What's new in FreeFileSync 13.5
Apr 1, 2024
- Wrap file grid folder paths instead of truncate
- Fixed sync operation arrows for RTL layout
- Fixed FTP hang during connection (libcurl regression)
- Consider user-defined file time tolerance for DB comparisons
- Don't log folder pair paths if nothing to sync
New in FreeFileSync 13.4 (Feb 16, 2024)
- Ignore leading/trailing space when matching file names
- Work around wxWidgets system logger clearing error code
- Fixed registration info not found after App Translocation (macOS)
- Avoid modal dialog hang on KDE when compiling with GTK3
- Change app location without losing Donation Edition status (macOS)
New in FreeFileSync 13.3 (Jan 7, 2024)
- Completed CASA security assessment for Google Drive
- Use system temp folder for auto-updating
- Ignore errors when setting directory attributes is unsupported
- Save GUI sync log file even when cancelled
- Fixed Business Edition install over existing installation
- Updated code signing certificates (Windows)
New in FreeFileSync 13.2 (Nov 23, 2023)
- Complete high-DPI/Retina display support (macOS)
- Prevent files from being moved to versioning recursively
- Fixed tooltip line wrap bug for moved files (Windows)
- Return first FTP parsing error when trying multiple variants
- Allow file times from the future for Linux-style FTP listing
- Fixed setting modification times on certain storage devices (Windows)
- Fixed bogus "Sound playback failed" error message (macOS)
- Fixed rename dialog text selection wobble (macOS)
New in FreeFileSync 13.1 (Oct 23, 2023)
- Keep comparison results when only changing cloud connection settings
- Sync button: indicate if database will be used
- Remove leading/trailing space during manual file rename
- Set environment variable "DISPLAY=:0" if missing (Linux)
- Support dropping ffs_gui/ffs_real config on RealTimeSync directory input field
New in FreeFileSync 13.0 (Sep 12, 2023)
- Rename (multiple) files manually (F2 key)
- Configure individual directions for DB-based sync
- Detect moved files with "Update" sync variant (requires sync.ffs_db files)
- Update variant: Do not restore files that were deleted on target
- Distinguish file renames from file moves and simplify grid display
- Fixed ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED when copying files with NTFS extended attributes
- Fixed error during process initialization while connecting with quick launch
- Avoid redundant file reopen when setting file times during copy
- Set working directory to match FFS configuration file when double-clicking (Linux)
New in FreeFileSync 12.5 (Jul 22, 2023)
- Merge logs of individual steps (comparison, manual operation, sync)
- Show total percentage in progress dialog header
- Log and report errors during cleanup or exception handling
- Skip folder traversal if existence check fails for other side of the pair
- Automatically adapt batch options to prevent hanging a non-interactive process (Windows)
- Support path lists for external applications: %item_paths%, %local_paths%, %item_names%, %parent_paths%
- Create directory lock files with hidden attribute
- Don't clear other side when right-clicking file selection
- Fixed passive FTP when using different IP than control connection
- Work around FTP servers silently renaming unsupported characters of temporary file
New in FreeFileSync 12.4 (Jun 20, 2023)
- Show dynamic error and warning count in progress dialogs
- Show process elevation status in title bar (Administrator, root)
- Fixed libcurl bug CURLE_URL_MALFORMAT for numerical host name
- Don't discard config panel last log after no changes found
- Set taskbar relaunch command to launcher executable (Windows)
- Fixed Btrfs compression not being applied during copy (Linux)
- Run on file systems with buggy GetFinalPathNameByHandle() implementation, e.g. Dokany-based
- Save selected view mode (F11) in batch config file
New in FreeFileSync 12.3 (May 17, 2023)
- Add custom notes to sync configurations
- Highlight comparison and sync buttons
- Show sync stats in config panel tool tip
- Update config panel sync info even if cancelled
- Support FTP listing format missing owner/group
- Fixed "Class not registered" error during installation
- Propagate process priority of launcher executable
- Fixed config panel metadata being reset after renaming
- Fixed config panel keyboard cursor after deletion/rename
- Improved small icon resolution for high-DPI monitors
New in FreeFileSync 12.20 (Apr 2, 2023)
- Fixed temporary access error when creating multiple folders in parallel
- Log failure to copy folder attributes as warning only
- Enable UTF-8, even if FTP server does not advertize in FEAT (vsftpd)
- Fixed drag and drop for non-ASCII folders (macOS)
- Explicitly detect MTP path without existence check
- Fixed crash when parsing SFTP package from stream
- Revert back to GTK2 build due to GTK3 hangs on KDE (Linux)
- Fixed missing COM initialization for MTP path parsing
New in FreeFileSync 12.10 (Feb 20, 2023)
- Allow cancel during folder path normalization (e.g. delay during HDD spin up)
- Fixed slow FTP comparison performance due to libcurl regression
- Preserve changed config during auto-update
- Removed packet size limit for SFTP directory reading
- Mouse hover effects for config and overview grid
- Always update existing shortcuts during installation
- Fixed another "Some files will be synchronized as part of multiple base folders" false-negative
New in FreeFileSync 12.00 (Jan 21, 2023)
- Don't save password and show prompt instead for (S)FTP
- Fast path check failure on access errors
- Support PuTTY private key file version 3
- Respect timeout during SFTP connect
- Removed 20-sec timeout while checking directory existence
- Avoid hitting (S)FTP connection limit for non-uniform configs
- Fixed middle grid tooltip icon not always showing (Linux)
- Optimized file accesses when checking file path existence
- Fixed overview navigation marker not always showing on main grid
- Clear all grid selections after view filter toggle
- Fixed mouse selection starting on folder group
- Don't require sudo during non-root installation (Linux)
- Stricter type checking when deleting file/folder/symlinks
- Succinct error messages when path component is not existing
New in FreeFileSync 11.28 (Nov 16, 2022)
- Recover from corrupted database file
- Save database files pair-wise as a transaction
- Fixed FTP access for Xiaomi "File Manager"
- Fixed filter full path detection for root directory (Linux/macOS)
- Fixed recycle bin double initialization bug (Windows)
- Fixed incorrect case-insensitive string comparison for i and ı
- Round progress percentage numbers down
New in FreeFileSync 11.27 (Oct 17, 2022)
- Fixed a "Some files will be synchronized as part of multiple base folders" false-negative
- Fixed "Unexpected size of data stream" for Google Drive
- Fixed crash when downloading empty file from Google Drive
- RealTimeSync: fixed ffs_batch not accepted as valid configuration
- Fixed top buttons vertical GUI layout
- Fixed progress dialog font on Ubuntu MATE
- Support cut/copy/paste for filter settings
- Fixed free disk space calculation if target folder not yet created
New in FreeFileSync 11.26 (Oct 6, 2022)
- Faster file copy for SSD-based hard drives (Linux, macOS)
- Don't fill the OS file cache during file copy (macOS)
- Removed redundant memory buffering during file copy
- Fixed ERROR_FILE_EXISTS on Samba share when copying files with NTFS extended attributes
- Show warning when recycle bin is not available (macOS, Linux)
- Customize config item background colors
- Fixed macOS menu bar not showing after app start
- Fixed normalizing strings with broken UTF encoding
- Fixed sound playback not working (Linux)
- Don't allow creating file names ending with dot character (Windows)
New in FreeFileSync 11.25 (Aug 31, 2022)
- Fixed crash when normalizing Unicode non-characters
- Fixed crash when accesssing Google Drive
- Fixed regession for decomposed Unicode comparison
- Fixed "exit code 106: --sign is required" error on macOS
- Reset icon cache after each comparison
New in FreeFileSync 11.24 (Aug 28, 2022)
- Enhanced filter syntax to match files only (append ':')
- Fixed "Some files will be synchronized as part of multiple base folders": no more false-positives
- Detect full path filter items and convert to relative path
- Auto-detect FTP server character encoding (UTF8 or ANSI)
- Cancel grid selection via Escape key or second mouse button
- Apply conflict preview limit accross all folder pairs
- Require config type and file extension to match
- Fixed view filter panel vertical layout
- Strict validation of UTF encoding
New in FreeFileSync 11.23 (Jul 23, 2022)
- Format local file times with no limits on time span
- Deferred child item failure when traversing MTP folder
- Fixed occasional wrong thumbnail orientation for MTP
- Support additional image formats for MTP preview (e.g. CR2)
- Fixed folder pair window being squashed after text size increase
- Fixed wrong folder pair order when loading config (Linux)
- Fixed some images being stretched on high-DPI monitors
- Fixed config panel tab text being mirrored in RTL layout
- Fixed parsing file times one second before Unix epoch (Gdrive, FTP)
New in FreeFileSync 11.22 (Jun 23, 2022)
- Allow to change default log folder in global settings
- Fixed sort order when items existing on one side only
- Consider HOME environment variable for home path (Linux)
- Fixed config selection using shift and arrow keys
- Start comparison, then sync by only pressing Enter after startup
- Fall back to default path when failing to save log file
- Improved relative config path handling in portable mode
New in FreeFileSync 11.21 (May 17, 2022)
- Support volume GUID as path: \?Volume{01234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789abcdef} (Windows)
- Avoid Two-Way conflict when changing folder name upper/lower-case
- List hidden warning messages in options dialog
- Fixed buffer overflow while receiving SFTP server banner
- Create crash dumps even if FFS-internal crash handling doesn't kick in
- Log time when error occured, not when it is reported
- Swap sides: Require confirmation only after comparison
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 11.20 (Apr 18, 2022)
- Fixed broken icon scaling on high-DPI displays
New in FreeFileSync 11.19 (Apr 17, 2022)
- Improved performance for huge exclusion filter lists: linear to constant(!) time
- Support sync with Google Drive starred folders
- Access "My Computers" (as created by Google Backup and Sync) if starred
- Western Digital Mycloud NAS: fixed ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS when changing case
- Added per-file progress for "copy to" function
- Have filter wildcard ? not match path separator
- Work around WBEM_E_INVALID_NAMESPACE error during installation
- Fixed login user incorrectly displayed as root (macOS)
- Save Google Drive buffer before system shutdown
New in FreeFileSync 11.18 (Mar 7, 2022)
- Add comparison time to sync log when using GUI
- Added user-configurable timeout for Google Drive
- Consider port when comparing (S)FTP paths for equality
- Fixed SFTP key file login error on OpenSSH_8.8p1
- Add error details for NSFileReadUnknownError (macOS)
- Disable new config button when already at default
- Use user language instead of region locale during installation
New in FreeFileSync 11.17 (Feb 4, 2022)
- Show per-file progress in percent when copying large files
- Log app initialization errors
- Fixed uncaught exception after installation
- Defer testing for third-party buggy DLLs until after crashing
- Consider ReFS 128-bit file ID failure states (Windows)
- Refer to volume by name: support names including brackets
- Support local installation with non-standard home (Linux)
New in FreeFileSync 11.16 (Jan 2, 2022)
- Allow to select and remove invalid config file
- Migrated all HTTPS requests to use libcurl (Linux, macOS)
- Set keyboard focus on config panel after startup
- Added computer name to log file trailer
- Context menu instead of confirmation dialog for swap sides
- Fixed config selection lost after auto-cleaning obsolete rows
- Install app files with owner set to root (Linux)
- Don't override keyboard shortcut "CTRL + W" (macOS)
- Migrated key conversion routines deprecated in OpenSSL 3.0
- Boxed app icon to fit OS theme (macOS)
- Fixed manual retry after automatic update check error
- Fixed missing ampersands in middle grid tooltip
New in FreeFileSync 11.15 (Dec 4, 2021)
- Play sound reminder when waiting for user confirmation
- Enhanced crash diagnostics with known triggers
- Defer reporting third-party incompatibilities until after crashing
- Support running FreeFileSync from Dokany-based encrypted volumes
- Fixed Server 2019 not being detected for log file
- Use native representation for modified config (macOS)
- Improved WinMerge detection for external app integration
New in FreeFileSync 11.14 (Sep 20, 2021)
- Authenticate (S)FTP connections using OpenSSL 3.0
- Fixed E_NOINTERFACE error after synchronization
- Preempt crashes due to Nahimic Sonic Studio 3
- Hide main window when minimizing progress window (macOS)
- Avoid second dock icon when minimizing progress window (macOS)
New in FreeFileSync 11.13 (Aug 17, 2021)
- Manage default filter settings via GUI
- Fixed ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND masking real file access error (Windows)
- Copy full file paths to clipboard (CTRL + C)
- Preserve clipboard contents until after program exit
- Always enable external command if independent of file items
New in FreeFileSync 11.12 (Jul 15, 2021)
- Native ARM64 build to support Apple silicon M1 (macOS)
- Non-intrusive mouse highlight on file grid
