Mirror changes
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Hi all, I am using Mirror sync, the first time I ran it the copy was completed as expected. I want to run it again after I have made changes and when I run Mirror sync again it shows my changes as expected but it appears that it is waiting for me to approve the actions, maybe a deleted file or a changed file. I cannot figure out how to tell FFS to just update and be done. Am I missing something here? Thanks in advance.
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FreeFileSync (FFS) is always executed in two phases, a Compare phase and a Synchronization phase.
If you run (FFS) via the GUI, after running the Compare phase, FFS shows the compare results, including the proposed actions, in the compare result window 10 of the Main Dialog Overview.
The user can then review the proposed actions (in the middle), and if and where necessary modify the proposed action.
If/after all is OK, the user needs to manually start the actual sync by clicking the Synchronize button 5 of the Main Dialog.
If you have stored your FFS sync settings as a *.ffs_gui-file, that file always opens in the GUI and thus always requires the user to manually start the actual sync.
Similarly, if you have stored your FFS sync settings as a *.ffs_batch-file and open it in/from the GUI, it always requires the user to manually start the actual sync.
However, if you have stored your FFS sync settings as a *.ffs_batch-file, and run that file from a command prompt or by double clicking that file, the Compare and Synchronization phase are run successively without in between requiring the user to manually start the actual sync.
If you run (FFS) via the GUI, after running the Compare phase, FFS shows the compare results, including the proposed actions, in the compare result window 10 of the Main Dialog Overview.
The user can then review the proposed actions (in the middle), and if and where necessary modify the proposed action.
If/after all is OK, the user needs to manually start the actual sync by clicking the Synchronize button 5 of the Main Dialog.
If you have stored your FFS sync settings as a *.ffs_gui-file, that file always opens in the GUI and thus always requires the user to manually start the actual sync.
Similarly, if you have stored your FFS sync settings as a *.ffs_batch-file and open it in/from the GUI, it always requires the user to manually start the actual sync.
However, if you have stored your FFS sync settings as a *.ffs_batch-file, and run that file from a command prompt or by double clicking that file, the Compare and Synchronization phase are run successively without in between requiring the user to manually start the actual sync.
