Hey guys,
I love FFS and have been using it for 6 months almost daily but unfortunately around 10-20% of the time it does not work, and I haven't figure out why that is.
I load the comparison folders and sometimes it gives me the error waring: "The following folders do not yet exist:...", then the path or paths, then "The folders are created automatically when needed."
If I click on "ignore" nothing happens, the folders do not get created. It doesn't matter if I "browse" to the folders or if I drag and drop the folders into the path. Then I try the same folders on a different day and everything works.
Restarting the machine does not make a difference. The folders are located on an external usb hard drive and a smb:// share. Sometime the path to the share won't work, sometimes the path to the hard drive folder, sometimes both. Local hard drive folders seem to work, but I never need to sync them.
Current version: 10.20, OSX Mojave 10.14.16
Any help is highly appreciated.
OSX external HD and Servershare: The following folders do not yet exist:...
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Not sure if it matches your situation, but I got this error message when the folders I was trying to compare accidentally had a space at the end of the name of the folder. Can be hard to notice!
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Thank you so much StonChris, this was indeed the case, you're a legend, Cheers!!!
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There are two issues here that FFS can fix:
1. FFS automatically trims the base folder paths in order to facilitate users copy & pasting. This makes it impossible to select a folder ending with space into the input fields on main dialog (and added to the confusion of the above report). => FFS should add a path separator to protect the trailing space after manual selection.
2. It generally doesn't make much sense to create folders with trailing spaces (or dots). Although all of Windows, Linux, macOS support it at the file system level, only macOS allows users to create them manually via Finder. So trailing spaces are almost always a mistake, and FFS should deliberately fail to create them.
Both issues have been fixed for the next release:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/bv03gj5r08jjiac/FreeFileSync_10.23_beta_macOS.zip
1. FFS automatically trims the base folder paths in order to facilitate users copy & pasting. This makes it impossible to select a folder ending with space into the input fields on main dialog (and added to the confusion of the above report). => FFS should add a path separator to protect the trailing space after manual selection.
2. It generally doesn't make much sense to create folders with trailing spaces (or dots). Although all of Windows, Linux, macOS support it at the file system level, only macOS allows users to create them manually via Finder. So trailing spaces are almost always a mistake, and FFS should deliberately fail to create them.
Both issues have been fixed for the next release:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/bv03gj5r08jjiac/FreeFileSync_10.23_beta_macOS.zip
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Thanks Zenju,
That's very satisfactory. A problem identified on 12th March. A workaround nominated four days later, and a bug fix / patch organised by the programmers another four days after that. We need to get you guys on to solving COVID-19!
That's very satisfactory. A problem identified on 12th March. A workaround nominated four days later, and a bug fix / patch organised by the programmers another four days after that. We need to get you guys on to solving COVID-19!