- Fixed /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_7.0.0' not found
- Parse file times with no limits on time span (e.g. year 0, year 3000)
- Show folder icon during drag and drop (Windows)
- Show user name for (S)FTP display paths
- Fixed FTP connection lost error with TLS 1.3
- Present file sizes in powers of 1000 bytes (Linux, macOS)
New in FreeFileSync 11.11 (Jun 11, 2021)
- Fixed Shared Drive synchronization with Google Drive
- Directly open exported file list (.CSV) as temporary file
- Avoid EIO error for F_PREALLOCATE (macOS)
- Watch socket using "poll" instead of "select" (Linux, macOS)
- Fixed user-specific time/date format (Windows)
- Fixed system_profiler not found error (macOS)
New in FreeFileSync 11.10 (May 10, 2021)
- Fixed comparison results cleared after mouse-scrolling the first folder pair
- Stricter base folder existence checks before synchronization
- Disable all file pairs when base folder status cannot be determined
- Fixed sync statistics if base folder existence test failed
- Work around glitch in grid scrollbar size calculation
- Fixed folder drag and drop failing after locale conflict (macOS)
- Fixed incorrect mime permissions after installation (Linux)
- Stricter server response validation during update check
- Fixed incomplete item path in log if source item is missing
- Fixed installation error when running ConEmu
- Support starting FreeFileSync as root login user (Linux)
New in FreeFileSync 11.9 (Apr 2, 2021)
- Save different layouts depending on screen resolution
- Fixed large file icon scaling quality (Windows)
- Fixed broken default filter excluding DocumentRevisions (macOS)
- Don't immediately exit terminal when installer error is showing (Linux)
- Explicitly set file permissions when installing missing directories (Linux)
- Support installation using noexec temp directory (Linux)
- Don't fail installation if root is the only user (Linux)
- Added automatic socket close on execv (Linux, macOS)
- Fixed Google Drive login hanging after authentication (Linux)
- Correctly generate and parse Windows epoch time (Windows, macOS)
New in FreeFileSync 11.8 (Mar 4, 2021)
- Fixed unexpected file size error when copying to (S)FTP, and Google Drive
- FreeFileSync 11.7 changes:
- Detect moved files on FTP (if server supports MLSD)
- Allow installation only for current or all users (Linux)
- Added application uninstaller: uninstall.sh (Linux)
- Use login user config path when running as root (macOS, Linux)
- Fixed detection of moved files with unstable device IDs (macOS, Linux)
- Strict checking for duplicate file IDs
- Avoid EINVAL invalid argument error when using F_PREALLOCATE (macOS)
- Restore input focus after closing log panel
- Double-click on file to open Google Drive web interface
- Fixed alpha channel image scaling glitch
- Fixed recycle bin folders being created recursively
- Fixed thread count status message fluctuation
- Don't quit FreeFileSync when parent terminal is closed (SIGHUP)
- Fixed "Operation not supported" error when setting directory locks
- Show folder picker despite SHCreateItemFromParsingName() error
- Work around "OLE received a packet with an invalid header" error
New in FreeFileSync 11.7 (Mar 2, 2021)
- Detect moved files on FTP (if server supports MLSD)
- Allow installation only for current or all user(s) (Linux)
- Added application uninstaller: uninstall.sh (Linux)
- Use login user config path when running as root (macOS, Linux)
- Fixed detection of moved files with unstable device IDs (macOS, Linux)
- Strict checking for duplicate file IDs
- Avoid EINVAL invalid argument error when using F_PREALLOCATE (macOS)
- Restore input focus after closing log panel
- Double-click on file to open Google Drive web interface
- Fixed alpha channel image scaling glitch
- Fixed recycle bin folders being created recursively
- Fixed thread count status message fluctuation
- Don't quit FreeFileSync when parent terminal is closed (SIGHUP)
- Fixed "Operation not supported" error when setting directory locks
- Show folder picker despite SHCreateItemFromParsingName() error
- Work around "OLE received a packet with an invalid header" error
New in FreeFileSync 11.6 (Feb 2, 2021)
- Support reading FTP file symlinks
- Preserve keyboard focus when starting sync via F9
- Don't show relative parent path if folder does not exist
- Work around "500 'HELP' command unrecognized" FTP error
- Don't allow folder names ending with dot character (Windows)
- Mitigate ERROR_ALREADY_ASSIGNED: Local Device Name Already in Use [Wnetaddconnection2]
- Fixed RTL layout direction in popup dialogs
New in FreeFileSync 11.5 (Jan 3, 2021)
- New configuration context menu option to delete from disk
- Start auto retry delay at time of error instead of reporting
- Added error details to status message before retry
- Improved color scheme to better integrate with system colors
- Keep partial SFTP results after network failure
- Fixed incorrect panel font (macOS Big Sur)
- Fixed SFTP retry not working after network drop
- Fixed crash on exit with floating panels (macOS Big Sur)
- Fixed auto-close option not being remembered
- Fixed installer high-DPI scaling issues
- Fixed mouse hover issues with grid column header
- Fixed menu bar icons not showing (Linux)
- Removed redundant GUI layout recalculations
- Keep correct panel sizes after log panel maximize
- Support modern folder picker in installer
- Don't raise progress dialog after sync when resuming from systray
New in FreeFileSync 11.4 (Dec 4, 2020)
- New progress graph "this one sparks joy"
- Remember progress dialog size
- New config file context menu option: Show in file manager
- Work around libcurl performance bug during FTP upload
- Only log modification time errors after comparing by size or content
- Smaller icon size for efficient screen layout (Linux)
- Use system-native recycle bin icon
- Fixed DeviceIoControl(IOCTL_VOLUME_GET_VOLUME_DISK_EXTENTS): ERROR_MORE_DATA
- Support MTP devices lacking a friendly name
- Fix grid scrolling with small mouse rotations (macOS)
- Faster mouse scrolling on high-DPI resolution displays
- Keep previous windows size when maximized during auto-exit
New in FreeFileSync 11.3 (Nov 1, 2020)
- Enhanced main grid color scheme
- Mouse-highlight for file selection
- Added file create/delete indicators
- Show file list tooltip for missing items
- Click folder name and scroll to group start
- Log failure to create application default config folder
- Added tooltips and fixed help link context menu
- Fixed tooltip not updated when scrolling (macOS, Linux)
- Move error dialogs to foreground during batch sync
- Align context menu popup positions
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 11.2 (Oct 2, 2020)
- Improved grid layout with file icons hidden
- Improved rendering of inactive and disabled grid items
- Remember last user-selected paths for file and folder pickers
- Fixed folder name hidden in "item name" view type
- Fixed determination of unsupported trash folder (Linux)
- Fixed copying broken symlinks (macOS)
- Fixed default action when pressing Enter in popup dialogs
- Fixed default popup dialog size (macOS)
- Use localized start of week for %WeekDay% (Linux, macOS)
- Swap sides using CTRL+W instead of F10
- Show confirmation dialog before swapping sides
New in FreeFileSync 11.1 (Aug 31, 2020)
- New file group layout on main grid (reloaded)
- Alternate colors for main grid folder groups
- Added file group context menu
- Quick selection of items in folder group
- Fixed FTP access errors with Explicit SSL/TLS
- Fixed Google Drive error when double quotes in file name
- Fixed RTL layout bug with number input control
- Fixed grid column default sizes
- Fixed grid rendering performance during mouse scrolling
- Update all config files transactionally
- Respect user-preferred number/time format (Linux)
- Fixed floating panels not being resizable (Linux)
- Instantly open selection context menu on right mouse button down
- Further improved high DPI support
- Updated deprecated system API calls (requires macOS 10.10 or later)
- Fixed crash when accessing Nexis storage (macOS)
- Avoid buffer flush when aborting native file output
- Clear preview after folder history selection
- Pre-allocate target file without setting size
- Unified system error message formatting
New in FreeFileSync 11.0 (Jul 21, 2020)
- Revised file layout on main grid
- Skip download/upload when copying Google Drive files inside account
- Support moving Google Drive files between shared drives and My Drive
- Support copying Google Drive shortcuts between accounts
- Support copying Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc. within account
- Fixed parsing uninitialized Google Drive modification time
- Fixed Google Drive file already existing check running too late
- Ignore slash/backslash differences during manual search
- Avoid creating orphan database entry if one DB file fails to load
- Limit modification time error count for log file warning message
- Support copying WSL symlinks
- Avoid duplicate MTP/Google Drive item creation from multiple threads
- Fixed TMPDIR not found during startup (macOS)
- Added sync variant icons
- Avoid redundant icon format conversions
- Buffer high-DPI image scaling results
- Improved MTP thumbnail scaling performance
- Avoid race condition during parallel file icon rendering (Linux)
- Allow creating folder name with leading/trailing spaces
New in FreeFileSync 10.25 (Jun 18, 2020)
- New file tree layout for main grid
- Support Google Drive Shared Drives
- Support Google Drive Shortcuts
- Prioritize item name rendering if lacking horizontal space
- Report "out of memory" during startup instead of crashing
- Fixed excess memory consumption when loading variable-size data blocks
- Fixed VERSION_ID missing on Arch Linux
- Fixed IWbemServices::ConnectServer error during auto-update
- Fixed row being skipped during main grid page up/down
- Fixed MSSearch files not found when using Volume Shadow Copy
- Allow creating folder names with trailing dot
- Improved sort by full path speed and folder ordering
- Report detailed error when failing to parse FTP MLSD
- Sort by path component names instead of relative path
- Support access to MEGAcmd FTP server
- Fixed Google Drive error when removing last parent of shared item
- Fixed Google Drive owned+shared files being unlinked instead of deleted
- Fixed Google Drive change notificaton evaluation for item without parents
- Support double-click/"Browse directory" for (S)FTP/Google Drive (Linux)
New in FreeFileSync 10.24 (May 17, 2020)
- Increased SFTP buffer sizes for faster upload/download
- New %WeekDay%, %WeekDayName", and %MonthName% macros
- Support Linux systems without lsb_release
- Don't exclude desktop.ini by default
- Merge error messages of failed error handling
- Added ".DocumentRevisions-V100" to default exclude filter (macOS)
- Fixed deletion error not reported during versioning
- RealTimeSync: don't block when command fails with exit code > 0
- Visualize error status in macOS Dock and Windows Superbar
- Show error code constants on Windows Shell errors
- Suppport ProFTPD with "MultilineRFC2228 on"
- SFTP option to enable/disable zlib compression
New in FreeFileSync 10.23 (Apr 17, 2020)
- Run "on completion" commands on console (no need for "cmd.exe /c")
- Check exit code and report errors for external applications
- Report stream output of failed command line calls (macOs, Linux)
- Use Unicode symbols compatible with older macOS
- RealTimeSync: invoke command using cmd.exe instead of ShellExecute (Windows)
- Avoid hitting log file length limitations for aggregated jobs
- Fix OpenSSL failing on HTTP 1.0 response without Content-Length
- Don't allow creating folder names ending with space or dot
- Support base folders with trailing blanks
- Show system error descriptions on volume shadow copy errors
- Raise exit code if saving log file or sending email failed
- Report all documented MTP error descriptions
- Updated default exclude filter (macOS/Linux)
- Added image outlines for improved dark mode support
- Work around WBEM_E_INVALID_CLASS error during installation
- Align file path rendering with app layout direction
- Play sound notification also when "cancel on first error" is set
- Cleaner file path formatting (macOs, Linux)
- Added instructions when failing to start due to missing GTK2 (Ubuntu)
- RealTimeSync: distinguish drive unmount from folder change notification
- Avoid blocking command scripts waiting for user input
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 10.22 (Mar 18, 2020)
- Fixed upper-case conversion bug for non-ASCII strings
- Preselect last-used email address
- Select log file format (HTML or plain text)
- Aggregate email notifications when hitting sending limits
- Show code literals in system error messages
- Limit conflict item count for log file warning message
- Show log icon error indicator even if error occured after sync
- Disable background drag & drop when showing modal dialog
- Hide dummy model, vendor names in log files
- Fixed ANSI encoding used for log file time formatting
- Reduced memory consumption for large number of log messages
- Correctly parse lock files despite corrupted trail data
- Show emoji instead of Unicode icon in email subject
- Fixed IWbemServices::ConnectServer error after sync
- Fixed aggregate email logs incomplete truncation
New in FreeFileSync 10.21 (Mar 17, 2020)
- Preselect last-used email address
- Select log file format (HTML or plain text)
- Aggregate email notifications when hitting sending limits
- Show code literals in system error messages
- Limit conflict item count for log file warning message
- Show log icon error indicator even if error occured after sync
- Disable background drag & drop when showing modal dialog
