Shared HDD for Windows and Linux

[mcoma]

Hello to everyone,

I'm new to this forum. I have used FreeFileSync for a while and I am very pleased with its functionality, congratulations to the developers. I have encountered a problem, probably not a bug, that maybe someone knows a workaround or where is my mistake.

I have 3 partitions on my PC: one for Linux, another for Windows and another for data (NTFS). I want to sync a folder on the data partition, that is accessible from both operating systems, with a pen drive. I have installed FreeFileSync 9.0 on both operating systems. Every time I change the OS and try to sync (bidirectionally), it copies the whole content not only the changes (even if I do not change anything). Anyone can help me to set it correctly? It would be awesome to have this working, I have to use both operating systems and would like to sync with my pen drive from both.

Thanks in advance.

[Zenju]

The problem is likely different daylight saving time or time zone settings of the OSs and the fact that your pen drive's file system stores local instead of UTC time: https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=daylight-saving-time

[mcoma]

Hello Zenju,

Thanks for the tip. That solved the problem, I was using FreeFileSync between Linux OS before and did not know about this problem. Thanks a lot!