Hi all!
I have the donation edition and on windows i absolutly love it! But now im trying to run it in linux and it doesn't work.
I go to my donation page to download the linux zip, extract it and when opening FreeFileSync executable i get the message:
unknown file type
the file "FreeFileSync" has no known programs associated with it. Use the open with dialog to pick a program to open it with.
What am i doing wrong here?
Thanks in advance!
Donation edition not working in linux
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It sounds like perhaps the "FreeFileSync" file is not actually marked as executable. Linux filesystems have a permission bit for allowing a file to be executable. If you want to use your graphical file manager to right-click the file and select "permissions" or "properties" and look for the permissions or mode, make sure the "x" column is selected.
On the command line, you could run:
Where the path is updated to your final path.
It is also possible that your file manager is designed or configured to prevent running executable programs. This is actually a safety feature, but you know how some safety features can annoy users. Off the top of my head, most window managers provide a "run a program" utility with ALT+F2. If you want to try pasting in the full path of FreeFileSync in such a pop-up run-program utility, you can try that as well.
The next question that will be asked is can you make a shortcut in your menu program or desktop. See forum post 25864 for that.
On the command line, you could run:
chmod +x /path/to/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync
It is also possible that your file manager is designed or configured to prevent running executable programs. This is actually a safety feature, but you know how some safety features can annoy users. Off the top of my head, most window managers provide a "run a program" utility with ALT+F2. If you want to try pasting in the full path of FreeFileSync in such a pop-up run-program utility, you can try that as well.
The next question that will be asked is can you make a shortcut in your menu program or desktop. See forum post 25864 for that.
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Thanks for the reply!
Now the program opens after the chmod +x to /bin/FreeFileSync_x86_64 but i can't select the performance improvements, it is greyed out. How can i fix that?
Thanks in advance again ;)
Now the program opens after the chmod +x to /bin/FreeFileSync_x86_64 but i can't select the performance improvements, it is greyed out. How can i fix that?
Thanks in advance again ;)
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anyone?
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As the performance improvement options are grayed out, you are probably running the standard (free) version of FFS, rather than the Donation Edition. (Vbove the grayed out options, it likely even says "Requires FreeFileSync Donation Edition")
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no i use the DE, downloaded from my donation page
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any ideas?
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Maybe you didn't extract all the files contained in the archive?
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yes, i did extract all files
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An "strace" could give a clue about what's happening during startup: https://freefilesync.org/faq.php#trace