- Hide dummy model, vendor names in log files
- Fixed ANSI encoding used for log file time formatting
- Reduced memory consumption for large number of log messages
- Correctly parse lock files despite corrupted trail data
- Show emoji instead of Unicode icon in email subject
- Fixed IWbemServices::ConnectServer error after sync
- Fixed aggregate email logs incomplete truncation
New in FreeFileSync 10.20 (Feb 14, 2020)
- Send email notifications after sync
- Generate log files in HTML format
- Detect sync database consistency errors
- Start log file with preview of first 50 errors/warnings
- Mitigate lock file data corruption
- Print Windows error codes in hexadecimal
- Fixed missing MTP and network links in folder picker (Linux)
- Display versioning and log folder path history
- Display and log all config names for merged configurations
- Run post-sync command synchronously and log exit code
- Fixed crash on Bitvise SFTP servers with zlib delayed compression
- Show actual time out used in failure message
- Show detailed error message when failing to test sound files
- Fixed timeout for long-running FTP uploads by sending keep-alives
- Use Donation Edition on unlimited number of virtual machines
- Ignore accidental clicks in empty space of configuration panel
New in FreeFileSync 10.19 (Dec 27, 2019)
- Unified rendering of disabled grid layouts
- Count moved file pair as one update in view filter buttons
- Fix command button default sizes (Windows)
- Added %item_name%, %item_name2% context menu macros
- Support deleting references to shared Google Drive files
- Trash Google Drive files only when having single parent
- Fixed high DPI scaling issue on image borders
- Preserve system date format for RTL languages
- Fall back to folder path if resource archives are missing
New in FreeFileSync 10.18 (Nov 20, 2019)
- Save/load database files in parallel
- Show item count for each view filter category
- Group config history items via background colors
- Allow grid sort by category and sync action
- Reduced file accesses for faster start up
- Buffer redundant database loads
- Fix ibus initialization hang on Ubuntu 19.10
- Defer showing progress panel for short-lived tasks
- Calculate stable scrollbar dimensions on GTK2
- Log mod time errors even when sync is cancelled
- Show progress and errors when updating sync directions
- Detect MLSD support despite invalid FTP FEAT response
- Improved GUI responsiveness during config load
- Added Vietnamese translation
New in FreeFileSync 10.16 (Sep 17, 2019)
- Redesigned progress indicator graphs
- Avoid needless HTTP delay prior to Google Drive upload
- Skip redundant CWDs during FTP metadata updates
- Fixed MLSD 501 syntax error on Serv-U FTP server
- Check FTP server status using home directory instead of root
- Avoid redundant TYPE changes during FTP directory listing
- Access FTP files by full path and avoid CWDs
- Support FTP home paths with non-ASCII chars
- Workaround libcurl bug failing to buffer FTP TLS authentication
- Skip redundant FTP SIZE check before downloading file
- Use ISO 8601 week of the year definition for %week% macro
- Show login prompt for disconnected NAS share
- Force icon resolution to 96 DPI in GTK2 build (Linux)
- Detect missing full disk access permission (macOS)
- Fixed accessibility issue due to graph color inconsistency
- Use short naming convention when deleting abandoned folder lock
- Detect endless folder lock recursion on buggy file systems
- Fixed Google Drive parsing error for invalid file time
New in FreeFileSync 10.15 (Aug 16, 2019)
- Redesigned progress indicator stats
- Fixed crash when progress dialog is closed right before showing error
- Consider fail-safe file copy when creating sync.ffs_db files
- Prepare support for GTK3 GUI framework (Linux
- Support sound output via SDL (Linux
- Shrink standard system icons if needed (Linux
- Add Windows Defender exclusions asynchronously
- Fixed main dialog out-of-screen position on startup (macOS
- Activated CDN for all web accesses
- Redirect error dialog to stderr during sound playback (Linux
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 10.13 (Jun 14, 2019)
- Allow to rename configurations via context menu
- Work around hang on SMB network with broken FileFullDirectoryInformation
- Work around SMB share returning empty item name
- Detect and preempt keyman64.dll crash on exit
- Manage notification sounds via global options dialog
- Support 32-bit Debian Jessie and later releases
- Work around silent failure to case-only rename on FAT drives (Windows 10)
- Simplified installation folder structure
- Update main grid scrollbars when resizing columns on other side
- Preserve input focus when clicking on grid column label
- Buffer result of process path normalization
- Mirror middle grid icons for RTL layout (Linux)
- Force LTR layout until wxWidgets supports RTL (macOS)
- Fixed pair scrolling mismatch when grid height is exceeded by one row
- Fixed startup failure due to missing /etc/machine-id (Linux)
New in FreeFileSync 10.12 (May 13, 2019)
- Show sync start time and date in progress dialog title
- Added duration of comparison to log
- Show all total times in full HH:MM:SS format
- Added sync start time to log file header
- Add Windows Defender exclusions to fix CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEDOUT
- New RealTimeSync option to hide console window
- Support launching through symlink (Windows)
- Dropped support for Windows XP, Server 2003, and Vista
- Reduced installation size by 25%
New in FreeFileSync 10.11 (Apr 11, 2019)
- Last FreeFileSync version supporting Windows XP and Vista
- Fixed crash on multi-monitor set up
- Fixed dialogs not showing after opening UAC prompt
- Support launching through symlink (Linux)
- Added example desktop starter files (Linux)
- Fixed misleading error when determining file permissions support
- Updated wxWidgets, libcurl, libssh2, VS, GCC, Xcode
New in FreeFileSync 10.10 (Mar 10, 2019)
- New option: synchronize selection
- Dynamically disable unsuitable context menu options
- Support MTP devices without move command
- Fall back to copy/delete when implicitly moving to different device (e.g. symlink)
- Fixed incorrect statistics after parallel move
- Fixed menu button not triggering context menu
- Fixed crash on focus change while message popup is dismissed
- Fixed crash when trying to shrink empty image
- Fixed invisible dialogs when monitor is turned off in multi-monitor setup
- Work around GetFileInformationByHandle error code 58 on WD My Cloud EX
- Changing deletion handling now correctly triggers updated config
- Support root-relative FTP file paths (e.g. FreeNAS)
- Move and rename MTP items as a transaction
- Exclude AppleDouble files (._) via default filter on macOS
- Support home path for FTP folder picker
- Use server default permissions when creating SFTP folder
- Use native OpenSSL AES-CTR rather than libssh2 fallback
- Added context information for cloud connection errors
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 10.9 (Feb 10, 2019)
- Added FTP, SFTP, Google Drive support for Linux
- FreeFileSync Donation Edition available for Linux
- Compress file stream during Google Drive upload
- Navigate beyond access-denied parents in SFTP folder picker
- Fixed unexpected stream size error during FTP upload
- Support native recursive deletion for Google Drive
- Support native recursive deletion for MTP
- Deterministically save Google Drive state during exit
- Work around missing TMPDIR variable (Linux)
- Support SFTP servers returning large package sizes during folder reading
- Start with home path when using SFTP folder picker
- Aggregate device authentication prompts during comparison
- Clean up temp file after unexpected stream size error
- Work around FTP servers not supporting HELP command
- Support parsing path by volume name when volume is missing
- Parse and streamline Google Drive error messages
- Load next item after deleting from config history
- Avoid redundant Google Drive syncs after file/folder creation
- Avoid duplicate MTP item creation by multiple threads
New in FreeFileSync 10.8 (Jan 15, 2019)
- Latest changes:
- Support synchronization with Google Drive
- Keep sync directions when changing versioning/deletion
- Save last sync time before shutting down system
- Avoid dependency on file id to detect duplicate folders
- Check if path exists before creating duplicate MTP folder
- Check for empty MTP item name during folder traversal
- Check if MTP items are referenced by the same path
- Support MTP devices requiring modTime for file creation
- Fixed sync config GUI distortion when toggling auto retry
- Fixed FreeFileSync sort order in Windows Uninstall
- Fixed log override path being squashed on high DPI
- Fixed volume serial not considered when file id is missing
New in FreeFileSync 10.7 (Dec 12, 2018)
- Resolve ambiguous paths in (S)FTP folder picker
- Fixed path alias check to not rely on volume serial
- Check already existing move target by ID instead of path
- Use native image conversion routines in installer
- Added base folder info for unresolved conflicts message
- Avoid silent failure when setting epoch modTime
- Fixed parsing locale with unexpected format
- Fixed RealTimeSync failing to start FreeFileSync batch
- Exclude failed item paths containing backslash in names
- Fixed RealTimeSync GUI distortion after drag & drop
- Support command arguments and exit code with launcher
- Consider UTF encoding when trimming long temp name during file copy
New in FreeFileSync 10.6 (Nov 13, 2018)
- Detect and skip traversing folder path aliases
- Conflict when Unicode normalization forms differ
- Unified 32 and 64 bit into single package (Linux)
- Notarized application package (macOS)
- Save configuration files in user-specific paths (Linux)
- Use XDG-style config file paths (Linux)
- Fixed (fake) intermittent hangs during comparison
- Detect SMB mount points as separate devices (Linux)
- Consider /mnt subfolders as device root paths (Linux)
- Create missing default log folder upon first run
- Don't consider final status for error/warning count
- Discard invalid SFTP session after max channel test
- Fixed main dialog position not being remembered
- Fixed imprecise FTP times due to MLST parsing issue
- Fixed application menu not being localized (macOS)
- Fixed temp file name hitting file system length limitations
- Fixed fatal errors not being written to console (Debian Linux)
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 10.5 (Oct 12, 2018)
- New file matching considering Unicode normalization
- User-configurable timeout for FTP and SFTP
- Obsoleted old CHM manual in favor of PDF
- Unicode-normalized, faster case-insensitive grid search
- New button to save current view filter settings as default
- Both slash/backslash can be used in filter expressions
- Improved Unicode case conversion routines
- Keyboard shortcuts for swap sides (F10) and view (F11)
- Fixed shutdown crash when accessing destroyed state
- Fixed file grid column order not being preserved
- Fixed FTP parsing error due to invalid folder time
New in FreeFileSync 10.4 (Sep 10, 2018)
- Allow overriding log folder path for gui and batch runs
- Fixed RTS not triggering for volume path by name
- Fixed reading FTP folders including wildcard chars
- Fixed image overlay graphics glitch (Linux)
- Don't show error if versioning folder is not yet existing
- Fixed crash removing folder pair before comparison (F5)
- Fixed crash when parent of newly-moved file is missing
- Fixed statistics when folder containing moved files is found missing
New in FreeFileSync 10.3 (Aug 7, 2018)
- New log panel showing details about the last operation
- Show status of last syncs in configuration panel
- Access log files via the configuration panel
- Allow auto-retry and ignore errors during comparison
- Show folder RealTimeSync is waiting on
- New %logfile_path% macro for "on completion"
- Show errors and warnings count in log file header
- Fixed crash when resizing panel during comparison
- Fixed folders created hidden when source is root
- Use steady clock while waiting in RealTimeSync
- Fixed folder access error with Google Drive File Stream
- Open global log folder path via options dialog
- Limit global logs by age instead of size
- Deprecated batch-level log files and LastSyncs.log
New in FreeFileSync 10.2 (Jul 6, 2018)
- Limit number of file versions by age and count
- Report not yet existing folders as warning instead of error
- Improved comparison speed for high-latency traversals
- Set up parallel file operations for versioning folder
- Early clean up to avoid hitting (S)FTP connection limits
- Support FTP servers with ANSI encoding
- Fixed folder drag and drop for modal dialogs
- Fixed progress graph glitch due to unsteady system clock
- Unbuffered folder lock file existence checking
- Fixed macOS Donation Ed. not recognized after rename
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 10.1 (Jun 4, 2018)
- Binary-compare multiple files in parallel
- Copy file permissions when creating base folders
- Fixed hang when scrolling file list (Windows)
- Fixed file list mismatch when cancelling sync
- Fixed delay when cancelling folder existence check
- Fixed sync processing order to honor FIFO
- Fixed startup delay when internet is offline (Linux, macOS)
- Fixed crash when closing via the macOS Dock
- Support installation without admin rights (macOS)
- Fixed bcrypt.dll not found on startup (Windows XP)
- Respect Content-Length header for HTTP requests
- Support parallel folder traversal on Ubuntu 16.4
- Fixed missing shared library dependencies (Linux)
- Unified precompiled Linux binary packages
New in FreeFileSync 10.0 (Apr 27, 2018)
- The installer is now ad-free!
