I am getting an annoying inacurate popup that FreeFileSync is installed on too many devices.
I regularly clone my system disk as my backup. FreeFileSync apparently count the clones as an installs.
Everytime I open FreeFileSync I get the popup.
I always donate or buy software to help the author of the software, but never have expected such annoying addon for donating.
I have sent an email to zenju [at] freefilesync.org about the problem, but I received no response.
Is there way to stop the annoying popup other than to stop using my donation copy of FreeFileSync?
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I clone the system drive all the time and just keep extra drives for when needed.
If I have a problem with the system I just put a clone drive in that has no problems and then clone it.
The install of FreeFileSync is only on that one computer.
I like the software, but the popup message every time I use FFS is a pain.
If I were trying to cheat you I would have just downloaded the free version of FFS.
The install on the NUC is for my grandson. I wanted to get him a donate version, but there was no way to do it. I actually send you a email regarding this, but you did not respond to my email.
You have a great piece of software, please don't turn it into nagware.
"If I have a problem with the system I just put a clone drive in that has no problems and then clone it."
You should not have any problems if you would make (frequent) images of your system disk, and restore any of those images to the system disk in case you have a problem with the system.
It may however become another story if you make (bootable) clone-disks and then run from such a clone-disk, effectively making the clone your new system disk.
Yeah, your backup methodology is flawed. You shouldn't boot off these backups and instead restore the image to your main drive. How bored do you have to be to constantly make backup clones? You could look into online backup utilities. My preference is to boot into a Windows PE and create an image of the OS using Norton Ghost or something similar.
Not boring at all. Takes about 4 minutes to clone the disk and another 1 minute to change the disk out.
I don't have run an Anti Virus program (which it seem they are always out of date).
If I download a game or other software that causes a problem, I can change out the disk and be up and running in 1 minute.
