at least read- and (depending on the type of s…

I have the same error. Am running Linux Mint LDME2 AMD64. It seems this doesn't ship with libpng16, only libpng12. Installing libpng16 only throws up further errors. Reverted to pr…

[Quote] Any suggestion? Or should I do it from the scratch?

Can anybody confirm/refute this bag ?

Sync the local versions of the two cloud services using the "Two way" variant. Synchronization Settings [URL]

Or 6thgear's bank suspects/distrust the transaction Stripe is trying to complete ...

The SD memory card is probably near its end of life. [URL] They speak about 10 years but in my personal experience it is too optimistic. Mine 32 GB Samsung SD used in my Galaxy die…

To be the administrator doesn't mean you can do anything to you pc without warning or without specific permission, so try to run FreeFileSync as Administrator: Right click on its l…

Thank you, I've kind of solved it by making a general rule to allow any outgoing connections of any process to that url.

Did you try: Tools/Reset Layout or Tools/Options/Show hidden dialogs again (Tools being the top left in between File and Help)

Actually it's not the same. Having a number of individual files dispersed in a mass of other files makes excluding a tedious job of having to go a few files at a time. "Unselect al…

When i run a batch of two items i get after processing the second item the errorcode 17, File exists (open) in the log file section. This occurs after updating to the 9.2 version A…

Try reading this post. You just need to find and delete the file mentioned there. [URL]