- Sync multiple files in parallel (Donation Edition)
- Compare multiple files in parallel within a single folder tree
- Aggregate worker threads per device during traversal
- Reset GUI layout configuration for high DPI displays
- Keep GUI responsive during synchronization
- Remember maximum number of visible folder pairs
- Fixed high DPI issues in installer
- Don't delay errors by callback interval during comparison
- Concurrent intermediate folder creation for versioning
- Sync all folder level items before recursion (avoid CWDs)
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 9.9 (Mar 9, 2018)
- High DPI display support
- Allow automatic retry at configuration level
- Show error handling settings during sync
- Avoid libpng.so dependency (Linux)
- Fixed undefined behavior closing paused progress dialog
- Check if buggy DLLs are loaded into address space
- Fixed FTP parsing error for Windows CE device
- Workaround VSS provider implementation bug
- Respect macOS user settings for date/thousands separator
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 9.8 (Feb 6, 2018)
- New option to auto-close progress dialog
- Update last sync time if no differences found
- Added 5 seconds countdown before shutdown/sleep
- Preserve XML attribute creation order
- Support HTTPS web accesses without redirect
- Connect network share upon logon type not granted
- Fixed invalid pointer error when reading MTP
- Fixed temporary db file triggering RealTimeSync
- Fixed runtime error during uninstallation
- Continue status updates during sync cancellation
- Log number of items found during comparison
- Warn about outdated nviewH64.dll instead of crashing
- Show default log file path when saving a batch job
- Consider only full days for time since last sync
New in FreeFileSync 9.7 (Jan 13, 2018)
- New configuration management panel
- New column showing days since last sync
- Support starting FreeFileSync via Windows Send To
- Minimized memory operations for I/O buffer
- New command line option -DirPair
- Show only one warning about failed directory locks
- Show correct sync time when resuming from sleep
- Don't resolve symlinks that are dropped via mouse
- Detect and notify LCMapString compatibility mode bug
- Fixed incorrect file permissions within macOS bundle
New in FreeFileSync 9.6 (Dec 7, 2017)
- New installation command line option /disable_updates
- Fixed crash when closing main dialog during sync
- Fixed RealTimeSync crash after recursive mutex locking
- Clean up obsolete files during installation
- Avoid main dialog flash after minimized sync
- Disable file list export until after comparison
- Directly close progress dialog during sync
- Redirect escape key from main dialog to progress dialog
- Fixed startup delay during consistency checks
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 9.5 (Nov 6, 2017)
- Allow to change error handling option on progress dialogs
- Set up shutdown behavior during sync (summary, exit, sleep)
- Conditional execution of the post sync command line
- Directly use native shutdown/sleep API
- Run post sync command even when fail on first error was set
- Merged batch and GUI error handling options
- Write post sync command to log file
- Update GUI-specific options when saving as batch job
- Progress graph area matches processed data ratio
- Delete files permanently with Shift+Del
- Apply correct quotation for CSV-exported folder list
- Use Unicode arrow chars with ASCII for variant description
- Updated libcurl, OpenSSL to latest builds
New in FreeFileSync 9.4 (Oct 5, 2017)
- Fixed copying files with locked byte ranges using VSS
- Fixed wrong FTP working directory reuse in libcurl
- Allow retry upon failure during online update check
- Repackaged Donation Edition to reduce AV false positives
- Apply correct directory path encoding during FTP traversal
- Fixed strict weak ordering for SFTP session ID sorting
- Clean up read-only temporaries during failed sparse file copy
- Fixed access denied file copy error for ADS
- Workaround broken SMB servers reporting sparse support
- Support hash characters in FTP directory listing
- Prepared auto-updater to support new installer format
- Refined installer error reporting
- Streamlined sync config dialogs
- Resized installer window dimensions
New in FreeFileSync 9.3 (Aug 9, 2017)
- Support multiple connections per FTP folder traversal: N times speed up
- Improved folder traversal time by 35% for FTP servers supporting MLSD
- Use single CWD when changing FTP working directory
- Maximize FTP input/output speed using prefetch/output buffers and async execution
- Use larger socket buffer for significant FTP upload speed increase
- Fixed out of memory error when copying large files via FTP
- New popup dialog option to ignore all errors
- Reduced memory peaks by enforcing streaming buffer size limits
- Removed custom sync directions from config XML if not needed
- Fixed EOPNOTSUPP error on gvfs-mounted FTP (Linux)
- Prevent input focus stealing after manual comparison
- Flash task bar after comparison if other app has input focus
New in FreeFileSync 9.2 (Jul 3, 2017)
- Use direct copy instead of transaction to speed up versioning
- Replaced file existing handling with use of unique temporary names
- Support SFTP authentication via Pageant/SSH agent
- New menu option to restore hidden panels individually
- Fixed GTK button icon being truncated (Linux)
- Fixed error dialog hiding behind progress dialog (macOS)
- Round out FTP symlink deletion handling
- Support four-digit year format on IIS FTP
- Fixed FTP parsing error for epoch time on Windows server
- Narrow contract for file system abstraction regarding existing files
- Treat failure to load database as error rather than warning
- Save root folder access for certain FTP path checks
New in FreeFileSync 9.1 (May 24, 2017)
- Fixed crash when getting invalid data after item type check
- Fixed copying symlinks pointing to network folders
- Support resolving network paths in the NT namespace
- Support FTP servers with broken MLST command (Pure-FTPd)
- Fixed FTP access error on file names containing special chars
- Include raw FTP server response in error message
- Quickly check server connection using a single FEAT
- Don't change working directory when sending a single FTP command
- Support FTP Unix listings missing group name
- Support RFC-2640-non-compliant FTP servers having UTF8 disabled
- Support FTP servers returning non-routable IP in PASV response
- Support IPv6 when establishing FTP connections
- Start external application keyboard shortcuts with zero
New in FreeFileSync 9.0 (Apr 18, 2017)
- Support synchronization via FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and FTPS (SSL/TLS)
- Notify failure to set modification time as a warning instead of an error
- Allow intermediate non-folder components when checking path status
- Prevent file drop events from propagating to parent windows
- Create Downloads folder if not yet existing when running auto-updater
- Get all MTP input stream attributes as a single device access
- Improved SFTP input stream copying time by 20%
- Buffer (S)FTP sessions based on all login information
- Finalize all installation steps before showing finished page
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 8.10 (Mar 12, 2017)
- Fully preserve case-sensitive file paths (Windows, macOS)
- Support SFTP connections to local hosts
- Warn if versioning folder is contained in a base folder
- Use natural string sorting algorithm for item lists
- Consider exclude filter settings for folder dependency checks
- Fixed file not found error on case-sensitive SFTP volume
- Fixed failure when creating MTP sub directories
- Fixed crash when loading database file during comparison
- Refactored UTF conversion routines
- Use pipe symbol as filter separator instead of semicolon
- Iterate over all matching SFTP connections available on a server (macOS)
- Reduced folder matching time by 12%, average memory use by 11%
- Added experimental FTP support
New in FreeFileSync 8.9 (Feb 8, 2017)
- Detect when database file was copied and avoid "second part missing" error
- Further reduced size of database files by 20%
- Reduced amortized number of file operations during versioning
- Added database file consistency checks to catch unexpected number of stream associations
- Improved file I/O by detecting cross-device moves via path
- Fixed path parsing failure when creating MTP directories
- Implemented buffered stream I/O abstraction to prepare for FTP
- Generalized file path handling for abstract file system implementations
- Warn about outdated AvmSnd.dll before crashing during sound playback
- Refactored OpenSSL and libssh2 initialization/shutdown
New in FreeFileSync 8.8 (Jan 8, 2017)
- Distinguish file access failure from not existing during sync
- Further optimized number of file I/O operations via file system abstraction
- Report unexpected prompts for keyboard-interactive SFTP authentication
- Mark followed directory symlinks on grid
- Fixed parent path determination for UNC
- Don't skip source files that cannot be accessed
- Don't consider a symlink type for SFTP when comparing by content
- Fixed invalid parameter error when setting file times on exFAT file system
- Don't allow overwriting folder with equally named file when copying from main dialog
- Fixed failure to create intermediate directories for Cryptomator/Webdav
- Refactored file system abstraction layer for future FTP support
- Fixed failure to change file name case on MTP devices
- Fixed late failure for batch recycling when parsing of single item fails
New in FreeFileSync 8.7 (Dec 6, 2016)
- New auto-updater feature for FreeFileSync Donation Edition
- Download zip archive of portable FreeFileSync Donation Edition
- New command line options to define parameters for silent installation
- Support offline activation for portable Donation Edition
- Use automatic keyboard-interactive SFTP authentication as fallback
- Check for available SFTP authentication methods before login
- Support cloud sync of portable edition installation files
- Access donation transaction details from about dialog
- Use width from flexible grid column when showing/hiding extra columns
- Show item short names in middle column tooltip
- Enhanced file category descriptions with modification times
- Don't warn about missing recycle bin when only moving or updating attributes
- Fixed crash when switching to main dialog during batch sync
New in FreeFileSync 8.6 (Oct 25, 2016)
- Support SFTP authentication via public/private key
- Remember configuration history scroll position
- SFTP folder picker supports browsing hidden folders
- Fixed failure to copy files with corrupted ADS
- Increase config history default size to 100 items
- Auto-close FreeFileSync processes before uninstallation
- Simplified SFTP configuration syntax
- Fixed update check sending incomplete keep-alive header
- Detailed error reporting after failed web access
- Suggest folder path macro substitutions also at inner positions
New in FreeFileSync 8.5 (Sep 18, 2016)
- Support multiple SSH connections per SFTP folder traversal: N times speed up
- Support multiple SFTP channels per SSH connection: additional N times speed up
- Fixed installer crashes by using correct DEP-compatibility
- Fixed notification area icon being generated too often
- Thread-safe SFTP deinitialization on shutdown
- Thread-safe mini-dump creation during shutdown
- Fixed case-insensitive migration of new csidl macro names
- Reduced SFTP access serialization overhead
- Buffer SFTP sessions independently from usage context
- Detect and discard timed-out SSH sessions
- Pre-empt SFTP session disconnect via dedicated SFTP cleanup thread
- Run SFTP tasks directly on worker threads without helper thread overhead
New in FreeFileSync 8.4 (Aug 12, 2016)
- Mark temporary copies created by %local_path% read-only
- Fixed crash when accessing Bitvise SFTP Servers
- Support nanosecond-precision file time copying (Linux)
- Start maximized instead of in full screen mode (OS X)
- Fixed crash while setting privileges during shutdown
- Fixed crash when failing to clean up log files
- Fixed EOPNOTSUPP error when copying file to gvfs Samba share (Linux)
- Fixed default external applications command line (Linux)
- Thread-safe translation change even during app shutdown
- Don't consider port and password when comparing SFTP paths
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 8.3 (Jul 9, 2016)
- Make temporary local copy for non-native file paths: %local_path%
- Support selections from both grid sides at a time for external applications
- New external application macros: %item_path%, %folder_path%, %item_path2%, %folder_path2%
- Migrate external application commands to new macro syntax
- Support reverse grid search (Shift + F3)
- Don't condense empty sub folders on overview panel
- Show changelog delta in update notification
- Center modal dialogs after layout redetermination
- Warn about portable installation into programs folder
- Calculate default message dialog height depending on screen size
- Don't substitute external applications path for empty base folder
- Fixed prolonged tooltip time not being evaluated
New in FreeFileSync 8.2 (May 31, 2016)
- Unified item path representation on main grid
- New progress indicator control for binary comparison
- Fixed crash on exit when accessing already destructed constant
- Fixed crash when FreeFileSync is still running during OS shutdown
- Fixed crash on startup due to missing root certificates
- Work around start up crash on Windows installations missing certain patches
- Fixed in-place progress panel height being trimmed
- Support drawing arbitrary polyons with graph control
- Apply Posix file name normalization (OS X)
- Normalize keyboard input encoding for all text fields (OS X)
- Report errors when cleaning up old log files
- Integrate external app WinMerge if installation is found
New in FreeFileSync 8.1 (Apr 21, 2016)
- Follow shell links during drag and drop on main dialog (Windows)
- Significantly improved main grid rendering performance
- Log info about non-default global settings
- Establish new network connections only when needed (Windows)
