Unable to create log file in batch mode

Posts: 3 · bob-125 31 Oct 2014, 05:03

Hi,

I have a batch job where "Save Log" in set to on.

If I use:

"C:\Program Files\FreeFileSync\FreeFileSync.exe" "Test.ffs_batch"

that works, assuming Test.ffs_batch is in the current directory.

If I use an absolute pathname:

"C:\Program Files\FreeFileSync\FreeFileSync.exe" "D:/FreeFileSync/Test.ffs_batch"

that fails, FreeFileSync trying to use a mangled name for the log file.

Thanks for a great product anyway!

Posts: 7282 · Zenju 31 Oct 2014, 10:33

What were the exact error messages you saw and the FFS configuration you used?

Posts: 3 · bob-125 31 Oct 2014, 13:04

I get:

Cannot write file "d:\m1\FreeFileSync\Log\D:/m1/FreeFileSync/Test 2014-10-31 13571.log"

Error Code 123: The filename .... is incorrect.

What happens is that the full path is attached to the log directory, rather than just the name of the log file.

It should be just:

"d:\m1\FreeFileSync\Log\Test 2014-10-31 13571.log"

I attach the config file.

Posts: 7282 · Zenju 31 Oct 2014, 14:42

The problem seems to be related to the "/" characters. How do you start the ffs_batch job? Are you using "/" instead of "\" somewhere as path separator?

Posts: 7282 · Zenju 31 Oct 2014, 14:46

The problem seems to be related to the "/" characters. How do you start the ffs_batch job? Are you using "/" instead of "\" somewhere as path separator?Zenju

Can answer this myself, it's in your first post, this is the problem:

> "C:\Program Files\FreeFileSync\FreeFileSync.exe" "D:/FreeFileSync/Test.ffs_batch"

Posts: 3 · bob-125 31 Oct 2014, 15:31

Ok, got it!

That's because of my Unix background, I often use "/" instead of "\".

It's easy to correct on my side of course, so I'm happy, but it's still a (little) bug. FFS should handle / like it does \, since both are allowed on Windows.

Anyway, thank!

Posts: 7282 · Zenju 18 Aug 2015, 11:40

Ok, got it!

That's because of my Unix background, I often use "/" instead of "\".

It's easy to correct on my side of course, so I'm happy, but it's still a (little) bug. FFS should handle / like it does \, since both are allowed on Windows.

Anyway, thank!bob-125

Implemented for 7.4. In addition FFS will accept macros, path by volume name, etc, i.e. it supports all directory parsing features now also from command line! So something like

FreeFileSync.exe %csidl_desktop%/Syncjob

will run. Note the slash instead of backslash and the missing ".ffs_batch".

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