I just tried synchronizing two external drives. There was about 1Tb of data going one way and 600Gb going the other way. I've done this in the past, so I didn't think too much about it and let it run over night. I woke up to a couple of errors, but nothing that stood up. I ignored them and the process continued. When it was done I did a quick review of the log and again, nothing stood up. I closed it and I went to finder to check the folders and found out one of the disks was completely erased. The other drive seems to have all the files. I am not panicking because I have a 3rd copy of the data and the data is no too sensitive.
Did I click something I shouldn't have? Should I be worried bout using FreeFileSync?
I'm on a MacBook Pro M4 Max, MacOs Tahoe 26.5.1, FreeFileSinc 14.6 ARM64.
Hard drive erased during synchronization.
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Yes, you clicked something you shouldn't have.
No, I don't know what.
Only be worried if you don't trust yourself, FFS has yet to be the cause of this in the last seven years I've been on the forum
No, I don't know what.
Only be worried if you don't trust yourself, FFS has yet to be the cause of this in the last seven years I've been on the forum
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When in doubt, run (just) a Compare, review the proposed sync actions, and only if those proposed sync actions match your intended sync actions click Synchronize.
