FreeFileSync Forum

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…

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)