- Show only a single login dialog per network share
- Show login dialogs for the same network address one after another
- Fixed endless recursion for paths containing certain unicode characters (OS X)
- Support using portable version without direct installation
- Fixed access denied error when verifying read-only target file (Windows)
- New global option for sound cue after comparison
- Updated help file
New in FreeFileSync 8.0 (Mar 17, 2016)
- Fine-tuned buffer sizes for 70% improved SFTP stream I/O speed
- Support incomplete read/write operations while maximizing buffer saturation
- Automatically check consistency of FreeFileSync installation
- Fixed crash when using SFTP on CPUs without SSE2 support
- Improved GUI responsiveness during SFTP I/O
- Disabled automatic quote substitution for file filter (OS X)
- Work around invalid parameter error on FAT drives for broken create times
- Avoid filter mismatches by using precomposed UTF (OS X)
- Fixed main dialog close button not being disabled during sync (OS X)
- Don't create AppleDouble files if extended attributes are unsupported (OS X)
- Set content format metadata when copying to an MTP device
- Fixed F-keys not working in sync config dialog (Linux)
- Revert to default button margin values (Linux)
- Fixed crash when thumbnail loading fails on MTP device
- Fixed main grids not scrolling in parallel during mouse selection
- Revert to default scaling for non-dpi-aware apps
- Integrate FreeFileSync online manual
- Added Slovak translation
New in FreeFileSync 7.9 (Feb 13, 2016)
- New comparison variant: compare by file size
- Buffer SFTP read/write accesses for optimal packet sizes
- Configure folder access time out via GlobalSettings.xml
- Drag and drop config files anywhere on main dialog
- Work around "argument list too long" file copy error (OS X)
- Work around "invalid argument" file copy error (OS X)
- Support case-change when syncing to case-sensitive SFTP (Windows)
- Select between sync completion sounds gong/harp.wav
- Set up sync completion sound file in GlobalSettings.xml
- Validate monitoring data to avoid RealTimeSync crash
- Updated help file
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 7.8 (Jan 4, 2016)
- Corectly resolve environment variables containing MTP paths
- Support at and colon characters in SFTP user name
- New context buttons for quick sync config changes
- Report specific error during folder existence check when starting sync
- Fail lately when traversing available MTP devices
- Correctly handle SFTP time-out error when checking folder existence
- Updated on completion command lines for log off/standby/shut down (Linux)
- Support HTML POST redirection for update checks
- Calculate UTC file times like Windows Explorer for MTP devices
- Don't reuse timed-out SFTP sessions with thread affinity
- Workaround SFTP session hang after unsupported statvfs command
- Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.2e
New in FreeFileSync 7.7 (Dec 2, 2015)
- Support variable drive letters for config history when using FreeFileSync portable
- Skip non-storage functional objects at MTP device level
- Log and show error messages without hanging when running as a service
- Navigate between sync settings panels with arrow keys
- Fixed volume shadow copy file path generation
- Handle integer overflows when comparing file times
- Ignore more than one file time shift
- Reworked grid to support mouse highlight areas
- Allow minute precision for file time shifts
- Warn about unsupported MTP and SFTP paths in RealtimeSync
- Strip superfluous mode parameters when creating a directory (Linux, OS X)
- Correctly detect system language for English UK
- Store program language by name to handle changing ids
- Fixed crash during application exit after using SFTP
New in FreeFileSync 7.6 (Nov 2, 2015)
- Create missing synchronization base folders only on demand
- Improved main grid text search performance by 40%
- Prevent creation of irregular folder names
- Support MTP devices over WiFi with null modification times
- Use buffered lock file I/O
- Correctly setup OpenSSL for multithreaded use
- Added COM initialization for worker threads
- Forward focus to sync button after comparison
- Streamlined file system abstraction layer interfaces
New in FreeFileSync 7.5 (Oct 1, 2015)
- Detect moved files on source even for targets with no (SFTP) or unstable (FAT) file id support
- Improved performance for detection of moved files by over 50%
- Added folder picker to select SFTP paths
- Support additional SFTP ciphers by building upon OpenSSL backend
- Added 10-seconds time out when SFTP command is hanging indefinitely
- Work around unexpected SFTP session termination on Synology servers
- Fixed various libssh2 and OpenSSL memory leaks
- Fixed FreeFileSync taskbar link reuse (Windows 7)
- Avoid last error code being overwritten by certain C runtimes before evaluation
- Run online update check asynchronously (Windows)
- Check folder recursion limit to catch stack overflows
- Doubled potential folder traversal recursion depth (Windows)
- Consider child elements of excluded folders during database clean up
New in FreeFileSync 7.4 (Sep 1, 2015)
- Switch between all folder pair configurations directly in the sync config dialog
- Support macros, path by volume name for config files on command line
- Support slash as path separator on command line
- Allow slash as path separator in filter dialog
- Discard SFTP connection after 20 seconds of idle time
- New keyboard shortcuts to open external applications
- Fixed disabled button icons not being updated in the config dialog
- Fixed launcher error messages not being shown (Windows XP)
- Fixed launcher showing incorrect error about missing service pack (Windows XP)
- Revised help file and consolidated into online help
New in FreeFileSync 7.3 (Aug 3, 2015)
- New context menu option to copy selected files to alternate folder (create diffs)
- Fill a folder pair by dropping two folders at a time from Explorer
- Added option to set non-standard SFTP port
- Prevent recursive creation of temporary Recycle Bin directories
- Retrieve grid column label colors from the system
- Fixed config saved status not updating when changing certain settings
- Support for high dpi display settings
- Fixed crash when help viewer is open during exit
- Show manual deletion progress within comparison status panel
- Further reduced number of file accesses during versioning
- Fixed folder picker failing to select Desktop folder
New in FreeFileSync 7.2 (Jul 2, 2015)
- Support synchronization with SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol)
- Detailed error reporting when checking folder existence
- Synchronize MTP devices with no modification time support
- Set focus to comparison button on startup
- Fixed transactional stream clean up error if target file already existing
- Fixed incomplete input stream clean up on fadvise failure (Linux)
- Consider non-native paths for direct comparison after startup
- Revised algorithm generating folder pair display name
- Reduced number of file accesses during versioning
- Stricter language file consistency checking
- Resolved crash when running Windows 7 on CPUs without SSE2
- Improved Minidump creation handling stack overflows
- Revised path formatting to always match native representation
- Fixed about dialog layout for large font sizes
- Support Minidump creation for Windows XP
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 7.1 (Jun 8, 2015)
- Avoid various access denied errors when synchronizing with admin rights (Windows)
- Accept Explorer drag and drop from MTP devices
- Support showing MTP files with Explorer
- Support opening MTP files with default application
- Preselect active MTP folder in folder picker dialog
- Work around file not found error when copying alternate data streams
- Fixed access denied error when copying file times (Linux)
- Work around boost bug causing RealtimeSync to wake PC (Windows)
- Fixed naming convention "replace" for versioning
- Skip space pre-allocation if not supported (OS X)
- Use faster space pre-allocation method (Linux)
- Transactional error handling when closing file streams
- Fully initialize system image list for medium and large icons (Windows)
- Handle XP backwards-compatibility with 32-bit build (Windows 64-bit)
- Work around hang due to unsupported AVX2 instructions (Vista 64-bit)
- Fixed invalid argument exception during app launch (OS X)
- Fixed binary comparison checking for wrong buffer size
- Fixed GetLogicalProcessorInformation not found startup error (Windows XP SP2)
- Support IP-based UNC paths with folder selector (Windows)
- Use standard file permissions for application bundle (OS X)
- Updated help file and added tips and tricks chapter
New in FreeFileSync 7.0 (May 12, 2015)
- Support synchronization with MTP devices (Android, iPhone, tablet, digital camera)
- Implemented file system abstraction layer
- New database format supporting generic file ids
- Pre-allocate disk space when writing file output stream
- Late failure when moving multiple items to recycle bin
- Keep UI responsive while loading/saving database file
- Improved error reporting indicating failed item when moving to recycle bin
- Transactional error handling when closing file streams
- Pass correct thread id when creating Minidump
- Fixed RealtimeSync message provider exception safety issue
- Avoid locking issues by creating the log file after batch synchronization
- Fall back to file extension during file icon load error
- Show file icon by extension as temporary placeholder
New in FreeFileSync 6.15 (Apr 14, 2015)
- Revert to log file naming convention without colon character
- Prevent endless recursion when traversing into folder on corrupt file system
- Fixed view filter button rendering issue for RTL languages
- Fixed grid losing far scroll positions when increasing icon sizes
- Flush file buffers before verifying file copy
- Update existing items when retrying failed folder traversal
- Harmonized bitmap file loading by removing format variance
- Fixed invalid argument error when setting file times (Linux)
- Fixed application hang when loading icon for named pipe (Linux)
- Improved file copy read-ahead performance (Linux)
- Use native file I/O for stream operations (Linux, OS X)
- Fixed file copy creating zero-sized files (OS X)
- Automatically create Minidump files during an application crash (Windows)
- Check for missing service pack to help diagnose crash (Windows 7)
- New menu item with download link after a version update
- Work around C-function memory race condition when formatting time
- Added Hindi language
New in FreeFileSync 6.14 (Feb 11, 2015)
- New buttons allow changing the order of folder pairs
- New keyboard shortcuts for rearranging folder pairs
- Preserve comparison results when deleting a specific folder pair
- Allow inserting new folder pairs into the middle of the list
- Append status to log file names when warnings occur
- Don't interrupt immediate comparison when starting a .ffs_gui file for slow devices
- Fixed incorrect parameter error when checking recycle bin on drive mounted with Paragon ExtFS (Windows)
- Use colon as time stamp seperator in log file names
- Refactored basic low-level file traversal routine
- Optimized file icon startup procedure
New in FreeFileSync 6.13 (Jan 12, 2015)
- Fixed crash when failing to create log file during batch run
- Show directory traversal errors as conflict category on grid
- Improved file filter behavior for certain edge cases when updating the database
- Fixed crash when task scheduler ends FreeFileSync after a certain time (Windows)
- Don't show alternative folder paths if volume name is empty
- Support silent installation for Inno Setup (Windows)
- Fixed failure to permanently delete directories containing symlinks
- Optimized construction of merged path filters
- Exclude items subject to traversal errors when updating the database
New in FreeFileSync 6.12 (Dec 2, 2014)
- New "Actions" menu bar entry with basic operations
- Fixed crash after comparison while needlessly copying traveral results
- Support auto-updater URL redirection (Linux, OS X)
- Merged installer translations into .lng files
- Fully translated FreeFileSync context menu options and file types in Windows Explorer
- More structured symlink handling options
- Scroll to active selection in config list box on startup
- Fixed delete key to remove items in config history panel (OS X)
- Fixed language file parser showing incorrect row on error
- Fixed crash during sync due to unsupported SSE instructions (Server 2003, XP 64-bit)
- Fixed startup error due to invalid handle type
- Always log folder pair paths even if there is nothing to sync
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 6.11 (Nov 4, 2014)
- Updated Recycle Bin access for Windows 10
- New command line option "-edit" to load configuration without executing
- Case-insensitive command line argument evaluation
- New Explorer context menu options for ffs_gui, ffs_batch files
- Added sync variant to folder pair info in log file
- Don't process and log folder pair if nothing to do except writing DB file
- Fixed liblzma.5.dylib not found during startup (OS X 10.8)
- Added version info to application bundles (OS X)
- Fixed incorrect warning when configuration contains empty folder pairs
- Replaced misleading inotify error message "No space left on device" (Linux)
- Fixed FreeFileSync launcher blocking app folder move (OS X)
- Updated default main dialog layout
- Fixed async error evaluation when creating volume shadow copies
- Keep user interface responsive while creating a volume shadow copy
- Fixed error when starting asynchronously from a batch script
- Show progress of writing log files
- Fixed updated file being left deleted when copying permission failed
- New Project website: http://www.freefilesync.org/
New in FreeFileSync 6.10 (Oct 2, 2014)
- Fixed crash when accessing recycle bin in compatibility mode (Windows 7, 8)
- Draw middle grid selection irrespective of focus column
- Don't show parts of progress graph if nothing to sync
- Break on missing directories before evaluating warnings
- Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in search panel
