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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?

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…