Not understanding RealTimeSync

[johnwmcc]

I've just downloaded and installed FreeFileSync and RealTimeSync for Mac.

I successfully created a .ffs_gui job to Update from one folder (with included subfolders and files) to a matching folder on my local network NAS drive. I also saved the job as a .ffs_batch file.

Following the rather sketchy instructions for RealTimeSync in the Help file, I opened the RTS program, set it to Watch the folder I'd just set up with FFS, then used File/Open to locate and open the .ffs_batch file, then pressed Start.

I expected this to run RTS in the background, and to run the Update FFS operation if the watched folder contents changed.

Instead, it is running the operation every ten seconds or so, with a pop-up window and a loud BONG from the computer speakers, reporting that nothing has changed or been updated.

Should I just turn off the option in RTS to show a Pop-up on Error, if this is expected behaviour? As far as I can see, there isn't any error in the Update.

Or am I just misunderstanding what RTS is supposed to do?

And the only way I found to turn off the pop-up and BONG every ten seconds was to delete both the ffs_batch and ffs_real files.

Surely this isn't what's supposed to happen?

Help, please, to point me in the right direction.

And thanks in advance for any suggestions you can give me.