unattended error icon when all files match?

[databoxer]

I have never noticed this behavior before, but now when I run a compare (based on file time/date) and all the files compare successfully, the "unattended error" icon (red circle with an 'x' in it) appears. If I look at the log, it says that the comparison finished successfully, with the correct number of items found, so why does the error icon appear? Is this behavior new? It seems very odd to me. I like seeing the green "success" icons.

Any help or explanation would be appreciated!

[Zenju]

Seems like you've set "ignore errors" and an error did occur.

[databoxer]

But what error? The log says everything completed successfully. If there's something actually wrong, I want to know about it, but I don't want to see the error icon if everything worked ok

[Zenju]

Screenshots?

[databoxer]

Good point. Attached is a screenshot, where I ran just one of my GUI batch comparisons, no errors (as shown in the log) but the red X is there. You can see that all of them have the same red X from prior runs.

Thanks!

[Zenju]

When you mouse-hover over the x, what does the popup message say? also what happens when you click on it?

[databoxer]

When I hover or click, it says
"Stopped
Items processed: 0 (0 bytes)
Total time: 00:00:00"

[databoxer]

If there are any file mismatches, I get the green check mark after doing the Sync. So the red X seems to indicate no mismatches ("nothing to do"), but I would expect more of positive indicator. I believe that I used to get the green check in such cases, but I just upgraded to the latest version, so maybe that's the issue (?)

FWIW, I am synching between my C: drive and an SMB NAS share (Synology), which I have done for years

[databoxer]

I did some more playing around, and I think I understand what is going on. This is a brand new laptop, and I had copied all my folders over from the old laptop, which is synched to the NAS. So I then ran an FFS compare to make sure that I got everything. Since all the files matched, there was nothing to do. Once I updated one file on the NAS and ran a synch, all the results turned to green checks! That is, apparently FFS wants to do a single synch before it will allow a green check result. Strange behavior -- seems like "all matched" should give a green check result, but in any case I'm happy now. Thanks for your help!

[Zenju]

That's indeed a little bug! When there's "nothing to sync", only the last sync time is set to "now", but the old sync status is preserved. But in your case there is no old sync status! FreeFileSync then shows the red checkmark, which is just the default status value.