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How can I get notification e-mails on this forum? I couldn't find a way to enable it. There is no notification in the spam folders.

How can I show my own posts on this forum? Is there a way to do it like it works on other forums normally? "Subscriptions", "Watching", "Tracker" etc. seems to mean something else.

Currently the best thing is to "retry" either manually or via script that restarts the sync. One more reason for: [404, Invalid URL: https://sourceforge.net/p/freefilesync/feature-…

OK, thank you WPWoodJr.

Why does the date get changed when doing a Compare?

I didn't see anything about it in the Help file.

Thank you for your reply. I was wondering about this behaviour because it happended on a 1-TB-HD with 600 GB free space and a recycler size of 48 GB. But I did many operations, may…

[Quote] Scroll down on this page [404, Invalid URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/files/freefilesync/v5.12/]

I am not much sure about FreeFileSync but i came across with a website which recently features a remarkable cloud storage feature; File Versioning. You can get file versioning supp…

I used right-click and exclude a number of items directly on main grid via context menu. I would now like to check the list to do some upates. When I click on the funnel in the 'Fi…

Can I make FFS always only to copy the existing files (sync mode e.g. "Update") on the left side to the right side? Without ever overwriting, deleting, changing files on the right …

[Quote] Thanks Zenju, the file association for .ffs_batch is not in place; should I associate it with the main program?

In Windows you can use forfiles to delete files older than x days. For example, I use: [Code] to list and then delete files more than 7 days old. There are more details at [URL]

@srjones I realize speeds aren't guaranteed but it was more than just being slow (at the beginning of this thread). Now Zenju is just trying to help me shave some time off, which I…

OK, thank you.

The new version supports both styles of having a time stamp appended to the file and time stamped subdirectories. See the help file for details.

This is not a FFS problem, but Windows design: Applications beginning with Vista do not have access to "program files" anymore unless they have admin rights. Using FFS's local inst…

Very nice! Can do it now! It's a great Sync tool! Very thanks! It will be better than perfect if you could include "Restore from last sync" or "Restore by date range" in the future…

[Quote] Hi, could you explain what you meant by this? You must run "xhost +local:" from the session you want to run the display on. Xubuntu has the auto start program which is what…

Help file chapter "[URL]" gives a general overview.

Hello there, i am testing freefilesync 5.11 . I read about the sync.ffs_db. For some testings i want to delete a sync.ffs_db file, but i can not find the file. FFS runs on an Windo…

I have *.aspx anywhere in a folder tree. But I only want to include those in root folder. How could I do this (or excludes all *.aspx under subfolders)? Thanks!

Is there a way to make updating of FFS easier, so not to have to download the new version and then install it, but do it somehow within the GUI of FFS like you can do it with other…

> I have re-installed FFS and everything is working now. This could have been caused by a incorrectly setup file filter which excluded most files. In general when working on a new …

>Warning: Significant difference detected: > J:\Pictures\ <-> > I:\ More than 50% of the total number of files will be copied or deleted! This message could be an indication that y…

Argh. Thanks :-) I created the files on the left by copying them from the PC NTFS file system to a USB hard drive formatted as NTFS, then copied from USB hard drive to MAC OS. MAC …

Some additional interesting info here: [URL] 1) Mapped drives get interesting in combination with the "split-token" account, because of a weird dichotomy in the system (in large pa…

There is no automatic way to do this. But you can easily get at the list of files: Just setup FFS view filters to show all the files you are interested in, then either "export as C…

Zenju, thanks for the clarification, I was trying to keep it as simple as possible given the confusion building around the sequence of events necesary to get this to work. It is al…

Many thanks, Zenju, Strange, I meant to had tried the relative path before...but it works, many thanks. I do not get any e-mail notification on this forum, I have changed today my …

> daily sync_ffs_db file is damaged Do you mean it's damaged daily or that it is just damaged right now? The corruption may be caused by an error of the disk/network share where th…

This isn't an FFS issue it's a permissions issue. Be sure that the user you are running as in task scheduler has permissions. Search this forum I know I've seen this issue posted b…

nice one thanks

Exactly

Problem solved. I must have forgotten to press the Portable button in some previous install. Thank you very much for the quick reply.

It's not possible to ignore case, but it shouldn't be a problem: FFS doesn't copy files if it detects they differ in case only, it only renames the target side.

OK, thank you, Zenju.

Yes, symptoms identical to: [URL]

Here's what worked for other users: [404, Invalid URL: https://sourceforge.net/p/freefilesync/support-requests/124/]

Do you think there is a bug?

srjones67 is right, it's probably: [URL]

If it works in GUI mode but not in batch, then there must be a difference in the execution context of the process. Maybe you are starting the batch job as a different user or witho…

I have error 3 Problems in Batch mode. While the same settings work fine in FFS itself. My version is current. Pls. also see here: [URL]

I'm just saying that if it's possible to run a GTK application unattended (what I don't know), then this approach should work for FFS, too. So I wouldn't expect it to be impossible…

Crap ! I just rechecked the version (it was v5.10) ... I must have reinstalled the wrong one. I have installed v5.11 now and it is working fine for the last 2 hours. My mistake ...…

I use FFS "Two Way" synchronization and select "Versioning" in the settings of "Deletion handling" using naming convention "Replace" to a folder named "D:\versioning". Computer A r…

Yes, there's no reboot required. This setting will "lower the resource scheduling priorities of the process (and its threads) so that it can perform background work without signifi…

Many thanks, Zenju. <<<"deletion handling" in synchronization settings "Recycle Bin" is activated there. <<<FFS treats overwritten files the same as deleted files. OK, that means F…

Thanks Zenju.

Check your network permissions.