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I also sync the same source to another location Also over the network? This time only one file was found to be different. I performed a CRC check of both the source and destination files. Here is what I found: The MD5 hash for both files is identical. The SHA256 hash for both files is identical. So...

FFS version, 13.4? Free or Donation version (though I don't believe that should matter in the case of the FreeFileSync_x64.exe file)? And it is only the timestamp that differs (date is the same)? If you were to download (13.4) again, do the two downloads (hash or content) compare? And if they do, if...

Might a strace provide more information?

I have never run across this issue before

As in before, with FFS, on a different Linux version?

the files that were being copied had a blank modification time on the original drive I wonder if there is actually a "NOT" date (instead of a date < 1-1-70)? Using a file date 12-31-69, that date does show up as 12-31-69 in FFS (& even though it shows as blank in Windows Explorer). Li...

I haven't been able to find a utility that would perform that function What have you tried? 1970-01-01 From what I can tell, a file dated before 1-1-70 displays with no date - in Windows Explorer. It does still have a date, it is only that Windows Explorer does not display it. (At least in Win7. An...

This reads like some tool on the destination computer accesses and modifies (or at least changes the modified date of) said 32 files after they are written there.

Agreed.

Sounds like, Recurring "Updates" That "Don't"

What OS? (I don't know the business version specifically, but...) Check to see if there is a "Registered.dat" file in FFS's installation_dir/Resources/? If not, see if manually coping the .key file into there, & renaming it to "Registered.dat" then gives you a registered vers...

What type of Comparison?
What type of Sync?

Screenshots?

The "=", I believe he was alluding to the "=" in the "statusbar".

( exFAT vs NTFS makes a HUGE difference in how a copy operation to the drive may impact overall system responsiveness You have to take my whole post above with a grain of salt - because the drive turned out to be utter crap. So anything I might have observed at the time was flawed due to utter incon...

( Agreed with xCSxXenon. I had to RMA my Kingston within 30 days of purchase. While the replacement was the same "model", its' internals were different. The replacement has been fine. [knock, knock, knock] Description: [K:]USB Mass Storage Device(Kingston DataTraveler 3.0) Device Type: Mas...

Update vs. Custom sync, new vs. pre-existing .GUI ... just noting... an oddity... If you have an existing sync (LastRun.ffs_gui), & it is an Update sync, with the 'Use database' option selected, if you then deselect the 'Use database', & OK that, it then shows as a Custom sync. Just odd. (Do...

(Nope. Just a user, & just noting what I see.)

Let me note that that (FFS) "status" dialog box ("Completed successfully", or whatever it may say at a particular time) does seem to have a (somewhat) material impact or "screen resources". Such that, even after a scan has been run, so long as the status dialog box is o...

If after a sync has been run, you parse the .log file, & for every "Verifying file" entry in the log, if you then moved all those associated source files out of the source directory, then the only files left in source would be new files that ended up in there during or after the last s...

Explain?

So a file "in the cloud" has a name, without an extension.
So something like, "anamewithoutanextension".

And you're looking to sync
from cloud:\\anamewithoutanextension to c:\backups\

but... ?

What cloud?
What type of sync?
Do you have any (non-default) Filters set?

On my end, while a sync is in progress, Paused or not, I/O or not, if I (on Windows) "Show Desktop" (Winkey+M), I can catch a momentary ghost, but that's the extent of it. If I actually minimize the FFS window itself, there is no ghosting at all. Maybe Windows "Aero" (theme) is p...

I want all *.pdf files from my old HD Everything (Windows only), do a search for ext:pdf (or filter in any way you want, O: ext:pdf, to get pdf files from your O:ld drive, named, O:). Select all (or those you want), Ctrl+C (to copy), then Paste same into your wanted directory. Depending on collisio...

Video card driver update, perhaps?

These high CPU loads only occur after running FFS?

What type of Sync are you running?

About how many files are affected during a typical sync?

What does journalctl -f show?

What type of Comparison are you doing?

I had a missing msg.exe

And if you were to remove it (or rename it, -> msg.exe.NOT), then FFS again breaks?
(And then rename it back again, msg.exe, & FFS works again?)

Seemingly you can disable mtime on Linux systems so maybe that was specifically done, or maybe the Java end is specifically doing that for some odd reason?

(Likewise, maybe you can undo that change if it was in fact done?)

Linux no modify time (nomtime)

Are you sure your directory pairs are correct?

I have noticed that MS Office (word, excel, etc) is making changes to my files when I open them, even without explicitly saving

Excel .xls files & File Content Compare

(No clue about it, much less the difference between cyber & mountain, but...)

https://github.com/iterate-ch/cyberduck/discussions?discussions_q=is%3Aopen+date

https://docs.cyberduck.io/protocols/s3/#modification-date

Sounds similar to, Batch synchronization fail with ERROR_INVALID_PASSWORD.

FFS 12.5 shows the same, so you might be right. (Which would then also likely mean that something else is going on in that other thread.) Maybe it's a race (not exactly the right word, but...) condition. An existing x.ffs_tmp wants to be create a file named x.ffs_tmp, but it already exists. So you w...

Does sound similar.
Guess I should throw in an earlier version of FFS (& see what that shows)?

Why is 1 file wanting to be deleted from the Source? New configuration Source is \\NAS Target is an empty directory on a networked PC 1 file (& only 1) is showing it wants to be deleted from the Source? Same results with both Update & Mirror scans. And both Update & Mirror should not be ...

(Ah, thanks.)