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Just for thoroughness, I want to list three things that did change between before and now. None of them seem to me like they should matter, but in case there's more than meets the …

Any advice?

Thank you all I ended up using two batch scripts I scheduled in sequence

Yes I've been having problems with FreeFileSync with Sandisk 128GB Flash Drive; when trying to synronizing them; the ones that are being syncronizhed to the original isn't the exac…

Yeah I got errors on some of the system files but everything else was fine. I did get this error right at the start though: Cannot set directory lock for C:\. Cannot write file C:\…

Ok, thank you. So maybe I should not try synchronisation tools like ffs to handle my issue? Are there other approaches or tools which ignore the folder hierarchy? Any suggestions? …

FFS cannot determine a direction in which to sync, thous the warning, because the item will be skipped.

[Quote] Thank you @Zenju, the problem solved with [404, Invalid URL: https://freefilesync.org/FreeFileSync_6.15_bugfix_Source.zip]

You can do a Process Monitor ([URL]) trace while this happens, save it as .pml and send it to me via mail for analysis.

Before starting the batch, to avoid overwriting important data I would kindly know if the execution order of tasks saved in the file * .ffs_batch It is from the top of the file to …

You can find it here: [URL]

Yes this was the problem ! Thank you for the trick :)

This depends on what you have set up as deletion handling: - Recycle Bin: The deleted files should be there, unless they were flushed out by newer files that were moved to the bin …

NEVERMIND GUYS. TURNS OUT WIN7 HAS MADE FREEFILSYNC OUTMOTED FOR THE TRANSFERS I HAND IN MIND TO GOOGLE DRIVE

I'm in the same case, any help will be appreciated Regards

But it was working until it was interrupted. So something changed from the start of the sync to the attempt to restart. That's why it seems that FFS would have had some impact on w…

I did not exclude anything. It did copy the files after several tries. However the batch with shedule did not.

My laptop no longer works, so I just got a Surface Pro. The hard drive is so small that I put my document file on a Micro SDHC card. I was syncing it with my USB drive which I carr…

it's possible when you run RealTimeSync, which comes with FreeFileSync. i'd like to do the same with an external drive. however my problem is, that RealTimeSync keeps monitoring fo…

Could be related to permissions and/or ownership. Does it help if you leave "Copy File access permissions" disabled?

very good now it work my mistake was create a batch from RealtimeSync and save it then calling it from command line editated manually making batch from FreeFileSync and save it and…

Yea, not the sole problem(s) with FFS from what I researched & can see.

> version 6.15: Not sure why "rename" would fail with ENOTDIR due to the existence of colon characters on Linux, but it's not a bug in FreeFilesync and a limitation of this Posix A…

> Oh great, more bugs, this time on this forum. I just posted a long reply, was asked to log on after posting, then returned to this same page with my post gone to the bit bucket. …

OK, I think I've solved it. I need to put only the batch file name (DataSyncSettings.ffs_batch) in the "Add arguments" box, and the rest of the file path needs to be put in the "St…

[Quote] thanks a lot - now everything is working as before

The crash is a stack overflow caused by encountering a folder with an empty name (= data corruption). => same issue as discussed here: [URL] The problem occurred when traversing th…

I'm running FFS by going to start menu and right-clicking on FFS, and selecting "Run as administrator". But I still get the permission problems I described.

Hello, Using Windows 8.1, I can't sync files from a OneDrive folder (ex SkyDrive, by Microsoft) to a local PC folder. I keep getting "Error 1920: apparently FFS can't read the file…

it is working now. i've downloaded from majorgeeks.com!

My options contain lines like this ..\WinMerge\WinMergePortable.exe "%item_path%" "%item2_path%" which used to work fine, but no longer does. Yields an error message "Incorrect com…

Most likely this is not a corruption of the file system, but rather an incorrect use of links. To the extent that it concerns an incorrect *symbolic* link, you could try change the…

Check your filter setting. *\desktop.ini and *\thumbs.db are by default in the exclude-filter. (Temporary) deleting these filter items will learn you if the file-count then matches…

Can I install FreeFileSync on Debian? How? There´s no .DEB packages on the download page.

thanks for the program, it seems to work very well. i have RealTimeSync running from my autostart folder as desribed in the helpfile. when i connect the drive with the ffs_batch-fi…

Have a look at help file chapter "[URL]".

Excellent, this will be in the next FFS release. Thanks for the feedback and tests!

We have 5 users, each of them with laptops. They come once or twice a week to the office. - -Is there a recomendation about how to configurate this syncoronization with the server …

If you need to sync system folders you must run the sync as administrator.

Hi - just for someone who is still looking for an answer, i had the same problem with no execution - all i had to do is to change the third line from default behaviour to -> X appl…