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sjbrowser

I have been working on this for several hours. I guess I just don't understand precisely what goes inside the batch job that I will use for RealTimeSync. I understand how to select the folders and in the command line I use: "C:\Program Files\FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync.exe" to kick off the exe. But I just cannot for the life of me find any documentation that shows precisely what the inside of a useful batch file looks like.

Is there anyway someone could give me a real live example of the contents of a batch file?

thanks
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xCSxXenon

It's not a Windows batch file. The batch file you create is a .ffs_batch file. You create it by opening FFS and defining the sync you want to perform, so the source/destination, compare method, sync method, etc. You save that configuration as a batch job in FFS. You can actually just drag that batch job onto the RTS window and it will autofill the directories to be monitored and the command line. All you do is change idle time, if you want, and save that RTS config as a .ffs_real file. Put that file in a startup location and use task schedule to run the RTS executable with the .ffs_real as the parameter.
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Plerry

It seems you (sjbrowser) did not watch the Tutorial video's on Batch jobs and on RealTimeSync ...
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sjbrowser

@xCSxXenon - very helpful - thank you

@Plerry - not helpful

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Plerry

@sjbrowser - What was not helpful?
The tutorial video's exactly explain what FFS batch files/jobs are and how to use those in configuring RTS.
And that was literally your question.