After updating to 11.27 I get Unexpected file extension: ""

[Vatvedt]

Hi,
I used an older donation-version before I updated yesterday. I guess I should've kept the old working version, because now I get an error telling me:

"File "X:\Documents\Files\FreeFileSync backup config\SyncSettings Batch-file" does not contain a valid configuration

Unexpected file extension: ""

Or something like it. Translated from Norwegian. How can I fix this? It worked perfectly with the older version.

Could I please get a link to an older donation-version to downgrade to a working one, please?

Please help. :)

[therube]

I believe the issue may be that the batch files now need to specifically have a ".ffs_batch" extension?

So something like:

X:\Documents\Files\FreeFileSync backup config\SyncSettings Batch-file.ffs_batch


See if adding ".ffs_batch" as an extension gets you working.


I don't believe you can download older donation-versions (only current).
Older non-donation are here, https://freefilesync.org/archive.php.


See also, viewtopic.php?t=9611.

[Vatvedt]

Thanks for the quick reply.
Upon futher inspection, it's already named SyncSettings Batch-file.ffs_batch

The file I'm using was created through FFS, and not through some weird "hackery" I did either, so if the program did it's thing correctly, this shouldn't fail. The batch-files was probably made using 11.14 a year ago.

Reinstalling everything will probably fix things (or just creating the batch file from scratch on the new version), but I'm hoping that it wouldn't come to that. I was hoping there was an easier fix to this. I've found the donation version of 11.22. I'll probably revert to that one and stick to it. That should work.

[therube]

In your .ffs_batch file, does the second line say:

<FreeFileSync XmlType="BATCH" XmlFormat="17">

[Vatvedt]

Yes, the first two lines are as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FreeFileSync XmlType="BATCH" XmlFormat="17">

I do have an FreeFileSync backup config.ffs_gui in the same folder, though. That shouldn't matter, I guess.