- Disable search panel during comparison
- Disable shortkeys during comparison
- Log folder pair only if files are synced
- Fixed number separator formatting for english locale
- Copying locked files now inactive by default
- Show all affected folders when warning about a shared sub folder
New in FreeFileSync 6.9 (Sep 2, 2014)
- Reuse FreeFileSync taskbar link when available (Windows 7)
- Limit number of retries when creating temporary files
- Fixed bitmap rendering issue for high-contrast color schemes
- Revised and fixed unclear GUI texts
- Updated deprecated system call when suspending idle (OS X)
- Fixed retry when failing to determine recycle bin status
- Added progress graph legend
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 6.8 (Aug 1, 2014)
- New comparison option to ignore file time shift in hours
- Tentatively disabled DST hack affecting FAT file creation times
- New menu option to reset gui layout
- File sizes ignore sync direction in overview panel
- Sort by file name also sorts folder names
- Main grid column "full path" includes file name
- Always position comparison progress below main buttons
- Fixed high-precision tick count calculations
- Fully restart directory traversal on errors
New in FreeFileSync 6.7 (Jul 1, 2014)
- Redesigned comparison progress statistics
- Fixed crash when loading incompatible config file
- Added button to config panel
- Avoid sync progress dialog repositioning
- Resolved crash when loading sync settings for Arabic locale
- Restored cancel button width
- Help window not forced to float over main dialog
- Fixed overwriting old-format batch files
- Harmonized view category sequence
- Merged similar translation items
- Fixed crash when scrolling help file without focus
New in FreeFileSync 6.6 (Jun 2, 2014)
- Fixed large font size standard button layout
- Fixed config dialog graphics glitch with large font sizes
- Exit FreeFileSync launcher process during update
- Exclude temporary files from RealtimeSync monitor
- Installer adds RealtimeSync link to desktop (Windows)
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 6.5 (May 2, 2014)
- Support preview for RAW CR2 image files (Windows Vista and later)
- Fixed startup exception when using task scheduler (Windows XP)
- Correctly resolve SystemRoot NT path syntax for symbolic links
- Fixed incorrect error codes being reported (Windows XP)
- Fixed config dialog shortcut key presses getting lost (OS X)
- Allow vertical layout for top button panel
- Code cleanup: removed support for old database and XML config formats
- Center sync progress dialog
- Updated help file
New in FreeFileSync 6.4 (Apr 2, 2014)
- Combined comparison, filter and sync config dialogs
- Support alternate GlobalSettings.xml file via command line
- Toggle between config panels with F6, F7, F8
- Show config status icons in notebook panel caption
- Redesigned configuration dialog layouts
- Fixed startup error after moving installation directory
- Fixed retry on failure to resolve path by volume name
- Resolved ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS when creating temporary recycle bin subdirectory
- Added "save as gui job" button on main dialog
- Added Bulgarian language
New in FreeFileSync 6.3 (Mar 2, 2014)
- No wait time anymore while searching for recycle bin (Windows Vista and later)
- Revised synchronization progress graph
- Clean up "On completion" considering last usage
- Resolved static initialization order issues
- Reduced disk accesses when resolving directory name
- Added view filter labels
- Updated translation files
- Updated help file
New in FreeFileSync 6.2 (Feb 3, 2014)
- New synchronization progress graph
- Skip binary comparison for files excluded via time span or size
- Fixed configuration panel ordering for entries starting with numbers
- Filled gap after last grid column to cover full window width
- Workaround wxWidgets image button bug showing obsolete disabled state
- Refined file existence checks to handle restricted permissions
- Disable file filter button during comparison
- Fixed mouse wheel grid scrolling for GTK2 (Linux)
- Avoid dummy texts during progress dialog init (OS X)
- Translated external application default commands in global settings
- Support cancel while encoding extended time information
- Highlight non-zero synchronization statistics
New in FreeFileSync 6.1 (Jan 3, 2014)
- Handle errors loading reference batch config
- Disable user mode exception swallowing for Windows 7 SP1
- Always exclude root nodes on manual selection when excluded items are hidden
- Fixed showing duplicate custom "on completion" commands
- Close old directory handle first before executing directory traversal fallback
- Show negative batch synchronization result in log file name
- Avoid file system race when creating temporary files
- Transfer creation and modification times on folder creation
New in FreeFileSync 6.0 (Dec 2, 2013)
- Revised main dialog panel layout
- Show arrow icon for shortcut files and symlinks
- Execute the "on completion" command asynchronously
- Resolved invalid grid background when context menu is shown
- Set negative file time tolerance to disable file time check
- Optimized sequence of steps when saving database files
- Prevent temporary incorrect statistics after unexpected increase in workload
- Fixed default height when mixing panels with and without caption on main dialog
- New view filter button "show excluded items"
- New keyboard shortcuts for file filter and sync settings
- Removed libpng15.so dependency for openSUSE 13.1
- Updated help file
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 5.23 (Nov 1, 2013)
- Allow sorting root nodes on overview panel
- Support retry on failure to resolve path by volume name
- Copy high-precision modification times for files and symlinks
- Align top panel height with comparison and sync buttons
- Show lock owner while waiting on a locked directory
- Resolved help file W3C validation issues
- Fixed high contrast accessibility issues in help
- Fixed crash for CPUs without SSE2 when using VSS (Windows XP)
- Prevent progress statistics timer overflow
- Save RealtimeSync settings before forced exit due to shutdown or log off
- Resolved contract violation error due to out of memory
- RealtimeSync does not block system shutdown anymore
- Added "select all" context menu option for progess log
- Handle progress log keyboard input ignoring input focus
- Fixed category icon background color issues
- Report error when reading active config file failed during save
- Preload adjacent file icons on grid
New in FreeFileSync 5.22 (Oct 2, 2013)
- New options for automatic retry after error
- Improved compliance with Windows User Experience guidelines
- Harmonized popup dialog layouts
- Correctly show program menu when main dialog receives focus (OS X)
- Revised configuration dialog layouts and designs
- Fixed crash on startup for CPUs without SSE2 support (Windows XP)
- Work around wxWidgets bug for sorted list boxes (Linux)
- Updated and revised help file
- Early parameter validation for filter and sync config dialogs
- Fixed followed directory symlinks being incorrectly excluded
- Automatically calculate best initial message box size
- Progress graph and status icons support high contrast color schemes
- Include directory child-elements when manually setting filter
- Allow manual filter for short name on overview panel
- Don't treat file drops on directory input fields as URI (Linux)
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 5.21 (Sep 2, 2013)
- Detect moved/renamed files in mirror and custom variants
- New database format for two way variant: old database files are converted automatically
- Support double-clicking ffs_gui/ffs_batch files (OS X)
- Integrated search panel (Ctrl + F, F3) into main dialog
- Merged variant names into top button labels
- Hide dock icon while minimized to notification area (OS X)
- New keyboard shortcuts: F5, F6, F7, F8, F9, F10
- Further reduced size of database files by 10%
- Fixed Outlook *.ost files found missing on VSS snapshot volumes
- Added include filter context menu option
- Correctly scroll to search hits on different grid
- Always remove .ffs_tmp files permanently
- Fixed layout for buttons with text and graphics for RTL languages (Arabic, Hebrew)
- Revised file filter parser: new syntax for excluding items in subdirectories
- Improved configuration merge algorithm
- Fixed crash when showing help due to wxWigets 64-bit bug in help component (Windows 8)
- Avoid progress dialog graph flicker during resize when too few samples are available
- Progress status when deleting files not greyed out anymore
- Increased time-out to 20 seconds when checking for directory existence
- Exclude broken symlinks via filter before showing error message
- Follow symlinks when checking file/directory existence (Linux)
- Consistently set batch error codes during startup phase
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 5.20 (Aug 5, 2013)
- Fixed crash on startup due to wxWigets 64-bit bug in font enumeration (Windows 8)
New in FreeFileSync 5.19 (Aug 2, 2013)
- Redesigned progress dialog including new items graph
- New command line syntax: set directory names of a .ffs_gui/.ffs_batch externally
- Explicit button on progress dialog to minimize to systray
- Fixed progress graph labels being truncated (Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE)
- Reduced progress dialog layout twitching
- Further improved comparison speed by 10%
- Never interrupt when updating a file with fail-safe file copy after target was deleted
- Support external command lines starting with whitespace (Windows)
- Show warning before starting external applications for more than 10 items
- Start external applications synchronously if needed to avoid running out of system resources
- Don't show hidden progress dialog when showing an error message in silent batch mode (OS X)
- Correctly show file names containing ampersand characters in progress dialog
- Adapt size of results dialog to fit contents
- Correctly execute file move before parent directory will be deleted
- Show a blinking system tray icon on errors instead of a modal dialog in RealtimeSync
- Added installation size for Windows' Add/Remove Programs
New in FreeFileSync 5.18 (Jul 3, 2013)
- Work around boost 1.54 bug "Procedure Entry Point Not Found in Kernel32.dll" (Windows XP)
New in FreeFileSync 5.17 (Jul 2, 2013)
- Consider target file when updating followed file symlinks
- Support moving files to recycle bin contained in followed directory symlinks
- Move instead of copy updated files into versioning directory
- Reduced memory peak when loading large database files after comparison
- Check recycle bin existence only once per base folder and only if deletions occur (Windows)
- Revised and enhanced error messages
- Show moved files in same category as updated files
- More pessimistic calculation of required disk space reducing false positives
- Implemented platform-specific standard button ordering (Linux, OS X)
- Set configuration panel primary orientation to vertical
- Added new checks and error message strings for translation file parser
- Revised middle grid inactive color and duplicate equality symbol
- Skip XML comments while parsing config files
- Redesigned confirmation popup dialogs
- Standard button spacing conforms to operating system conventions
- Shrinked memory consumption of file hierarchy data structures
- Don't show file deletion dialog if selection is empty
- Fixed incorrect progress statistics if a file or directory is deleted externally after comparison
- Focus grid cursor row after switching sides with keyboard direction keys
- Improved localization process: find translation deltas more easily, better error reporting
- Reset initiated grid selection when changing grid cursor
- Improved sync progress dialog layout
- Don't show busy cursor on synchronization results dialog
- Log error message upon retry as type info only
New in FreeFileSync 5.16 (Jun 2, 2013)
- Integrated both category and sync action view into middle grid
- Condensed folder pair display names on overview panel
- Consider symlinks and junctions when copying locked files (Windows Vista)
- Resolved failure to set directory lock within Windows XP as Virtual Box guest
- Period resolves to working directory again
- Fixed "DecodePointer could not be located in KERNEL32.dll" (Windows 2000)
- Don't disable all child items if directory traversal fails for a single item only
- Simplified deletion confirmation dialog (removed "delete on both sides")
- Use GetUserDefaultLangID to determine installer default language
- Avoid progress speed and remaining time jitter
- Check existence only once for duplicate base directories
- Detect invalid file symlinks pointing to directories
- Disable unsuitable buttons in pop up dialogs when checkbox is set
- Copy folder attributes if source is a junction already on Windows XP instead of Vista
- Mark failed UTF conversions with replacement character
- Do not restore main dialog position outside visible screen area (multi monitor setup)
- Support detection of moved files through symlinks
- Reduced memory consumption when detecting moved files
- Check for duplicate file ids when detecting renamed files
- Redetermine volume id for followed directory symlinks
- Removed "Compare_Complete.wav"
- Don't accept file deletion confirmation in less than 50ms
- Systematically resolved translation bugs
- Added Serbian language
New in FreeFileSync 5.15 (May 2, 2013)
- New menu option to activate/deactivate automatic update checking
- Show status message while checking for program updates
- Faster startup times through asynchronous config file checking
- Automatically migrate configuration files to new format
- New context menu options to copy and paste filter settings
- Support file and folder names with trailing space or period characters
- Do not show superfluous scrollbars for multiple folder pairs
- Correctly show long file paths when moving to recycle bin failed (Windows Vista and later)
- Status feedback before blocking while creating a Volume Shadow Copy
- Allow CTRL + C to copy selection to clipboard on overview panel Consider current view filter for file selection on overview panel
