IDrive backup does not see synced files

[Sam]

I use FreeFileSync, and love it, to update a secondary internal drive and then IDrive to backup that drive to the cloud. IDrive does not detect files updated by FreeFileSync unless I force IDrive to scan the whole drive for updates. If I use Windows 11 to copy files to the secondary drive, with drag and drop, then IDrive does see the changes. I understand that Windows logs file changes that IDrive is apparently using to know what to back up. Does FreeFileSync copy files without Windows recording the actions? If so, is there a FreeFileSync option to write files so that Windows will log the changes? Thanks for your help.

[John1234]

Hi,

idrive can be tricky to use with FFS. I'm not a fan of mixing the two.
I prefer cloud drives that let me map a drive in windows and a folder in Linux and Idrive just doesn't work that way.

You might not find too many idrive users here unfortunately.

Windows should be recognizing everything that FFS does.

[Sam]

Many thanks, John. I ran some experiments and sent the results to IDrive support. They say that they are working on it. I agree that it is their problem.