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- 7 minutes ago
- Forum: Help
- Topic: How to create a two way sync with subfolders on different paths
- Replies: 1
- Views: 14
Re: How to create a two way sync with subfolders on different paths
In your post, you use the drive letter D for both your USB drives. I will assume the 2nd one is named E:\ instead of D:\. Also note you use forward slashes (/) instead of backslashes (\), which is strange when using drive-letters. It seems you should specify your left base location as D:\Folder1\Cus...
- Yesterday, 19:21
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: [Feature Request] Persistent Hash Database for Long-Term Data Integrity Verification
- Replies: 2
- Views: 56
Re: [Feature Request] Persistent Hash Database for Long-Term Data Integrity Verification
> ... I performed a file content comparison today, which checks the hashes of the files on both drives. FreeFileSync (FFS) does not use hashes . A compare by content simply compares the entire content (bit-by-bit) between a left- and right-side file. The reason why FFS does not use hashes/checksums ...
- Yesterday, 18:58
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How often do you do the directory comparison?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 49
Re: How often do you do the directory comparison?
RealTimeSync (RTS) does not compare directories.
The RTS Manual page explains how RTS works.
The default value of 10 seconds you refer to is the Idle time.
The RTS Manual page explains how RTS works.
The default value of 10 seconds you refer to is the Idle time.
- 25 May 2024, 17:52
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: option for RealTimeSync?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 142
Re: option for RealTimeSync?
That is the reason why FFS has a manual page (see the link above) on the topic.
- 25 May 2024, 17:50
- Forum: Help
- Topic: 1 new win 10 machine wont write files to nas
- Replies: 1
- Views: 57
Re: 1 new win 10 machine wont write files to nas
Because you can copy OK in File Explorer to your NAS, it seems you are running a *.ffs_batch sync job launched by the Task Scheduler or by RTS which is in turn launched by the Task Scheduler. Note that tasks launched by Task Scheduler by default run as the System user, which almost certainly has no ...
- 24 May 2024, 14:44
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: option for RealTimeSync?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 142
Re: option for RealTimeSync?
Why duplicate features in FreeFileSync or RealTimeSync that are already built into Windows: the Autostart folder and the TaskScheduler.
- 24 May 2024, 14:22
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Copy Folders
- Replies: 2
- Views: 55
Re: Copy Folders
There are many ways to skin a cat. Act as proposed by xCSxXenon: Use the Update Sync variant instead of the Mirror variant Or: use the Include Filter to specify the folders that need to be included in the sync. Not included files and folders are not affected by a sync. Or: Use multiple left-right fo...
- 23 May 2024, 05:32
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Mirror type sync
- Replies: 3
- Views: 72
Re: Mirror type sync
In your second picture, the Mirror sync has become a Custom sync in which for the Difference Category "Item exists right-side only" the Action is now set to "Do nothing" (as opposed to the "Delete right item" Action for a Mirror sync). (The FFS GUI will show description...
- 21 May 2024, 08:57
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Mirror type sync
- Replies: 3
- Views: 72
Re: Mirror type sync
> To keep the data at destination folder after source folder data was deleted, is there any way to do that? A Mirror sync will delete anything form the destination (right-side) that does not or no longer exist on the source (left-side). An Update sync will leave anything in the destination (right-si...
- 20 May 2024, 06:04
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Error: Cannot create directory "C:\Program Files\FreeFreeSybc\H".
- Replies: 12
- Views: 196
Re: Error: Cannot create directory "C:\Program Files\FreeFreeSybc\H".
Based on the fact that only D-drive folders are involved in your sync, it seems you would get the error reported in the topic title during updating the installation of FreeFileSync (FFS), and not while running a FFS sync . And that you mistyped the location "C:\Program Files\FreeFreeSybc\H"...