- Do not show middle grid tooltip when dragging outside visible area
- Reduced file accesses when loading XML files
- Simplified structure of GlobalSettings.xml
- Allow to change default exclusion filter via GlobalSettings.xml: "DefaultExclusionFilter"
- Split filter entries over multiple rows in ffs_gui/ffs_batch XML files
- Create directory locks after one-time existence check
- Show warning when locking directory failed
- Reset main dialog layout to fix top panel default height being too small
- New help file topic "Expert Settings"
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 5.14 (Apr 1, 2013)
- Do not process child elements when parent directory creation fails
- Start comparison after pressing Enter in directory input fields
- Lead grid is determined via keyboard input instead of input focus change
- Ignore empty directory entries in RealtimeSync Restored mouse cursor "snap to default button"
- RealtimeSync exit via menu working again Restore main dialog even if "close progress dialog" is selected
- Use 32x32 instead of 48x48 as medium icon size on Windows XP Properly size non-jumbo icons in thumbnail view (Windows Vista and later)
- Reduced GDI resources for file icon buffer (Windows)
- Automatically check for updates weekly without showing popup on first start
- Restored program logo in systray progress indicatord
- Fit grid row label to match wide font sizes
- Added macros %csidl_Downloads%, %csidl_PublicDownloads%, %csidl_QuickLaunch% (Windows Vista and later)
New in FreeFileSync 5.13 (Mar 7, 2013)
- Time out for not existing directories after 10 seconds
- Check directory existence in parallel
- Inform about all missing directories via a single error message
- Show remaining time considering relative error of 10%
- Check for grid icon updates only when needed
- Revised directory lock process detection
- Implemented high resolution icons
- Accessibility: fixed unreadable labels More polished user interfaces
New in FreeFileSync 5.12 (Feb 5, 2013)
- Dynamic statistics adjustment during synchronization
- Allow to save active view filter settings as default (context menu)
- Stay responsive while checking recycle bin existence on slow disks
- Reset option "Delete on both sides" upon each manual deletion
- Added context menu to allow deletion of last used configurations
- Support numpad add/subtract keys for overview tree
- Revised external application integration
- Call external applications for multiple selected items
- Automatically schedule abandoned recycle bin temp directories (.ffs_tmp) for deletion
- Binary comparison speed estimate considers errors and short-circuit evaluation Use full time window of sync phase when calculating overall speed
- Added Arabic language
New in FreeFileSync 5.11 (Jan 7, 2013)
- New file versioning scheme: move to folder replacing existing files
- Fixed high CPU consumption after longer syncs
- Improved .ffs_batch configuration file handling
- Allow to quick save .ffs_batch files on main dialog and program exit
- Convert batch-exclusive settings when opening a .ffs_batch file on main dialog
- Redesigned configuration dialog layout
- Enhanced all file I/O error messages to show locking processes (Windows Vista and later)
- Separator in CSV file now locale dependent
- Avoid "Windows Error Code 2" for truly empty directories
- Macro %month% resolves to decimal number
- New macro %timestamp%
- Revised sync progress graph
- Fixed progress graph graphics glitch for RTL layout
- Allow XML element values to contain non-escaped quotation marks
- Updated help file
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 5.10 (Dec 3, 2012)
- Show synchronization log as a grid in results dialog
- Improved grid scrolling performance (most noticeable on Linux)
- Allow grid selection starting from outside of the grid
- RealtimeSync: Support drag & drop on main dialog for *.ffs_real and *.ffs_batch files
- Optimized memory consumption when generating log for millions of items Optimized memory consumption when exporting to CSV file Have grid row height match window default font size
- Catch out of memory when copying huge lists into clipboard
- Fixed failure to resume aborted sync after having FFS implicitly create target directory
- Fixed horizontal mouse wheel scrolling direction for RTL languages (Hebrew)
- Set maximum size of LastSyncs.log in GlobalSettings.xml element
New in FreeFileSync 5.9 (Nov 5, 2012)
- Scroll grid under mouse cursor
- Move files directly to recycle bin without parent "FFS 2012-05-15 131513" temporary folders
- New environment variables for RealtimeSync: %change_action%, "%change_path% Use Internet Explorer proxy settings for new version check (Windows)
- Show proper error message after failed symlink creation
- Start comparison upon double-clicking config list
- New batch return code: "Synchronization completed with warnings"
- Hide files that won't be copied by default if direction "none" is part of the rule set (e.g. update variant)
- Remember save config and folder picker dialog positions separately
- New sync completion sound
New in FreeFileSync 5.8 (Oct 2, 2012)
- New icon theme
- Dynamic save button and dialog title show unsaved configuration
- Exclude all folders if file size or time span filters are active
- Added macros %csidl_Nethood%, %csidl_Programs%, %csidl_Startup%
- Fixed crash on failed CRT parameter validation (Windows)
- Auto-updater handles moved web address for version check
- Fixed configuration conversion error when deleting into versioning folder
- Avoid modal error dialogs in batch mode unless error handling is set to "popup" Set return codes in batch mode even if modal dialogs are shown
- Disabled UAC virtualization for 32-bit user-mode process
- Descriptive error message when setting invalid dates on FAT volumes
New in FreeFileSync 5.7 (Sep 4, 2012)
- Modern directory selection dialog (Windows Vista and later)
- New file versioning scheme appending revision number to files New sync option to limit number of versions per file
- Revised configuration format for *.ffs_gui/*.ffs_batch files: old format will be supported for some time
- Fixed crash on invalid file modification times
- Fixed zlib error on empty database stream GlobalSettings.xml: added "MaxSize" parameter to "ConfigHistory"
- Fixed occasional crash on GTK 2 (Linux)
- Always show "items processed" in log file
- Simplified configuration dialogs
- Fixed password prompt not always coming up when connecting to a network share
- Support environment variables everywhere: +on completion; +external applications; +RTS command
- Harmonized external application macros: %item_path%, %item_folder%, %item2_path%, %item2_folder%
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 5.6 (Aug 2, 2012)
- Resize left and right grids equally Allow to move middle grid position via mouse Automatically resize file name columns
- Do not follow reparse points other than symlinks and mount points Warn if Recycle Bin is not available during manual deletion
- Fixed error when saving logfile into volume root directory
- Show files which differ in attributes only in the same category as "equal" files Apply hidden attribute to lock file
- Fixed potential "access denied" problem when updating the database file
- Show errors when saving configuration files during exit (ignore for batch mode) Mark begin of comparison phase in the log file
- More detailed tooltip describing items that differ in attributes only
- Added Scottish Gaelic translation
New in FreeFileSync 5.5 (Jul 2, 2012)
- New database format for variant: old database files are converted automatically
- Tuned performance for variant when saving database for millions of files: > 95% faster
- Support partial database updates for variant respecting current filter
- Reduced size of database files by 30%
- Fine-tuned algorithm to avoid certain conflicts after changing comparison settings
- Lower peak memory consumption when reading database participating in multiple sync jobs
- Refined symlink categorization and variant handling
- Always save log of last syncs to %appdata%\FreeFileSynce\LastSyncs.log (128 kB limit) "Save" and "Save As" menu options
- Properly show status message after save configuration
- Avoid issues applying file modification time on certain NAS Refined last-used configuration handling
- Avoid race-condition: database file is only read if directory is existing
- Protect against temporary network drop between comparison and synchronization
- Rearranged statistics panel to save vertical space when vertically aligned
- Removed limitation for number of conflicts shown in the warning message and log
- Consider both global and local filter when estimating whether folder could contain matches
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 5.4 (Jun 2, 2012)
- Copy all NTFS extended attributes
- Improved statistics panel
- Improved main grid
- Support context menu for files in overview tree
- Process double-clicks outside main grid
- Allow quoted paths ending with backslash in command line: "C:\"
- Fully localized number formatting (Windows)
- Fixed deletion dialog header being trimmed (Linux)
- Fixed exclusion via context menu (Linux)
- Preserve row label width after comparison (Linux)
- Updated help file
- New batch mode return codes, see help file
- Prefix custom deletion directory with job name
- Use the same time stamp for log file and versioning
- Handle folder drag and drop outside main grid
- Avoid name clash having multiple folder pairs delete into the same versioning folder
- Exit FreeFileSync automatically while upgrading to new version
- Accessibility: Support high contrast color schemes
- Yet another UI design overhaul
- Fixed "access denied" issue on OS X-hosted network shares
- Support Citrix folder shares
- Support Arch Linux (Chakra)
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 5.3 (May 3, 2012)
- Show which processes lock a file during synchronization (Windows Vista and later)
- Use unbuffered copy to speed up copying large files (Windows Vista and later)
- Preserve NTFS sparse files
- Support referencing all logical volumes by name (including FreeOTFE virtual drives)
- Fixed lag showing "Searching for directory" on comparison
- New context menu filter option: exclude by short name
- Use clicked-on row rather than anchor when determining action for shift-selection
- Refresh grid after pressing "CTRL + A"
- Add base folder pairs to CSV export
- Show full path in tooltip if multiple folder pairs are used
- Show child dialogs on same monitor as parent dialog on multiple monitor systems
- Added statistics at beginning of batch log file
- Fixed batch mode final speed statistic and reset graph after binary comparison
- RealtimeSync: Automatically retry after 15 seconds if an error occurrs
- New option in GlobalSettings.xml: "LockDirectoriesDuringSync"
- Added Lithuanian translation
- Added Norwegian translation
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 5.2 (Apr 2, 2012)
- Fixed runtime error "Error comparing strings! (LCMapString)" (Windows 2000, XP only)
New in FreeFileSync 5.1 (Apr 2, 2012)
- New category for time span filter: last x days
- Fixed "Error loading library function: GetVolumeInformationByHandleW" if NTFS permissions are copied Fixed command line issues: allow config name without extension, allow multiple directories instead of a config file Reenabled global shortcut F8 to toggle data shown in middle grid Unified error handling on failure to create log directory Do not close batch creation dialog after save Tree view: compress and filter root nodes the same way as regular folder nodes
- Fixed wrong tooltip being shown if directory name changes Date range selector does not trim year field anymore Show action "do nothing" on mouse-hover for conflicts in middle grid
- Fixed "Windows Error Code 59: An unexpected network error occurred" New filter pattern: *\* matches all files in subdirectories of base directories Fixed "*?" filter sub-sequence
- Fixed "Cannot convert from the charset 'Unknown encoding (-1)'!" Support Ctrl + A in filter dialog Support large filter lists > 32 kByte Allow to hide file icons Avoid switching monitor when main dialog is maximized on multiple monitor systems Improved huge XML files loading times by a factor of 3000, saving by a factor of 3 Restore grid scroll position after repeated comparisons Show log after sync when non-fatal errors occurred
- Fixed crash in UTF8 conversion when processing a corrupted ffs_db file Even more pedantic user interface fine-tuning Compiles and runs on openSuse
- Support single shift-click to check/set direction of multiple rows
- Installer remembers all settings for next installation (local installation only) All executables digitally signed Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 5.0 (Jan 31, 2012)
- New grid control
- New tree control
- Revised Right to Left layout for Hebrew
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 4.6 (Dec 27, 2011)
- Execute user-defined command after synchronization
- Option to automatically close synchronization progress dialog
- Automatically adjust statistics during sync if changes happened after comparison
- Fixed "DecodePointer could not be located in KERNEL32.dll" (Windows 2000) Fixed "Windows Error Code 31: A device attached to the system is not functioning"
- Mouse wheel will scroll list of folder pairs instead of toggle through directory history
- No error message when scanning a single directory
- Minimized disk accesses when deleting files
- Less mouse-clicks required when overwriting configuration Pause timers while showing error messages
- Show error message for malformed external commands
- Support detection of moved files over "subst" alias
- New default font: Segoe UI (Windows Vista and later)
- Save settings before forced exit due to shutdown or logoff
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 4.5 (Nov 25, 2011)
- Fixed "Windows Error Code 50: The request is not supported"
- Fixed "Windows Error Code 124: The system call level is not correct"
- Fixed config load performance problem if network drive is not reachable
- Support traversing truly empty directories (no ., ..)
