FreeFileSync Forum

Hi, Ran some searches on this forum and Google, but had trouble finding information. For your background, I'm on a Mac using the latest version of Sierra. I recently discovered FFS…

Sorry to sound stupid, the settings were set up for me within our company by our IT dept for our data backup, can you tell me how I do that? I'd rather try it myself as I'd have to…

I'm having this same issue going from 7.7 to 8.6.

Hi all first sorry for my poor English ! i'm running free file sync on Windows 10 for a Mirror between a hard drive and a nas. work fine ! the Schedule process run every minutes an…

I have made the batch job how I want it to be synchronized. Now all I want to know is how can I create a Windows 7 Service or a Task that will run every time a file in a folder cha…

Hi there, I have installed FFS on a new notebook with same parameters I have on my old one. Running a synchronization with my Synology NAS results in a very poor perfomance with av…

In my case even with internet it's not working.

I installed Free file sync and for making my system as SFTP server I install free version of Solarwinds SFTP/SCP utility. It is working fine because I have tested it for one user. …

Previous versions of FFS backed up open files by (rather slowly) creating shadow copies. With a very large PST file, the latest version gives me the following error message: Cannot…

Thx for the Info

thanks, i have already seen this option but the predefined values are not what i need. i need custom date selection. for example 01.may 2016. all data created after this time shoul…

A "delete" is also considered a modification. To resolve the conflict you need to set a sync direction.

i changes that value and that error dissappeared, now i get the following when i try to start the sync: Cannot set directory lock for "G:\Asus Backup Main". Cannot write file "G:\A…

[Quote] Yes, my NAS has an IP address and I use that all the time to access the NAS from every other application in my LInux Mint system - it's only FFS that cannot use it. I do no…

The answer is here: [URL]. The SFTP protocol is definitely not compatible with Filezilla Server. We would need to soon implement the TLS protocol in FreeFilesync. Thanks for everyt…

MPX, Thank you. Works perfectly now.

I have an old mac raid i am trying to sync because the users have put in directory names and file names that do not translate to windows --- filesync fails is there a way for freef…

jedflash - I may have replicated the problem. I attempted to sync multiple files starting with "._" and while they did indeed sync successfully, they were marked as "Hidden", even …

When using Cryptomator -- which creates a virtual network drive assigned a drive letter (i.e. Z:/), RealTimeSync encounters an error. [Quote] However, synchronization does work whe…

Plerry - Thanks! Your latest suggestion improved scans greatly, and does just want I was looking for. many thanks!

It's not clear what the problem actually is. Is it that some folder is reported by FFS as missing, but should not be? Can you give a more precise error description including expect…

My backup is not a true reflection of the origonal. My D drive hold all the data files. In that I have folder called "oldDownloads" I Use FFS to simply backup D: to a folder in G: …

When try to setup "right" side using sftp, I got error message like: [Quote] The same username, password, address and port, been used on ssh and winscp. I have successfully transfe…

Installing freefilesync via cask fails. Side-question: will freefilesync installed via brew contain the adware? [Code]

menu -> tools -> options: show hidden dialogs again

I will check for a new version when I feel like doing so. I don't want to be nagged every time I start the program if I've chosen not to update the last time I started it. How do I…

What kind of error messages did 8.6 show that previous versions didn't?

I'll give it a go when I can to find out. Got to say I'm a little nervous about what I may have already lost :-( Thx, Sentry1

The installer sends a few pieces of non-personal data for statistical purposes to the FreeFileSync homepage (language, country, OS name, OS version, ffs version). Cou can verify th…

i cant do that because almost every day, a new subfolder will be created automatically

Links to both FreeFileSync and RealTimeSync should have been created on the Desktop.

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Hey guys, I just tried to get the RealtimSync working with my Galaxy Note3. Everything which has a drive letter, is working like a charm (USB sticks, NAS's, ...). RealtimeSync give…

Could be an unmet library dependency. Can you try to start FreeFileSync via command line and see if the console prints out some error message? [Code]

I notice that the last version of compiled FFS for Centos was FFS 7.5. on 1 Sept 2015. I understand that it is a lot of extra work and that there are fewer users of it, however isn…

I have met the same error. After I changed the file system of destination from exFAT to NTFS, I worked well. I think FFS should resolve this problem for exFAT.

Hello, I have the same problem, I can telnet to the port, no FW installed, but FFS always fails with timeout. Ideas? Running the latest version.

Can you post a screenshot of the error message?

Hi, I just donated to receive the ad-free version of the software. The resulting Thank-You page says that the page is only valid until December 1st, 2016. How will I be able to upg…

RealTimeSync is expected to get a redesign including some kind of log window to help troubleshoot cases like these.

Running Linux Mint. Of an older version I was able to install this app so that it would run at startup. Seems like since around version 8 that went away. How does one install this …

Problem solved ! Thank you for an excellent file sync utility.

Okay... Then it's Problem Solved. Thanx..!

Quick update ... ... I've just commented the uncompiling lines, and I succeeded FileSync 8.6 to build and run on openSUSE 13.1. [Code] [Code] Cool stuff...

I'm sorry if my comment doesn't help but I hope that it does. I'm using Linux Mint 18, and indeed version 8.5 works fine for me but 8.6 doesn't. I tried running the file in termina…

I want to selectively synchronize two hard drives over the internet. Files in some folders need to be synchronized daily, other's weekly and/or monthly. Because some of the files a…

I have the same probleme for the update 8.6 of FFS. I need also help. thx Also a probleme whit the installer... [Attachment]

Zenju: Please provide a portable version without the Install.dat, it can be a direct zipped version that can be downloaded and unzipped, and that works right away. And it can be fo…

Oh, and they are still running. I checked that with the task manager. That is, they task continues to run.

If the setting doesn't currently exist, I'll make a request for it, but I was hoping to get confirmation either way before I did that. Thanks everyone.