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Hello Zenju, you made my day. I checked and I still had another sync software installed which I tested before switching to freefilesync. Thank you very much for your help and have …

Because an account must be provided, either implicitely or explicitely: - create an account with same name and password on both machine, give them the permissions needed and use it…

[Quote] > help file won't open and the help command inside the program can't access the help file. You mean Process Monitor's help file? Are you running the tool from a network sha…

Alright, then let's see what this is about: Start up a Process Monitor ([URL]) trace, retry the operation and let it fail, stop the trace and send the pml file to me via email for …

Support for @ and : in user names has been added (enter the actual login via the SFTP folder picker) [404, Invalid URL: http://www.mediafire.com/download/k7u17l3zv715xbs/FreeFileSy…

Yes this is normal. Were they not updated, a second FFS instance could decide these lock files are abandoned and incorrectly take ownership of the lock. In general if you don't nee…

A lot of MTP devices simply do not support setting the modification time, thous the error. When copying a new file to such an MTP device the operation seems to have succeeded, but …

[Quote] Many thanks for the information and your time! Is there any kudo's or thanks on this forum? I will check if it's easily found. jack ":-Dx

The FFS 7.7 release was compile on Thumbleweed, let me know if this works on Leap, too!

Hello Zenju, Comodo is a very good firewall, and it’s a shame not to use it. Alternate Data Streams could be disabled, following this information: [URL] With version 8.2, go to “Ta…

[Quote] [URL] FFS 7.4 works fine for openSUSE.

as i stated in my first post, it already is > FFS -> Options -> "Copy locked files" is checkmarked EDIT: however it seems you're not using the system wide %programdata% but instead…

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Thanks. found that button! pardon my asking: what's the difference with FileSync?

"sync.ffs_lock" files are automatically ignored by RealtimeSync. A more detailed logging is planned for RealtimeSync to make it more easy to get an overview.

Are those 4 folders really folders, or are they actually links? If these folders are links, you might need to set the Symbolic Link handling to "Follow" in the comparison settings.

I used an Icybox IB 122 CL-U3 with 2 HD WD20EFRX (2Go each) , with freefilesync to manage backup. Everything was OK when running with Windows7, but now with W10 I got some trouble.…

It's a blunt instrument that affects manually run "foreground" FreeFileSync tasks as well as ones automatically run "in background" by RealTimeSync, but would opening FreeFileSync'…

Is there a way to stop the pop up progress window? I have searched and cannot find an answer. Anyone? Thanks! jack ":-\

I tried this and my PC no longer let me log in. Had to take to Doc to fix for £72. Your help files conflict as ones shows running the app that is Realtime one and another example t…

This issue has been fixed in the current beta: [404, Invalid URL: http://www.mediafire.com/download/dl98vgenv6w27du/FreeFileSync_7.7_beta_Windows_Setup.exe]

I have searched and have been unable to find an answer... So here is what I'm trying to do: I want to update files from the left to the right, but only in directories that already …

Can't reach the portable option of installation, the "*you need administrative privilege*" alert pops out as soon as I launch the program. Is there maybe any switch to launch it as…

I've updated FFS to show a service message in this case and additonally log to "LastError.log" which is probably the best it can do in the absence of the (not yet constructed) log …

When it looks like file modification times are not applied correctly even though no errors are reported, this is either a bug/limitation of the file system implementation (e.g. bug…

This is the behavior of the Windows static text controls when they receive too long input, either they go blank or they truncate if they find a space char. You can check this by re…

The problem in the PML file is the same as discussed in this thread [URL] except that the workaround to use a different copy routine does not work. All copy routines fail with "NAM…

Dear, I'm using the FreeFileSync ver.7.1, the mode "mirror from left to right" (for me this means mirror of the network to local disk). My problem is that if any folder with files …

[Quote] Thank you for the answer. Do you mean that the job should contain several folder pairs, and that they would then be processed in parallel by FFS? OpenVPN is able to do that…

Have a look at the [URL] to see what's excluded.

Hi, I like FreeFileSync because it is easy to use and intuitive. But there is a function I would like to get and I do not know if it is possible to obtain it with the standard vers…

Just wanted to give clearance: The beta works great, so far. And yes, the crash was seperate and based on the *vstmididrv.dll*, which is a part of the *vstmidi.exe* distribution (a…

Upgrade to a newer version of FreeFileSync.

See [URL]

Good evening, I am using FFS by two years, on a PC with Windows OS windows 7 pro, and I've never had any problems. Since yesterday I realized that no longer synchronize folders tha…

Are you testing with FFS 7.6? Does the issue occur with 7.5, too? Do you have detailed steps how to reproduce the problem on Windows 10?

I'm running v7.6 on Debian Linux testing. uname -a: Linux mjdtjm-laptop 4.2.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.2.3-2 (2015-10-14) x86_64 GNU/Linux Syncing my laptop with ext HDD, and after …

Dear all, I develop "CmisSync", an open source program for the CMIS protocol, it runs as a tray icon. This tray icon shows fine for thousands of users, except two. After investigat…

Please try again with the updated beta. Mirror from an MTP device to a local disk should work now even if mod times are missing: [404, Invalid URL: http://www.mediafire.com/downloa…

You probably entered a .ffs_batch file only rather than `FreeFileSync.exe <ffs_batch file>` [URL]

Did you test with the official FFS build? [URL]

Just extract the archive and start the "FreeFileSync" executable.

It can add a task scheduling function? for example, if you just want that your folders are mirrored with files from other folders every day , it would suffice that a schedule espel…

A normal desktop application like FreeFileSync can never crash the operating system (except for OS or driver bugs). OS bugs are extremely rare, so 99% of the time driver bugs are t…

Getting this error while running filesync to copy files to external hard drive. Format the external hard drive as NTFS, checked permissions, didn't work.

I think that I had discovered the problem. My USB drive may be faulty. It appears to be working done but when I perform certain operations on it I experience problems. I have used …

Nevermind - realized that the compare was set to contents inadvertantly.

I'm testing FreeFileSYnc 7.5 (Build: Oct 1 2015 - Unicode x64) I am pleased with how it detects file moves after I have moved or renamed a file on the source. But I find a serious …

"New" just creates an empty default configuration, like the "new" button in word processing software.

Help is fine.