I use FFS to backup my music library. Love the program -- thank you so much!
One problem I encounter though is that I will occasionally modify file
metadata for many files. When I go to synchronize the backup drive, I need to
overwrite perhaps 100GB but have only 10GB of free space on the drive. The
synchronization accordingly is interrupted every time 10GB is overwritten. I
abort and then hit synchronize again. Is there any way to allow this to happen
automatically? The drive isn't going to run out of space, no? Files are only
being overwritten, the total number is not going up.
Many thanks for your help and thanks again for a lifesaver of a program! :)
Disk Space & Overwrite
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If the problem is only "intermittent lack of space" but the synchronization is
expected to fit in the end, then there are two things you need to take care
of:
1. Turn of "transactional file copy" in global settings. This will skip creating a temporary file, but overwrite directly.
2. Make sure you're not using recycle bin for deletion or versioning into a folder located on the same drive. This guarantees that deletion and overwrite really free disk space.
expected to fit in the end, then there are two things you need to take care
of:
1. Turn of "transactional file copy" in global settings. This will skip creating a temporary file, but overwrite directly.
2. Make sure you're not using recycle bin for deletion or versioning into a folder located on the same drive. This guarantees that deletion and overwrite really free disk space.
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Awesome, thanks so much, will try this today.
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Unfortunately this did not work. Here is what I tried:
1. In FFS Global Settings, I unchecked the box for transaction file copy.
2. In Recycle Bin > Properties, I checked the box for "Do not move files to the Recycle Bin/ Remove files immediately when deleted." This ought to simply turn the Recycle Bin off, so to speak, no?
I thought it would work, but after beginning a synchronization consisting of
346GB of overwriting -- number of files and size will remain the same -- to a
drive with 14 GB of free space, I got the error after 14GB was transferred and
the process stopped.
Any suggestions/thoughts? Thanks again.
1. In FFS Global Settings, I unchecked the box for transaction file copy.
2. In Recycle Bin > Properties, I checked the box for "Do not move files to the Recycle Bin/ Remove files immediately when deleted." This ought to simply turn the Recycle Bin off, so to speak, no?
I thought it would work, but after beginning a synchronization consisting of
346GB of overwriting -- number of files and size will remain the same -- to a
drive with 14 GB of free space, I got the error after 14GB was transferred and
the process stopped.
Any suggestions/thoughts? Thanks again.
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> In Recycle Bin > Properties, I checked the box
I was talking about a different setting: In FFS's sync settings you can
specify a variant for deletion. Here you should use "delete permanently" or
"versioning to a directory on another volume."
If you turn of the recycle bin system-wide FFS will probably not notice this
and still buffer the files in an intermediate directory before attempting to
recycle them.
I was talking about a different setting: In FFS's sync settings you can
specify a variant for deletion. Here you should use "delete permanently" or
"versioning to a directory on another volume."
If you turn of the recycle bin system-wide FFS will probably not notice this
and still buffer the files in an intermediate directory before attempting to
recycle them.
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That works! Thank you for following up.
