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Maybe it's the same error? [URL] If not, you can find detailed error info in the Windows event viewer.

If I get a chance I'll try to recreate the action that resulted in my files being deleted. I do know I did a compare, then unchecked some folders I did not want to sync. Don't reme…

As a workaround, you might want to look into using the FileTimeTolerance parameter (see the FFS Help), which can help you bridge the "gap" of 1 hour.

I'm posting an answer in the other thread.

The problem is, whenever either background or foreground color is hard-coded by the program, the other color needs to be hard-coded, too, to support accessibility. In the progress …

You nailed it There was one more folder with FFS but it wasnt installed only copied from his old installation I pointed the schedule to the old program and used the new batch file …

When after a comaprison the content of e.g. 10 files is shown as none equal, what is the best / easiest way - if you want to keep all of these files and you do not want to overwrit…

open the software and go to help file, look there. i was searching for it on the website. :P

It does. Unless you've set the batch job option to show the process dialog or set the error handling to popup.

Hi, thanks again for the effort and the insight on backup systems. Very good work, problem solved.

I have setup freefilesync with batch files on my Windows 8 Based Home Server it have set the basic scheduled task and made sure when creating the batch files i have selected Show D…

Hm. You could of course create a new scheduled task that runs a batch script that kills the process FreeFileSync_x64.exe if it's running, and schedule that task to be executed 2 ho…

You can sync specific files only, but FFS will consider the checked status (see middle grid), not what is currently visible. The next version will add an "include" context menu opt…

> After migrating to version 5.2 You mean 5.20? > Cannot open directory [...]xxxxx.jpg' This looks like a file, not directory. What does Windows Explorer say? > which makes sense a…

> you could use a .vbs script for example For example "HideConsole.vbs" located in the FFS installation directory. > the batch file does not stop until the first sync job is over I…

Run FFS as administrator or disable its features that require elevated privileges (in global settings).

> this question Hm, I count *five* questions :) ... but they're good ones about program reliability: When fail-safe file copy is active, FFS will first try to find a temp name that…

@Error Code 1300: Start FFS with admin rights, or disable all options in FFS that require admin rights (e.g. VSS, copying NTFS permissions, creating symlinks, ...)

[Quote] thank you srjones67! it worked like a charm, what a great program!!!

Thanks a lot!

> Can this work or are there other suggestions? This can work, but is not built into FFS. You can write a batch-script that checks if the VPN connection is up and running, (e.g. by…

If you sync left location C:\folderA\folderB\folderC\ to right location D\folderE\, all files and (sub)folders of C:\folderA\folderB\folderC\ will sync to D\folderE\ in their folde…

[Quote] Yes, I knew this sounded SO familiar and I remember covering exactly this ground - and now I know why this has bubbled up again. My colleague mentioned later, after asking …

All good now!

Ah, that did the trick, fixed now thank you.

In the meantime I tried the same procedure with Synkron. The above mentioned behaviour did not happen. So IMHO it seems to be connected with the kind of file access FreeFileSync us…

Hi, I get the error 53 about a missing network share. It is \\Fritz.box\fritz.nas\Toshiba-ExternalUSB3-0-01\backup\ but FFS complains about not finding \\Fritz!nas\fritz.nas\Toshib…

When I run a synchronise update, I immediately get error message "Cannot open directory "R:\Config.Msi". Error Code 5: Access denied (openDir). If I ignore, update appears to compl…

Karan- this is a "feature" of Mac OS X 10.7 and later called GateKeeper. It prevents unsigned apps from being launched on the computer. It's a security measure. You can work around…

Got it. Will see the final test.

FreeFileSync simply ignores symbolic links within folders I want to be copied. I don't know how to tell FFS to copy them as links (i.e. not the data inside the link, but just the l…

ok! Thanks.

I have run FFS succesfully for many moons, but suddenly it has gone on the fritz. I am getting this error: Cannot set directory lock for 'C:\Users\M\Pictures\'. Cannot read file 'C…

Hello, I got a similar issue. Maybe the issue is related to [404, Invalid URL: https://sourceforge.net/p/freefilesync/bugs/132/?page=0] [URL] Before receiving the Error Code 183, I…

I have a Dell Laptop and a desktop pc. Both machines were dual boot setups (Winxp Home and Win 7 Pro) I could use free file sync with no problems when both pc's were booted in xp I…

will be ever implemented this feature?

> FreeFileSync 5.17 Changelog > [...] > Show moved files in same category as updated files Awesome, not exactly what I wanted but it solves my problem!

Thank you for this explanation. I agree, symlinks can produce complex situations. The issue above already arises if the user decides to delete file.txt and you can just let it happ…

Small update. I've looked today a bit further to the problem and I managed to fix most of the problems. 1. For the problem that caused FFS to be unable to locate the network folder…

I've revised the design of RTS error handling: the program will not show a timed modal error dialog anymore, but instead will only show a blinking system tray icon. If the user dou…

If you run with default settings, i.e. "fail-safe file copy" on, then you can be sure that no files are written to your target location while an error occurred at any stage of the …

Ok, I figured it out. It might be obvious to people a bit smarter than me but I'm only a lowly mechanical engineer... Clicked on "Show hidden icons" and exited the job there. Thank…

FFS 5.16 on Ubuntu 12.04LTS 64 bit FFS fails to find the folders I drag and drop into the Folder fields. It seems to prefix /home/john/ in front of the path. I cannot edit the fiel…

OK, so I'm not very good at scripting but this worked for me. if exist \\vbox-2010\cssdir goto direxists goto nodir :direxists C:\Users\DS\Documents\freefilesync\css_SyncSettings.f…

(New FFS User) I have 4 user pairs constructed for a Sync run Configuration. It appears from experimentation that any folder/file de-selection in the "COMPARE", holds only for the …

I take it the files you want don't have any similar group of extension (that isn't used also on non-desired files). However the Exclude filter does offer a minimum/maximum "size" s…

does it work for files or it is just for folders?

The modal dialog was apparently the problem. I didn't have the 'Close progress dialog' option set for 'On completion'. I originally had the scheduled task set up to 'Run whether us…

It seems this is a problem of the new Windows Vista IFileDialog directory picker which by default does not show the "Fonts" folder. OTOH with the older < XP SHBrowseForFolder the "…