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SixSigmaGuy

I'm having so many problems using the FreeFileSync tool. Is there anyway I can do a 1-1 chat with someone the help me get through this? I can't talk on the phone because I had a stroke, but 1-1 chat or even email would work for me. I'm trying to keep 2 4TB hard drives in sync, where one is a mirror image that NEVER gets changed except by FreeFileSync. I keep getting messages about conflicts that couldn't possibly happen. E.g., the file changed on both the drives. But it hasn't changed. When I click on the "Switch" button to resolve the problem, it takes me to a complicated screen that takes forever to refresh each time and that has nothing to do with the conflict and no guidance of what to do. I have over 400,000 files on my drives and there's no way I can search for each file in the list. Plus, as soon as I click the "switch" button, the dialog box disappears so I can't even to back to find out what file it was complaining about. But to make it really irritating, there's no option to pause the sync process so I can deal with the problem later and I'm burdened with the non-stop beeping from the message boxes. Clicking "Ignore All" doesn't help; the same problem report keeps returning.

Seems like it should be such a simple and straight forward process to sync two drives, but I'm having so many issues and FreeFileSync is, by far, the best option I've found. I want to make it work for me.

I'm a retired computer and software engineer who had a successful career, but I'm stumped on this one.
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SixSigmaGuy

I don't get it. You replied to me three times so far and didn't try once to help. What on Earth was the point of sending me a link to just points back to my original question?
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xCSxXenon

I don't get it. You replied to me three times so far and didn't try once to help. What on Earth was the point of sending me a link to just points back to my original question? SixSigmaGuy, 05 Jun 2025, 14:06
You double posted, I'm assuming by accident, so I was linking the other thread from here.
Please, don't reply to this thread, as it would off-topic from the already duplicated title