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Hey, I’m pretty new to computers M23 and recently got some new drives and started building a setup to help me stay organized with video editing and backups. So far, I’ve got an aut…

Hi There, Not able to see all the threads information, what exactly being copied and how much percent completed for each theard, if 10 threads are being used to copy files in paral…

Many thanks. I am new to Linux, intentionally taking baby steps and trying to avoid assumptions, hence my need for confirmation. I shall be going ahead with SFTP.

I am backing up my movies and after it gave me a error I told it to ignore then when finished I compared the them again and about 6 movie folder show up to be synced I click and ge…

Hi, You can accomplish this by using the real-time synchronization feature of the software. You can read about it in the documentation.

Or, you can like I do use the Microsoft Windows open SSH services that come with Windows as an optional add-on. This way you can use SFTP. [URL] These are better. [URL]

Hallo, Please, is there a way to disable saving the LastRun.ffs_gui file if I don't need it? I haven't been able to figure anything out. Thank you very much. Marti

So I've just tried copying a shortcut to ALL C AND D.ffs_real in my startup folder. It still doesn't work!

That is definitely a good idea, trust but verify. I can say that I have never had an issue with deleting any and all temp/cache files from thousands of customer computers over the …

In the comparison results, you'll see two actions for a move: a delete and a copy. It will look like this: [Attachment] If you hover your cursor over it, it will correct identify a…

Likely your left and right base location are (already) empty, and you are (already) in the "New" mode. If that is the case, your "New" icon is not active. > Secondly: can I select …

Thanks for the support information xCSxXenon, I will be more patient :) Regards Acom1c

Whenever NAS network connection becomes not reachable (drive goes down due to power save) FFS 14.3 will not start anymore and create a .dmp on desktop. It happens only when NAS dri…

> Where in FFS can I configure two batch jobs to automatically start when my PC reboots? You can/do not do that in FFS. You use the Windows Task Scheduler (one task per sync job) a…

Surface devices have x86/x64 emulation built-in, so the software should work fine. Try it and let us know [URL]

[Quote] "Six or half a dozen" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ For all intents and purposes, for most end users, these are the same To the OP, you could also change the security permissions to allow acce…

Yes, but recently I tried the same version on a different distribution, and it seemed to work correctly. This suggests that it might be a missing dependency or configuration on my …

Destination SSD overheating perhaps? Try monitoring it with CrystalDiskInfo.

Checkmarking "Ignore Errors", "Run minimized" and "Autoclose" when saving your *.ffs_batch sync configuration should do the job. See [URL].

[Quote] Thank you both for your responses, you guys have been a great help and I certainly appreciate it! I totally missed the “RTS: Run as Service” button which brings up Plerry’s…

Did a Sync today from Local NAS to Local HDD, and I get the following errors on 75 of 700 files. Thoughts? Cannot rename "X:\folder\Camera Roll Backup\20220805_123555-4ce8.ffs_tmp"…

Filling out questionaires, creating quotes, or endless "negotiation" to cater to a company's idiosyncratic internal workflows would be the most pointless use of my time, when there…

Just in case anyone else gets this error. In this case it is because of synchronising files from a Linux platform to a windows platform. In every instance of the error there were 2…

Hi @alone The page is online now but it's not complete. Here is the url: [URL] There's a contact address at the bottom and if you use that you can request whatever you want in the …

Many thanks to Plerry for the explanation. Too bad I can't realize my idea with FFS. But maybe the software will be extended with backup functions in the future. R. H.

I found the files in the recycle bin of the external drive I was transferring to along with the "sync.ffs_lock" file. The files were not located on my pc but were transferring from…

Hi, i tried to install your software on a Windows Server 2012 R2, to sync a folder to an sftp directory. Which Version is the correct version i can use? I Could install the latest …

Here is the link to the SSH SFTP server software that I use on my Android tablets and phone. [URL] Try using sftp vs cable and you may get better. Results.

I have recently accomplished a fresh build of Ubuntu Mate 24.04 on two different machines and installed FFS on both. The issue I have with both builds is that there are a few subdi…

I solved the problem by first doing a hand transfer and then running a mirror copy for verification. That, it went well and lasted 45mn. Obviously freefilesync has some difficultie…

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I've found the easiest way to eliminate these issues (with the GDrive docs and sheets) is to add an "extension" to the files name (upon creation, or rename it via browser/myDrive, …

Awesome! Thanks. I've been using FFS for a couple of years now and clearly have not dug into all of its capabilities. I still don't understand why the real-time file count displaye…

Thanks! I did these amendments and added an 'automatic retry' with 'count' at 2 and several seconds of 'delay' between the two. It works now! Much appreciated

[Quote] The "item" is blank, but a mouseover of that blank item does show a *potential* file name, to be, if you will (& even if not particularly appropriate, like with an Update, …

(Also noted here, [URL]. And your picture link doesn't look to be valid. You can upload it here, directly.)

é shouldn't be an issue (to FFS). So maybe it is something the way that [URL] is presenting that particular (or similar ?) characters (which you wouldn't really expect to be an iss…

The progress display window opens and it flashes momentarily. The progress window is then displayed as just a white block with some of the text at the bottom, but no X-Y progress %…

[Quote] Thank you! At least I can confirm it's still the same presumably code-gen bug, even with the latest VC compiler (two updates since the initial crash report). Alas no update…

FreeFileSync 10.11 : Last FreeFileSync version supporting Windows XP SP3 and Vista As always, this is my most favorite software, and the best software developer I ever got software…

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It seems that renaming a file in Windows actually results in two actions reported by the Windows API that RTS monitors. It's likely that it reports a new file with the new name and…

Screenshot? Which version, OS, and language?

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Thanks. Don't you face that issue? Which versions of glib and libidn2 are you building with? If I remove both #undef G_GNUC_UNUSED, then everything builds fine (libidn 2.3.8 and gl…

Hi everyone :) Thank you in advance for your help. I am using FreeFileSync for the first time in order to create a backup of my entire Dropbox folder to an external hard drive. I a…

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Hmm, here are the features: auto-updater parallel file copy email notifications zip portable zip So, to your point, a few nice little things.

If you never want to delete files from your destination location that do not, or no longer exist on your source location use, as xCxXenon describes, use the Update sync variant. If…

If you find this to be a common occurrence with software, you're the problem