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I have now found that the main list showing source and destinations contents, do in fact scroll with the scrollwheel,but the configuration list does not. So whatever you did to fix…

I'd like to be able to save more than one configuration file (like in the 1st screen shot on SourceForg). Unfortunately, I can only seem to save one configuration file. I am trying…

I think that this issue has already been raised - see [URL]

Anybody, please explain.

Simply drag-select multiple configurations via the mouse in the configuration panel, then run the combined sync. You can also use CTRL + left mouse click to add or remove individua…

Hi, Is there any way to run specific configuration for different user? For example: I want to run two configurations files; one under user normalUser and the other under root user.…

Hi.... I made the most stupid thing I could do: I syncronized (mirror) folder "A"(on USB key) with "R:\" instead of doing the opposite. Even if "Recycled" on delete is active, "R:\…

In general there are two scenarios: 1. you want to move a folder to another location: In this case, move the sync.ffs_db file as well. 2. you want to copy a folder to another locat…

FreeFileSync doesn't change the file modification times, but it's possible that the target drive doesn't store them correctly, so that after synchronization the file still look as …

Thank you for the reply. Since that ticket is more than three years old with no activity, presumably one should not expect a resolution anytime soon. This means that one cannot, in…

In the Help files, check the *Expert Settings* page. It has all the information you need.

I will post One Click Install links for openSUSE 13.1 in another thread: [URL]

Hello and Merry Christmas :) You might have hardlinked files on your main flash drive. In case you aren't aware of the concept of hardlinks, that means that there are multiple file…

Here is the problem 1) My Father likes to buy computers, if he has trouble with one he buys anothe. 2) computer 1: HP laptop windows 7 and was putting all his photos there (he take…

What might be causing this? I am receiving "Error Code 82" when attempting to Mirror files from a hard drive to a flash drive. Some of the files are being copied over successfully,…

Dear all, My FreeFileSync 6.0 is working on my Win 7 64 bits system. It has/had to sync around 720 GB/200.000 files via WLAN to our new Synology DS214se. After many hours it was fi…

Same problem as discussed here: [URL]

Very good program: fast, reliable, easy to use. But now I am facing a problem, I can not use freeFileSync anymore. Version: 6.0 Problem: Even if I only compare a local folder with …

Hi, I installed FFS on my Win7 64-bit desktop PC, to sync a folder on the PC with a folder on my NAS storage (correctly mounted with netdrive as a drive letter). I then created a j…

[Quote] I have the same problem, and as darius80 asked, could FFS do the driver access asynchronously and the UI stays responsive ? It's making my computer unusable during sync as …

Getting this error when trying to Mirror to a thumbdrive that appears to have enough space for files. "Error Code 82: The directory or file cannot be created. (CopyFileEx)" Why am …

Using FreeFileSync 5.2 on a Windows 7 platform, I notice that the "date created" attribute on target files & folders is not overwritten with the source file/folder time stamp. Is t…

> From the description this software is supposed to be a backup software. FFS is primarily synchronization software, but might also be used for backup purposes. You can choose from…

[Quote] What versions have you been using and where did you download them from?

bonjour, si je synchronise c:\toto\tata\ vers d:\data\ il ne crait pas d:\data\toto\tata\ ? comment le faire automatiquement ? un logiciel comme back4sure permet même de créer d:\d…

That's excellent! :) Also big thanks to you for not giving up after the initial bug submission and having the patience of testing and sending all these crash dumps! Updating the SP…

See [URL] for a possible solution. Note that you could just alter the setting to 1822 as you only have a 30 minute problem.

Please consider adding an option to flag the upstream source as read only, and to not attempt to create a lock file there. Currently whenever I'm synchronizing from a read-only net…

A first version of RealtimeSync for OS X can be found here: [URL]

Hi Would like to use the RealTimeSync to sync files(folder) with my NAS and other computers, also usb-stick. But I do not get the trick? Could you please show me how to do the .ffs…

Hi I know the Fedora (x64) build is not as popular as the other linux flavours, but there's a bunch of us out here who would be really appreciative if it could be brought back agai…

Zenju: North American English is my first language. I provided two clear possibilities, why not use one of them? What you indicated is a step in the right direction, but still not …

Hallo! Ich möchte ein file (oder Verzeichnis) mit dem NAS ständig synchron halten. Realtimesync dann auf allen Laptops intallieren, damit am NAS und allen Laptop die files immer sy…

I just compared file content in two directories across two PCs which should have the same content as the PCs have historically been used as backup for each other. FFS shows 800 fil…

Hi, so for a week now we noticed that our ffs wasn't backing up like it usually does on a daily basis through scheduled task. It is able to run and sync files but that it stops and…

Hi, the same problem. Any idea what is wrong? source NAS Open-E, samba sharing, path \\dss\db, problem only file (microsoft database) ddp.mdb, other files no problem target localho…

This is a known problem. The main dialog should be disabled while the progress dialog is shown, but this does not seem to be supported on OS X except when a modal dialog is shown. …

Program has been running beautifully, updated to 5.23, caught a brief glimpse of something like log error. Now doesn't compare. re-typed directories [1 hd, 1 memstick], hit <compar…

These steps have been tried successfully on 32bit Ubuntu ver 13.10 : 1. Launch Synaptic Package Manager. (It's not installed on Ubuntu by default. If you've not got it yet you can …

Thanks for this - I greatly appreciate your help.

Generally spoken: a conflict signals you have a problem! If only one side has changed since the last 2-way sync, there is no conflict, and the newer file will be marked to be copie…

You can find it in ~/Library/Application Support/FreeFileSync. I've updated the help file accordingly.

Dear FFS I invested in Skydrive in the hope/expectation that I could back up my PC to it. In practice it is impossible, and not an intended use of skydrive which is a pity. I have …

So that means permissions on Windows are just broken? If so why is there even the option?

The network device seems to have a problem with FFS's sequence of first creating a .ffs_tmp file followed immediately by a rename operation. You can probably solve this error by di…

Wo ist was nicht sortiert?

I am using version 5.20 and I am using FFS to mirror sync from a NetDrive WebDav server. Every time the clocks get changed (including this past weekend), FFS tries to copy over eve…

Hi, I've read in this forum couple of topics relating to the same error. Here is my work scenario: I use NetDrive to connect to 12 ftp accounts and sync them using ffsync. When I t…

This problem has been fixed: "Prevent temporarily incorrect statistics after unexpected increase in workload" This means that if the bytes to copy increase after comparison (or eve…