sync.ffs_db error. Advice needed.

[loudhvx]

Hi all,
I've been using FFS for many years and find it absolutely great, simple, intuitive, and fast. After an operating system, it's probably the most important and most used software I have.

Anyway, I've been using an old version of FFS on windows XP machines and it works flawlessly between them. But I also installed the latest FFS onto a Windows 10 computer and it works, but cannot read the old version of sync.ffs_db, and vice versa.

(I still need the old hardware computers to interface with legacy peripherals at work.)

I'd like to get an opinion on whether I should install an older version of FFS onto the Windows 10 computer, or should I install a newer version of FFS on the XP machines? I see the FFS versions marked as the last one supporting XP. Is that version compatible with the latest FFS version in regards to reading sync.ffs_db?

Sorry, I don't have the exact version number I'm running on XP, but it's been maybe 10 years so maybe the version is in the 3.x range.

I searched a bit, but I could not find info on what versions would be compatible across the different versions of Windows.

Thanks for this great piece of freeware! (I just donated.)

[xCSxXenon]

I don't think it's possible. You may be better off disabling 'detect moved files' if you are simply doing a mirror and not a two-way sync. If you are doing a two-way sync, the solution may be to create multiple syncs that are using mirror to 'emulate' a two-way. You would consciously have to run them in the correct order to avoid data loss. Are you transferring data between the two machines?

[loudhvx]

Thank you. Yes I'm syncing both ways including deletions, to have identical copies of folders on multiple machines (two are running xp and a third is running w10). I work on all of the different machines at various times and want the work to be synced across all.

Was there a point where sync.ffs_db changed drastically, or does every version use a slightly different, and possibly incompatible, file structure?

[xCSxXenon]

Most versions within reason are compatible, but XP to 10 is an insane jump