1.How Do I Set Automatic Synchronization by Second, Minute, Hour, Day, Week, or Month?
2.How Do I Automatically Delete Files in a Specified Directory at the Set Time?
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> 1.How Do I Set Automatic Synchronization by Second, Minute, Hour, Day, Week, or Month?
You develop and verify a sync configuration in the FreeFileSync (FFS) GUI, and the save that sync configuration as a *.ffs_batch file.
Then you automate your task via the Task Scheduler (Windows) or as a cronjob (Linux/Mac),
as described here.
Automation of its startup is, and very likely will not be integrated into FFS itself.
> 2.How Do I Automatically Delete Files in a Specified Directory at the Set Time?
FFS is a synchronization tool. Just deletion (as far as not part of a synchronization action) is not a supported action in FFS, and likely will not become one either, because it is not a synchronization task. You can do it manually in FFS, but there are more convenient ways outside FFS. So you can best use another tool.
You develop and verify a sync configuration in the FreeFileSync (FFS) GUI, and the save that sync configuration as a *.ffs_batch file.
Then you automate your task via the Task Scheduler (Windows) or as a cronjob (Linux/Mac),
as described here.
Automation of its startup is, and very likely will not be integrated into FFS itself.
> 2.How Do I Automatically Delete Files in a Specified Directory at the Set Time?
FFS is a synchronization tool. Just deletion (as far as not part of a synchronization action) is not a supported action in FFS, and likely will not become one either, because it is not a synchronization task. You can do it manually in FFS, but there are more convenient ways outside FFS. So you can best use another tool.