- 20 May 2024, 05:49
- Forum: Help
- Topic: What does 'The recycle bin is not available'
- Replies: 6
- Views: 654
Re: What does 'The recycle bin is not available'
@palmlart
If the warning you get relates to the RecycleBin not being available for your SD card, you can change your Delete and Overwrite setting from RecycleBin to Permanent for that sync.
If the warning you get relates to the RecycleBin not being available for your SD card, you can change your Delete and Overwrite setting from RecycleBin to Permanent for that sync.
- 19 May 2024, 10:14
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Incomplete One-Way Sync
- Replies: 22
- Views: 598
Re: Incomplete One-Way Sync
ad 1) Was this ever a problem? You wrote/showed that FFS wants to update files that (in your perception) had not changed. I don't think you wrote that FFS does not sync files that had changed. ad 2) I expect this issue to be resolved by eliminating the overlap between Source and Target. Can you conf...
- 19 May 2024, 06:31
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Incomplete One-Way Sync
- Replies: 22
- Views: 598
Re: Incomplete One-Way Sync
1) Don't know. No experience with that 2) In theory no, but I have seen reports that a total path length over 255 characters caused problems. No clue if any of that is OS or file system related. 3) Don't know. No experience with that 4) That should affect just how date and time are displayed; not ho...
- 17 May 2024, 13:48
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Error: Cannot create directory "C:\Program Files\FreeFreeSybc\H".
- Replies: 12
- Views: 196
Re: Error: Cannot create directory "C:\Program Files\FreeFreeSybc\H".
It seems the user under which credentials you run this FFS sync does not have write access in "C:\Program Files".
- 16 May 2024, 15:01
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Can you compare folder A to folder B and move newer files to folder C?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 550
Re: Can you compare folder A to folder B and move newer files to folder C?
@doc_farras
It is presently not possible to do this automatically in FFS. And I don't expect this anytime soon in the future, because it is not really a synchronization related action.
It is presently not possible to do this automatically in FFS. And I don't expect this anytime soon in the future, because it is not really a synchronization related action.
- 15 May 2024, 11:01
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: dark screen
- Replies: 1
- Views: 188
- 15 May 2024, 10:52
- Forum: Help
- Topic: different contents in folder pair but still says no files to sync
- Replies: 4
- Views: 277
Re: different contents in folder pair but still says no files to sync
What is the file-name (or -extension)?
Perhaps the file is in the FFS default Exclude Filter list, because there is normally no need to sync such files.
Or perhaps it is a FFS (system) file (e.g. a *.ffs_db file), that should not be synced in the first place.
Perhaps the file is in the FFS default Exclude Filter list, because there is normally no need to sync such files.
Or perhaps it is a FFS (system) file (e.g. a *.ffs_db file), that should not be synced in the first place.
- 15 May 2024, 10:45
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Incomplete One-Way Sync
- Replies: 22
- Views: 598
Re: Incomplete One-Way Sync
For files shown in your picture (some of the 78 files that FFS intends to update left=>right) it seems the size is identical left vs right. So, file size does not seem to be reason for a renewed sync. You could check the file dates left-vs-right of some of these files. Perhaps iCloud modifies the fi...
- 15 May 2024, 09:52
- Forum: Help
- Topic: The difference in FFS' behaviour when there's a database file (sync.ffs_lock) vs When there's not.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 201
Re: The difference in FFS' behaviour when there's a database file (sync.ffs_lock) vs When there's not.
In your local attempt, you apparently sync C:\Users with some other location. Be aware, that users, and (as far as I know) even users with administrator-rights, do by default not have write access to C:\Users ; only to C:\Users\[UserA] , where [UserA] is the home folder of the logged-in user. If you...
- 14 May 2024, 09:46
- Forum: Help
- Topic: "...cannot find the trash bin" is displayed...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 166
- 14 May 2024, 09:19
- Forum: Help
- Topic: The difference in FFS' behaviour when there's a database file (sync.ffs_lock) vs When there's not.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 201
Re: The difference in FFS' behaviour when there's a database file (sync.ffs_lock) vs When there's not.
