I use FFS to backup some folder pairs that are always significantly different. As such, for each of these sync profiles, FFS always does 4 things I would really like to prevent it from doing for these profiles:
1. Shows an warning icon in the FFS GUI.
2. Adds the string "[Warning]" to each log's filename.
3. Adds the following to the top of each corresponding log: "Completed with warnings"
4. Includes the following warning in each corresponding log: "Warning: The following folders are significantly different. Please check that the correct folders are selected for synchronization."
Being able to disable this warning on specific profiles will constitute a substantial improvement to FFS by removing all this noise and making the GUI and logs more useful.
FR: Allow user to disable "The following folders are significantly different." per sync profile
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You can (at least presently) not enable or disable the Significantly Different warning per sync configuration.
Instead, you can use two (or more) different global settings for your different syncs.
Make a copy of your GlobalSettings.xml file, for the sake of example named NoSignificantDifferenceWarnings.xml, and open that latter file with a plain text editor (e.g. Notepad++).
In the <OptionalDialogs> section in
<WarnSignificantDifference Show="true"/>
change "true" in "false", and save the file under its existing name.
When now invoking FFS to run a sync configuration that should not give you a Significant Difference warning, tell FFS to use your NoSignificantDifferenceWarnings.xml global settings file rather than the default GlobalSettings.xml file, as described here, item 5.
You don't need to launch such a sync from a command prompt or script.
Instead you can simply create a shortcut per *.ffs_gui or *.ffs_batch sync configuration, and change the shortcut's command-line
from just e.g. [PathToSyncConfiguration]\DtoE.ffs_gui
into FreeFileSync.exe [PathToSyncConfiguration]\DtoE.ffs_gui [PathToYourCustomGlobalSettingsFile]\NoSignificantDifferenceWarnings.xml
and save that shortcut again.
Instead, you can use two (or more) different global settings for your different syncs.
Make a copy of your GlobalSettings.xml file, for the sake of example named NoSignificantDifferenceWarnings.xml, and open that latter file with a plain text editor (e.g. Notepad++).
In the <OptionalDialogs> section in
<WarnSignificantDifference Show="true"/>
change "true" in "false", and save the file under its existing name.
When now invoking FFS to run a sync configuration that should not give you a Significant Difference warning, tell FFS to use your NoSignificantDifferenceWarnings.xml global settings file rather than the default GlobalSettings.xml file, as described here, item 5.
You don't need to launch such a sync from a command prompt or script.
Instead you can simply create a shortcut per *.ffs_gui or *.ffs_batch sync configuration, and change the shortcut's command-line
from just e.g. [PathToSyncConfiguration]\DtoE.ffs_gui
into FreeFileSync.exe [PathToSyncConfiguration]\DtoE.ffs_gui [PathToYourCustomGlobalSettingsFile]\NoSignificantDifferenceWarnings.xml
and save that shortcut again.
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Thanks Plerry. Unfortunately, doing so would ruin my workflow, as I find the FFS GUI very useful to manually run desired sync configs one after another within the FFS GUI. Having to terminate FFS and then relaunch it with a different global settings file would break my workflow.You can (at least presently) not enable or disable the Significantly Different warning per sync configuration.
Instead, you can use two (or more) different global settings for your different syncs... Plerry, 01 Jul 2026, 07:59
Hopefully this FR can be implemented.
