I use FFS to back up many of my personal files onto 3 seperate drives, one secondary internal SSD and two external HDDs connected via USB, one all the time, and one in my glovebox which I bring inside once a month ("off site" backup.)
Recently I went to do a backup after a while of forgetting about it, and FFS reported no files to sync, even though I *know* I have downloaded a number of new files and added them to the synced folders since the last time. I tried to reinstall FFS, and I also went around and deleted all the sync.ffs_db files. However, it didn't help. Manually checking I can clearly see that some folders are different between the external drives and source folders. How can I solve this?
FFS not detecting changes?
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Are you sure the locations set in FFS are still correct?
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Lol yes, I checked that, but they also haven't changed since the last time, and additionally I could observe the sync.ffs_db files getting re-created.Are you sure the locations set in FFS are still correct? xCSxXenon, 07 Nov 2021, 18:34
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Well the external drive may get a different letter, Windows can be weird with that sometimes. Are the view filters at the bottom of the sync window selected correctly?
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Yes, and yes. I always check the letters before syncing, and yes the view filters are set up correctly, that's one of the things I checked. Also, due to the way the sync is set up, it should detect a large amount of things to sync if the letters are incorrect. But they are.
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Well if the letter selected for the source doesn't exist, it wouldn't find anything to sync. Trying clicking "new" in FFS and re-create the sync setup