You are mixing up two things: • Locking folders involved in the sync by sync.ffs_lock files, as configured via the LockDirectoriesDuringSync flag and described in the Expert Settings . • The use of a database for TwoWay syncs and for detecting moved, renamed and deleted files; as stored in sync.ffs_...
- 10 May 2024, 19:16
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Creating a custom context menuitem for FreeFileSync not working in Linux. How to get it working?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 440
Re: Creating a custom context menuitem for FreeFileSync not working in Linux. How to get it working?
I only wrote "it is not realistic to assume ...". Nowhere do I write that YOU assume anything, despite your false claim to the contrary. So, I did not misrepresent what you wrote and I ask you, kindly and directly, to never engage in such untoward conduct in the future. Despite that, I won...
- 09 May 2024, 18:04
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Creating a custom context menuitem for FreeFileSync not working in Linux. How to get it working?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 440
Re: Creating a custom context menuitem for FreeFileSync not working in Linux. How to get it working?
> May I recommend ...
You are allowed to recommend anything you like.
But it is not realistic to assume Zenju will add FAQ items in support of unofficial distributions of his software, that are possibly even in conflict with the distribution conditions.
You are allowed to recommend anything you like.
But it is not realistic to assume Zenju will add FAQ items in support of unofficial distributions of his software, that are possibly even in conflict with the distribution conditions.
- 07 May 2024, 13:59
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Unexpected issues with sync.ffs_db files
- Replies: 3
- Views: 264
Re: Unexpected issues with sync.ffs_db files
I don't know Gdrive in detail, but several cloud storage services retain previous versions of any files that get updated. And obviously, FFS updates the Gdrive-side *.ffs_db file ate the end of each sync.
- 06 May 2024, 09:36
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Unexpected issues with sync.ffs_db files
- Replies: 3
- Views: 264
Re: Unexpected issues with sync.ffs_db files
FFS only creates a single *.ffs_db file in (each of your) left and right base location(s). Because the *.ffs_db files are unique per base location, FFS does not sync its *.ffs_db files . To the extent that *ffs_db files do get synced, it must be due to Gdrive, not FFS. It seems Gdrive used to have t...
- 02 May 2024, 07:18
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Default Sync Method Should Be - Update
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1268
Re: The Default Sync Method Should Be - Update
If you are not happy with the default settings (when defining a sync configuration via "New" ), you can always define a sync configuration according to your own preference and save that as e.g. MyTemplate.ffs_gui. Instead of creating a new sync configuration via "New", you now op...
- 29 Apr 2024, 06:35
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Confirmation of one drive to multiple drives
- Replies: 4
- Views: 787
Re: Confirmation of one drive to multiple drives
The only other option is to backup certain file types to disk 1, other certain file types to disk 2 and all remaining file types to disk 3. As an example: All Word, Excel and PDF files to disk 1, all pictures and movies to disk 2, and all other file types to disk 3. In line with the example, you can...
- 28 Apr 2024, 08:21
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Synchronisation Settings - Left delete -> Right create new
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1065
Re: Synchronisation Settings - Left delete -> Right create new
Hoovering your mouse over any of the six Action-icons may also help.
- 28 Apr 2024, 08:11
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Confirmation of one drive to multiple drives
- Replies: 4
- Views: 787
Re: Confirmation of one drive to multiple drives
It sounds like that, after an initial transfer of your data to your new disk, you want to backup part of the data on your new disk to a first 1st disk, another part of the data on your new disk to a 2nd old disk, and yet another part of the data on your new disk to a 3rd old disk. Although it is pos...
Re: error
> In fact, it did not accept saving them on the external backup hard drive. As far as FFS is concerned, you are completely free to save sync configurations to, and run those from any (accessible) location you choose. But for saving, you obviously need write permission for such location. Most likely,...