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1) Nothing special. Use the same FFS configuration setup and the same locations, should be fine. 2) No, FFS doesn't include any 'duplication detection' features 3) Versioning is pe…

Could it be that Z:\AARC\4\MK\Final is your Versioning location? Or perhaps there are one or more symbolic links pointing to Z:?

I bought a Toshiba Canvio Basics external hard drive and it works. I wish I knew why my Dell Optiplexes won't read or write USB thumb drives.

It's probably 15 years since I last needed to restore deleted files. Back in the day "GetDataBack for NTFS" was the only tool that worked for me.

I’ve been using two ways sync for a year and never had a problem. A couple of days ago something wrong happened and I lost main subdirectories of two important directories on both …

> How can I set them all correctly in accordance with my requirements? Then use the Custom sync variant. In that variant you can customize which actions are taken for the different…

[Quote] Since this is a forum and not a support portal, threads don't get closed. The info stays public so others can search, find answers, and contribute more to the conversation.

Found it Thank you

You could select the first entry of each group, press F2, and prefix with a number.

FAT32 kind of sucks and does have some timestamp limitations. If you run a compare in FFS, check what the timestamps are of the files in Google Drive, they may be outside the range…

Haven't seen it or heard of it. Try uninstalling the current version and rebooting

[Quote] Hello Larcc1 As in [URL] topic before v13 it was written in the FAQ and I think that in the licence as well that it was free for private and commercial use. I've seen this …

Hi Allen, you can download various old versions of FTP Synchronizer from those links. Here you can find version 7.0.15.115 [URL] Here you can find the following versions: 8.0 6.3.1…

For clarity, FreeFileSync (FFS) sync configurations files have either a .ffs_gui or a .ffs_batch extension, never a plain .batch extension. There are two ways to save FFS sync conf…

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Hello, in some cases we are having difficulty logging into Google Drive, the message below appears, we have already removed our Google Chrome profile, changed browsers but it persi…

@xCSxXenon ok, that clears it, many thanks for your explanations!

just tested - working top. many thanks

many thx - working now

Hello All, I have a problem with synchronisation between my personal computer and Google drive. It looks that the FreeFileSync can not delete files from my personal computer, but t…

[Quote] Thanks!

MacOs 14.4.1 When I sync source with backup the date modified is change on backup. When I compare the source file does not match backup modified date creating a never ending proces…

Hello, I have no imagination as to what this message "ERROR_UNEXP_NET_ERR: Unerwarteter Netzwerkfehler. [CopyFileEx]" is trying to tell me and what I should do. This message has be…

Can't be done using FFS on its own

[Quote] Hey I just find a workaround that is not so tedious: Set Include to * and ffs will display all files, then select all files I want and click "include by filter" Then those …

I would guess network saturation over anything else honestly. Is this server syncing with a remote location or only local resources?

I'm going to take a shot at the answer to this question and if my recall is clear the answer is that it is not possible for real-time sync to monitor Google Drive directly. If you …

I'm sorry! It was only an unnoticed duplicate file ! Thanks for your help, anyway!

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Would you be able to provide me with a test login to this FTP server? Perhaps there's some way to fix encoding detection.

Excluding filtering happens *after* it is determined what an item is (lstat).

[Quote] Not possible at this time

[Quote] Nah, I wish! There's even an old post by yours truly: [URL]

Running MacOS Sonoma 14.4.1, FreeFileSync 13.4 Arm (!!) 2/16/24 DonationEdition on an M1 Macbook Pro. I'm a newbie, and have just setup my first batch file to run 4 separate Mirror…

Thank you all of you that oriented me

Hello, when I transfer my files, sst_tpm files appear after an error has been detected during the destination search. In this error, the destination has a different name to the sou…

Thank you very much, in fact on the thread with the second link, someone just explained that they had ignored the message in order to continue the transfer in the same way as I had…

[Quote] It's not the file ID that FFS is checking in this case, but file modification time and size. Or if the file was created or deleted, then this is also considered a "change".…

Nevermind, I found the download link.

[Quote] I tend to agree with Plerry here. The reason you're seeing a 1 second file time difference is (most likely) because the underlying file system is lacking precision. [URL] w…