Hello,
I swapped my HDD for a Samsung SSD using their program to copy the contents, and changed drive letter on a data partition. I also changed the name of the folder that contains the backup to match the new drive letter. FFS is now flagging half of that partition plus significant sections of the rest of the 1TB partitions, 300Gb and 70k files, as in need of delete-replace. I've checked a folder tree of 14,300 files using CloneSpy and it finds 14,160 are true Duplicates. The files have the same exact size, created and modified dates and attributes. I could just let FFS get on with it but the laptop is on USB 2.0 so that's hours.
Any suggestions?
Mike
V10.11 and V11.8 finding false positives of changed files
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It sounds like a large amount of changes occurred and FFS can't keep track of the files being moved and has to start fresh essentially. The db file is likely junk after all of that, thus needing to delete and copy
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If you are running a bi-directional sync, or a Mirror sync with "Detect Moved Files" enabled, xCSxXenon's remark is likely spot-on. The ffs-db files work based on file-IDs. And almost certainly the file-IDs on your new drive are different from those of the old drive, even when file names, locations and dates are consistent.
And that is likely why FFS intends to delete-replace.
And that is likely why FFS intends to delete-replace.
