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This is Windows design: Drag and drop does not work when an application is running elevated. Security...

It keeps regenerating a 16kb sync.ffs_db file when i try to delete it. Not sure why.

I getting this error Cannot open file "GlobalSettings.xml". Error Code 32: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. (CreateFile) This is the …

This seems to be a recurring issue but I couldn't find the best thread quickly, maybe this one: [URL] General issue: mapped network shares are only visible to your user account, bu…

So, this is the one of many similar threads that end with no response. All of them are very much like my problem. Why no answer?

Hello. *First of all, I will give you an overview over my configuration. I got a WORKSTATION, witch syncs via FreeFileSync to a local NAS (home1). This NAS (home1) syncs via an oth…

Thanks! Changing from "two way" to custom, did the trick :) Disabling "completed" notification was in Sync settings > On completion > close progress dialog. The best thing is that …

Yes, shouldn't be a problem.

The current CIS version does no longer have this problem - at least, when the "feature" is disabled. I dont want to test whether the problem persist with the enabled feature.

Hi! Is it possible to invest in log format change? For example .CSV or .XML format? Or write .html after backup that will have explorer like tree for backup files/folders and highl…

After upgrading to Windows 10, progress dialog of a batch job scheduled by task scheduler won't show up. In Task Manager, two processes of FreeFileSync are running. But I can't fig…

There are a number of files that have been updated since my last sync that show up as "Files that won't be copied" but which are nevertheless not included in any of my exclusion fi…

[Quote] Doesn't matter, the guard64.dll is still active.

[Quote] The logs provided were taken *while* the drive was on a USB2 connection. The type of interface is not the problem. The problem occurs whther the drive is connected to a USB…

Can't you simply use MTP to access the Android tablet with FreeFileSync? Regarding the SFTP issues when connecting with FreeFileSync: In general, if it works with other tools, it s…

[Quote] I suspect the icon is hidden from the notification area until shown manually for the first time, just like on Windows 7.

I am interested in this task. I have a lot of directories in different places for backup. In other programs, I can simply locate needed dirs and 1 destination dir. And start. All d…

How do I uninstall RealTimeSync? It is not listed in Control Panel > Uninstall a program, and jv16 does not list it either. Can I just delete the .exe file & shortcut? David

Disregard my previous post... It must have been a senoir moment! David

Hi. I upgraded to 7.5 on a 64bit arch-system. No problems occured. Now I tried do the same on a 32bit arch system with the PKGBUILD from AUR (like I did on 64bit). This time the "m…

Fixed. Thank you very much!

Yes, you can automate a backup on inserting an USB device with RealTimeSync. But if you had a crashed HD, and placed an Image of the data partition back, the last thing that you're…

Thank you!!!

Ignoring a +-1h time shift means that file modification times that are off by exactly one hour are treated the same, and only those. The primary use of this option is to handle [UR…

> From your responses it doesn't, so now I know No, FFS is in fact "case-preserving".

[Quote] Thanks Plerry, I changed to Mirror and it works it should. Regards Tomaz

FreeFileSync: V7.4; Build: Sep 1 2015 - Unicode x64 When sycronizing to HTC M9 from Win-10 via MTP: IPortableDeviceProperties::SetValues failed for WPD_OBJECT_DATE_MODIFIED. HRESUL…

Hello everyone, There is a very common and uncomfortable problem with the RealTimeSync icon in the notification area of the Cinnamon: When started in the current session, either by…

[Quote] There might be many ways to skin a cat, but in the case of your example: * keep your intial left-right folder pair and its "*" include-filter and "/.*/" exclude filter * ad…

I have a USB drive that when i'm updating it will disconnect at random intervals, it then almost immediately comes back (windows acknowledges and brings up the drive again). FreeFi…

To Zenju: This is only a half of true, because two changes are made when an icon of a folder is customized. Generation of a desktop.ini file is only one of them. The second change …

Hi, Help!!! I have a situation where a number of workstations are sharing files from a file server as a database. When no one has a file lock, Free File Sync is apparently not usin…

I have a Powershell script that I use to back up user data from workstations to a server. It works well on most machines but fails with a System.OutOfMemoryException on the one 32-…

I run a couple of simple folder pairs one at a time between a PC (Windows 10) and a laptop (Windows 7) , no batch files. The message I get is 'Cannot create directory lock for.....…

thanks - that did it. I was so intend on finding a 'diff' that I didn't see the 'copy'.

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Hi All, ffs 7.4 Does FFS have any issues with SBS 2011 Server. I have been getting duplicate invoices in MicroBiz since syncing MicroBiz's data directories. Many thanks, -T

Update: My third tip might be wrong. I've been reading back chronologically through the topics in this forum, and unless something has changed, a FreeFileSync job will not process …

[Quote] > I cant find anything to whine about anymore ... It almost sounds like a disappointment ;-)

The ony free tool that I have good experience with is Testdisk + PhotoRec from CGsecurity.

Ok, following your advice, I succeeded in silencing it and making it automatically close the progress window. Is there a way to prevent its opening while starting up?

Thanks Plerry for your answer. However this starts to sound to technical to be an easy and stable solution. If we need to begin doing handwork here and there to be able to use the …

Thanks will give it a try.

What you describe should be possible if you can get FreeFileSync to compile and run on those systems. But for something as simple as you describe, why wouldn't you just use rsync t…

Hi Zenju when I try to update to 7.4 on arch linux I get a md5 checksum error. It seems the file FreeFileSync_7.4_Source.zip on mediafire is corrupt (download size is less compared…

Looks like you inadvertently used the [URL].

The simplest solution is probably to just use the same user in task scheduler like for your manual tests. This reduces the risk of suprises caused by different user permissions.

[Quote] Negative. But the Link was set for NT 4.0. Mea Culpa. It works now.

Deleting the old file before coping over the new file is a step in the overwrite algorithm. Instead of "deleting file" FFS could be set up to use versioning, in which case it's hel…

Could be some AV software that is [URL].