FreeFileSync Forum

After wracking what's left of my brain--and taking into account Zenju's information--I decided to run a couple of tests. Syncing 90 GB of data from an external hard drive to a seco…

thank you Zenju, with 3.14 all it's ok sorry for the disturb

No currently there is no such option in FFS.

The issue discussed here is about a certain lockup when writing the lock file. Message "waiting while ..." however means that the other file is still used by another FFS instance. …

Just downloaded Gladinet client with a Box.net account. Can't reproduce the issue, "works for me".

FFS only compares files by content that have the same name (= same position in folder hierarchy). Renamed files will (depending on settings) result in a creation and a deletion, or…

There is no priority, a file has to match both include and exclude filters. Therefore setting include filter to "\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail\*" will suffice. Or just set …

Use "start /wait", this will ensure the call executes synchronously.

Thank you , that works well. And thank you for developing such a great backup program. Roger

RealtimeSync doesn't use Windows Task Scheduler to start sync jobs. All it does is execute the commandline at certain times, which in most cases just starts a FFS batch job. Theref…

Unfortunately not. Windows requires the user to have privilege "SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege" in order to create links. This privilege, by default, is only given to administrators…

>'the file was not processed by last synchronisation So it seems this is exactly what has happened. At the time of last sync there were files that were relevant for, but did not pa…

Zenju sent me your request. I am french and live near Tours, not in Marseille, sorry. Perhaps can I help you to translate your software in french. I don't know it.. Please, give me…

> * * * No prob. > relative path, is it possible ? Yes, also working. Any path should do, even macros (e.g. environment var) are supported just as with FFS directory fields.

Unfortunately I'm not able to reproduce this issue neither. The correct number is calculated by subtracting "bytes transferred" from "total bytes to copy". "Error" is shown if this…

I didn't fully understand the example, but FFS's behavior when scanning a directory is simple: Everything is scanned, all files, all folders, including subfolders and files beyond.…

Indeed a small bug. Thanks for the info, fixed for next release! -Zenju

Whitespace needs to be in quotes like: "C:\Program Files\FreeFileSync.exe" "C:\Sync Job.ffs_batch"

Thanks! I'm not sure why Windows Search couldn't find it by name but sure enough it's there.

> Obviously this gives some issues when syncing I'd see to file some bug report concerning this. I wouldn't be surprised to see other applications have issues when they expect file…

Hi, I had the same problem with FreeFileSync_v3.11, but with mounted Truecrypt Volumes. Inst. of FreeFileSync_v3.12_beta2 has fixed it. :) Just wanted to say. Siutsch.

I had the same problem.... Could you please update the make file, so people newbie like me would not have the same problems.

Understood.

Zenju, I feel like a donkey. Indeed one of the folder had an extra space in the name and I did not see it. I've been trying for weeks to figure this out. Thanks for your help. This…

> But no-one has done anything with the files This is strange. FFS doesn't touch file neither. When files are overwritten, the db file is updated accordingly. What does this confli…

> Is this right? No, <Automatic> mode has exactly the same semantics like Synctoy: i.e. creates, changes and deletions are propagated. Perhaps you just should give it a try ;) -Zen…

Ah! Silly me. I was doing lexicographic ordering in my mind when I read it (as a directory listing sorted by name would do). It might make thing easier to call it 3.04, etc. Then t…

Just pass a *.ffs_real configuration file as second parameter. This will prevent showing the RTS start dialog and begin work immediately.

Thanks for the quick reply and info. Yes, working fine now, needed a full round of synching. A very nice piece of software.

Actually I haven't tried this myself, but as this is not related to FFS, but about starting any program at Ubuntu start, Google should have an answer.

In summary the new DST handling works as follows (hopefully explaining the observed behavior): When traversing FAT/FAT32 files with FFS the first time, additional metadata is saved…

I'm not sure how to "count" the number of logfiles. Probably traverse the log- dir and count all files that match a reg-ex-like pattern. Then sort it by date and delete the oldest …

This definitely solved my issue. I unchecked both global settings "Copy locked files" and "Copy filesystem permissions" and now everything is working as expected. Maybe the fact th…

The precompiled FFS version is based on "libgtkmm-2.4-dev". You could try " libgtkmm-2.4-1" to make it run. Alternatively there is also a .deb package available: [URL]

I will give that a ry and report my results

ok, I see, thank you for the answer. Well, I'm still interested in having the size, so I'll impatiently wait for next version to see if it will be included :-)

Thx much!

Yes, it will be fixed with v3.10

OK. I can understand the logic. Thanks for your quick response and a for a GREAT product.

I have statically linked this new library to the binaries and uploaded the tar.gz again. Sorry for the inconvenience. -Zenju

SFTP is not supported directly. FFS accesses files via ordinary fopen/fclose-calls. Therefore you'll need a wrapper that redirects SFTP to a regular directory structure. -Zenju

Zenju, Thank you I will try first option as it is the preferred workaround method for me now. Regards

OK, I see... I understand your reasoning. I realize I have been more focused on mirroring/backup. I rarely or ever use syncing. Along the years I almost always used these kind of t…

Excellent! Thank you!

RealtimeSync does not have options to exclude specific directories. The best solution is to emulate exclusion by "not including", i.e. specify a list of directories for monitoring.…

What is the problem with Samba? I haven't explicitly tested with SAMBA, but just did a sync against a Windows share using Virtual Box specific means which worked fine. So I wouldn'…

> weird characters in their file name Quite unlikely. The means to open a file is via the CreateFile C-API command which uses wide char Unicode characters. Next bytes are read via …

Interesting, could you post the full error message? I need to find out at which step during copying it throws this error. Usually "access denied" is related to file attributes or t…

>This shouldn't be necessary. RTS waits until all folders are available before executing the commandline (i.e. starting sync) But If I deleted the folder It might never be availabl…

I understand. Nevertheless if you have something I can work with at some point, don't hesitate to inform me. Best regards