FreeFileSync Forum

First of all, you must be sure that "Two-way" is selected in Synchronization Settings. Secondly, after the first "two-way" sync, FFS creates a database file (sync.ffs_db) in each f…

Great, it works just fine! I hope other users won't be inconvenienced...

Once you are at this point ... 1) Don't use any software that would write anything to the stick It might overwrite any data still on your stick and make it unrecoverable. 2) Use an…

HI Zenju :), Just to let you know your adjustment in FFS v5.23 worked a treat no wrapping to second line unless files being deleted were over 9999 Many Thanks

[Quote] Well... :) the 5.22 also has the "contract violation" bug, which I assume to be incorrect handling of an out of memory situation, so you're probably just lucky. Anyway 5.23…

I found the problem. There somehow is a stuck FFS process, in the background. It became visible when I clicked on "Show processes from all users", and the owner of the process is l…

[Quote] I just resolved my problem with Windows 8.1 Task Scheduler failing to do Sync. The problem appeared to be that when executed through the Task Scheduler the FreeFileSync pro…

When I was running Windows 8, FreeFileSync would Sync folders between two computers over my Local Network when scheduled as a task in Windows 8 Task Scheduler. At the time I was us…

The goal is for one way transfer of the result files of simulations, between folders at different locations. Before the sync of each result file - an external analysis program has …

Ah thanks Zenju and srjones67. This is what I was looking for.

Lately (since about two latest versions) FFS hasn't worked on my system anymore. When I hit compare, it returns almost immediately and shows no differences, no matter which folders…

After our test , Real Time Monitor under (1) Rescan once when the program starts (2) When a file transaction will Rescan There is no way to turn off "(2) When a file transaction wi…

You can pay for FFS, too, if you want ;) (check the symlink handling in comparison settings)

The two database formats are basically incompatible due to the difference in handling case sensitivity between Windows/Linux and (probably( different file id representations.

All finished good with no negative numbers, so the correction seems to be good. Thanks again! The job takes shorter than usual because it is synced but will inform here about any c…

does nobody have an idea? the thing is that i didnt change any file in both directories, i just copied die data from one system to the other. but freefilesync now says that all fil…

can someone please compile a .deb version of freefilesync for those of us using debian or at the very least give me an easy to follow guide on how to do it myself

Thank you for the idea. Testing it this way now :) I've noticed that when I run one folder test and watch Networking tab in Task Manager, it shows steady 3% utilization. When I run…

Using FFS 5.22 10/1/13 64 bit build... Just noticed that there is a discrepancy: when try to sync either of 2 folders that are on local and USB drives that are identical with 131 i…

It seems that i have sold my problem.

Excuse my delay. Thanks again Zenju.

I found these paths (which are apparently there by default): \System Volume Information\ \$Recycle.Bin\ \RECYCLER\ \RECYCLED\ *\desktop.ini *\thumbs.db I compared the source and de…

As the title says. I have an Asus Transformer that I'd like to sync to, but FreeFileSync just says the folder name is invalid. Is there a way to do it?

> FFS is only detecting moved files in mirror mode after I've already done at least one sync Yes, syncing at least once is required. This isn't about performance, but a logical req…

Why is FreeFileSync doing a total backup? Does the USB drive not properly save file modification times?

I'm getting following error in ffs log: [9:16:53] Error: Unable to move "Q:\slave\fileroot\RecycleBin.ffs_tmp\somedir\someotherdir\Chapter 1\Chapter_1\Ch1_expt_e.ppt" to the recycl…

[Quote] Sorry for the confusion. I just edited the log post to make that more clear. Thanks again for adding the retry function. I can't wait to see it actually used as I keep chec…

Sorry I just noticed I was using an old version and now multiple folder pairs are supported, I cant find a way to delete this topic.

I had tried that before, but for some reason I was getting a weird "non recognized executable" error (or something close to that. Probably something got corrupt when extracting or …

Win 7 64bit UAC off FFS 5.22 I have used FFS in the past on other machines to do this same thing but it is not working now. I am trying to sync 2 drives (E+F) but when I click comp…

I found a package for SuSE [URL] but did not try it myself

Nice work on this last version (5.22) Zenju! This fixed the URI drag and drop issue for me on Linux. Much appreciated! I could not be without this program! It's saved me years of w…

Detection of moved files is now available for mirror variant, too: [404, Invalid URL: https://sourceforge.net/p/freefilesync/feature-requests/299]

I used the Help file and the Discussions I could find, but still kept getting a bunch of weird error messages to the effect that there were errors in the configuration file setting…

Thanks. I´ve found out it was a config problem of the Win scheduler. In a desparate attempt to solve the problem I´ve changed an option in the general tab in the Win Scheduler to "…

Automatic retry has been implemented for the next version. This should handle all remaining cases of startup failures as well as other intermittent network problems: [404, Invalid …

The three variants of FFS on Windows, Linux, OS X implement the platform-specific default behavior (strictly speaking it's file system behavior): 1. Windows/NTFS stores file names …

I have two terminal Servers(A&B) using Network Load Balancing(NLB Cluster), both are Windows 2008R2. I want to sync the desktop for any user that connects to the server Cluster, th…

I have 2 laptops, old one 32bit XP, new one 64bit Win7. I use a Network Drive and FFS to keep them synched. FFS now tells me the destination drive on new laptop is full. I now see …

Thank you, I didn't expect a response that quick! Works perfect!

The default Win32 error message is really misleading. I've patched this to let FFS show ERROR_ELEVATION_REQUIRED instead which is what the real problem is: "The requested operation…

Running Windows 7 64-bit Thanks

bah.. sorry found the answer @ [URL]

Version: 5.21 Environment: Windows XP Mode - virtual machine Windows 7 - host machine Problem: I started to compare big folders (more than 20,000 items) on the C: drive of the virt…

Have a look at your filter settings, thumbs.db files are excluded by default.

It depends: If it is a one-time action you can simply sync with FFS, then delete the file on the left via the FFS main dialog. If you want to do this frequently you can setup two b…

settings > deletion handling > "permanent" I think I helped myself - hopefully my ramblings helps other too :-)

If you're still on Windows XP I can understand your request since the GUI feedback for file operations is very limited on XP. You might want to take a look at this program: teracop…

Afaik, this is not possible. The only switch for controlling the last logfile is in globalsettings.xml and is about controlling its max filesize.

Can you copy files manually with a windows explorer instance running with highest privileges (as administrator) to your FTP?