New in FreeFileSync 4.4 (Nov 22, 2011)
- Fixed error copying files containing alternate data streams (Windows)
New in FreeFileSync 4.3 (Nov 21, 2011)
- Detection of moved and renamed files
- New database format for mode: a full sync is suggested before upgrading
- Fixed overwrite symlink with regular file
- Fixed synchronization result dialog GUI glitch (Windows XP)
- Fixed macro %weekday%
- RealtimeSync: Fixed support for manual volume unmount (Windows)
- Added Croatian language
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 4.2 (Nov 3, 2011)
- Implemented workaround for compiler bug leading to uncaught exceptions (Windows 32 bit)
- Shadow Copy Service: Native support for Windows7/Server 2008
- Fixed reference by volume name parsing issue
- Rearranged synchronization progress dialog
- More concise log message format
- Fixed default file icon (Kubuntu)
- Support for wxWidgets 2.9 series (Ubuntu/Kubuntu) FAT 2 sec tolerance for files dated in the future Honor DACL/SACL inheritance flags when copying NTFS permissions (Windows) New option in GlobalSettings.xml: "RunWithBackgroundPriority" (Windows Vista and later)
New in FreeFileSync 4.1 (Oct 9, 2011)
- Improved synchronization progress dialog
- Show all available aliases in directory history list
- Show password prompt when connecting to mapped network share
- Removed busy cursor after program startup
- RealtimeSync: atomically detect missing directories
- Handle not existing reference by volume name as an invalid path
- Improved startup responsiveness by checking dir/file existence asynchronously
- Fixed incorrect directory name loading when using multiple folder pairs
- Allow passing multiple configurations via command line
- Allow passing multiple directory names via command line
New in FreeFileSync 4.0 (Sep 27, 2011)
- Thumbnail list view
- Option to specify comparison settings at folder pair level
- Correctly update parent-child relationship when changing sync directions
- Show history list for additional folder pairs Switch between volume name and full path in directory history list Perf: shrinked folder matching CPU time by over 70% Show windows environment strings in directory history list Show windows special folder IDs in directory history list
- Fixed progress dialog going into background on heavy load
- Support creating old 8.3 directories
- Take over configuration name when creating new batch job
- Remember batch-specific settings when loading a ffs_batch file from main dialog Drag & drop ffs_batch files on main dialog to test and edit batch settings Automatically resolve objects deleted externally after comparison
- Date column context menu: manual time range selector
- New categories for time span filter: today, this week, this month, this year Respect both sides when sorting by relative path Updated COM error message reporting resolving "Unknown error" Smarter configuration merge algorithm Correctly show existing folders on both sides when using include filter
- Fixed network access using WebDrive
- Update modification times during file copy to write current values to database RealtimeSync: write name of changed file into environment variable "changed_file" RealtimeSync: fixed network drop incorrectly being handled as a failure
- Set default direction according to current configuration when deleting manually Plenty of GUI improvements
- Updated help file
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 3.21 (Aug 17, 2011)
- Fixed deleting to user-defined directory
- Fixed crash when using include filter
- New global option to disable transactional file copy
New in FreeFileSync 3.20 (Aug 12, 2011)
- Scan multiple directories in parallel
- Automatically resolve disconnected network maps
- Fixed temporal hang when dropping large files on main dialog
- Automatic mode: Fixed issue regarding directory names differing in case during first sync
- Keep FreeFileSync responsive when trying to access non-existent network folder
New in FreeFileSync 3.19 (Jul 24, 2011)
- Exclude directories from synchronization which cannot be accessed during comparison
- Warning if Recycle Bin is not available instead of deleting silently
- Adapted log message if missing recycler leads to permanent deletion (Windows)
- Revert to per file recycle bin handling if creating temp recycler folder fails
- Avoid orphaned deletion temp directories on network drives
- Quick-select comparison and synchronization options via double-click
- New right-click dropdown menu on comparison and synchronization settings button
- New database design: copying the database file does not lead to complications anymore
- Full support for "retry" while comparing
- Don't copy empty folders when filtering by timespan
- Allow loading/merging multiple configurations files via file open dialog
- Allow loading/merging multiple configurations in last used config list
- Fixed system shutdown interruption during batch mode
- Allow saving log files in both silent and non-silent batch jobs
- Reduced main dialog flicker when switching configurations
- Database and lock files created by FreeFileSync do not trigger RealtimeSync anymore
- Restrict maximum number of visible folder pairs to 6 (configurable via GlobalSettings.xml)
- New macros: �y%, %hour%, %min%, %sec%
New in FreeFileSync 3.18 (Jul 4, 2011)
- Launcher running synchronously and returning application error code
- Fixed sort by file extension
- Fixed drag and drop of SAMBA network folder
- Render (all) invalid file dates correctly on GUI
- Correct layout selection for RTL and LTR languages
- Correct GUI status texts while waiting for directory lock
- Properly set default directory when loading configuration
- New XML framework: zenXML
- Addded Hebrew language
- Addded Danish language
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 3.17 (May 21, 2011)
- Filter files by size
- Filter latest files by time span
- Launcher automatically selecting 32/64 bit executable on startup
- More detailed systray progress indicator
- New database format for mode: a full sync is suggested before upgrading
- Update database at individual file level (support for partial and aborted syncs)
- New translation file format
- Dynamically load existing translation files
- Correct translation plural forms
- Improved directory locking strategy
- Restructured installation package
- One button-click synchronization
- Fixed CSV character encoding
- Put CSV values in quotes if they contain semicolons
- Explicit button and settings for "Custom" sync variant -> old configurations need to be migrated
- Keyboard shortcuts also on middle grid
- Minimize progress dialog by clicking on taskbar
- Render invalid file dates correctly on GUI
- Process user-defined commands via shell execution (FFS and RTS)
- Allow base directory names having trailing whitespace
- Addded Ukrainian language
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 3.16 (Apr 21, 2011)
- Fixed file copy issues on SAMBA shares
- Small GUI fixes
New in FreeFileSync 3.15 (Apr 20, 2011)
- Overwriting a file as fully transactional operation
- Optimized synchronization speed (non-cached volumes, e.g. memory sticks in particular)
- Volumes can be specified by name: []\ (usecase: variable drive letters, RealtimeSync)
- Copy NTFS compressed, encrypted and sparse file attributes
- Copy NTFS compressed and encrypted directory attributes
- Copy NTFS alternate data stream
- Improved performance: CSV export, copy to clipboard, sync log display
- Improved color theme support
- Fixed crash on certain system text colors settings
- Fixed progress numbers for manual deletion
- Allow aborting manual deletion via escape key
- Use relative name for file tooltip
- Automatically redirect arrow keys to main grid
- More tolerant directory creation (operation not supported/wrong parameter)
- More tolerant file move: ignore existing files (user-defined deletion directory)
- Added macro %weekday%
New in FreeFileSync 3.14 (Mar 21, 2011)
- New keyboard shortcuts: F5: compare F6: synchronize
- Skip to next folder pair if fatal error occured (instead of abort)
- Reload last selected configuration on startup
- Abort with error when copying to empty directory field
- Full log information after comparison (including file transfer)
- Check read access for source file before overwriting target
- Fixed possible application crash after comparison
- Fixed possible network freeze when comparing
- Maximum number of logfiles can be specified
- Don't condense whitespace when loading XML configuration
- RealtimeSync: Put executable name in quotes when parsing *.ffs_batch file
- Large program icons - 256 x 256
- Handle daylight saving time(DST) on FAT network shares
- Skip DST handling if drive does not support accurate file times
- Many small GUI/usability fixes
- Added Korean translation
New in FreeFileSync 3.13 (Jan 17, 2011)
- Implemented Advanced User Interface to allow user specified layout customizations
- Process case sensitive file/directory/symlink names
- Synchronize name/attributes only avoiding full copy if appropriate
- Prevent hibernation/sleep mode during comparison and synchronization
- New database format: single file for FreeFileSync 32 and 64 bit versions
- full sync suggested before migrating to v3.13
- old sync.x64.ffs_db files may be deleted
- Improved algorithm to calculate remaining time
- Allow resizing window containing multiple folder pairs
- Show folder short names in column file name
- Correctly report message "nothing to sync" in batch mode
- Fixed loading correct maximized position on multi-screen desktop
- RealtimeSync: Removed blank icons in ALT-TAB list during execution of commandline
- Show RealtimeSync job name as systray tooltip
- Last used configurations as sorted list without size limitation
- Remove redundant configuration when merging multiple ffs_gui/ffs_batch files
- Warning if folder is modified that is part of multiple folder pairs
- Aggregated warning messages for all folder pairs instead of one per pair
- Added privilege to access restricted symlink content
- Added Greek translation
New in FreeFileSync 3.12 (Nov 29, 2010)
- Allow empty folder pairs without complaining
- Automatically exclude database and lock files from all (sub-)directories (not only from base)
- Resize grid columns on both sides in parallel
- Search via CTRL + F and F3 now as global hotkeys
- Fully portable use of directory locking (Windows 32/64 bit)
- RealtimeSync: Treat missing network path the same as missing local path
- Show current job name during synchronization (batch/gui)
- Allow copying dereferenced (=followed) directory Symlinks over network share
- Fail to copy Symlinks (=direct) over network share instead of silently creating empty folder (Windows XP)
- Copy NTFS junctions as Symlinks (avoiding permission checks)
- RealtimeSync: ignore request for device removal on network mapped drives
- Fixed moving buttons in synchronization dialog
- Allow deleting currently selected item from list of last used folders (not before wxWidgets 2.9.1)
- Avoid losing focus after manually deleting a file
- Preserve custom changes to sync directions after manually deleting a file
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 3.11 (Sep 21, 2010)
- Fixed migration issue: reasonable default value for number of folder pairs
- Better message box background color
New in FreeFileSync 3.10 (Sep 20, 2010)
- Automatically solve daylight saving time and time zone shift issues on FAT/FAT32 (finally)
- Instantly resolve abandoned directory locks associated with local computer
- Show expanded directory name as tooltip and label text (resolves macros and relative paths)
- Do not copy relative file attributes for base target directories that are created implicitly
- Move dialogs by clicking (almost) anywhere
- RealtimeSync: ignore request for device removal on Samba shares
- Added UTF-8 BOM for CSV export
- Correctly handle window position on multi-screen desktop
- Disabled warning "database not yet existing"
- RealtimeSync: replaced delay by minimum idle time
- Maximum number of folder pairs configurable via GlobalSettings.xml (XML node )
- Added tooltips to display long filenames on main grid
- Keep application responsive when deleting large directories
- Vista/Windows 7: harmonize modification times shown on main grid with Windows Explorer
- Changed background color to avoid unreadable texts in combination with certain color themes
- Toggle middle grid comparison result/sync preview with right mouse button click
- Further GUI enhancements/polishment/standard conformance
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 3.9 (Aug 11, 2010)
- Advanced locking strategy to allow multiple processes synchronize the same directories (e.g. via network share)
- Merge multiple *.ffs_batch, *.ffs_gui files or combinations of both via drag & drop
- Copy file and folder permissions (requires admin rights):
- Windows: owner, group, DACL, SACL
- correctly handle Symbolic Links
- new option in global settings
- Compare by content evaluates Symbolic Links
- 32-Bit build compiled with MinGW/GCC to preserve Windows 2000 compatibility
- RealtimeSync: Handle requests for device removal (USB stick) while monitoring
- Sort by filesize: group symlinks before directories
- Added macros %week%, %month%, %year% for creating time-stamped directories
- Touch database file when changes occured only
- Moved settings "file time tolerance" and "verify copied files" to GlobalSettings.xml
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 3.8 (Jun 21, 2010)
- New options handling Symlinks: ignore/direct/follow => warning: new database format for mode
- Fixed crash when starting sync for Windows XP SP2
- Prevent tooltip from stealing focus
- Show associated file icons (Linux)
- Run folder existence checks in separate thread (faster network share access)
- Write mode database file even if both sides are already in sync
- Don't raise status dialog to the top after synchronisation
- Embedded version information into executable (Windows)
- Migrated Compiler to Visual C++ 2010 (Windows)
- Avoid losing manual changes when excluding via context menu
- Adjusted auto-updater web-address
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 3.7 (May 16, 2010)
- RealtimeSync: Trigger commandline only if all directories are existing
- Allow for drag and drop of very large files
- Batch modus: New "Switch" button opens GUI modus when warnings occur
- Support copying old 8.3 filenames correctly
- Handling of Symbolic Links configurable via GUI
- Fine tuned calculation of remaining disk space for custom deletion directories
- Save default config files only if actually changed
- NSIS installer: Support for /D and /S switches
- Fixed resource loading if installation folder is not working directory (Linux build)
- Consolidated batch creation dialog
- mode: Detect conflict when a directory shall be deleted while new sub-elements are to be copied
- Automatically mark left behind temporary files (*.ffs_tmp) for deletion with next sync
- New Project website: http://freefilesync.sourceforge.net
- A lot of small GUI fixes
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 3.6 (Mar 31, 2010)
- Fixed occasional crash when starting FreeFileSync
New in FreeFileSync 3.5 (Mar 27, 2010)
- Allow mode syncs between 32 bit, 64 bit, Windows and Linux builds
- Show progess indicator in window title
- Support for progess indicator in Windows 7 Superbar
- Reduced progress indicator flicker
- Prevent silent batch mode from taking keyboard focus
- Improved error messages (loading/saving/copying files)
- Improved environment variable tolerance: strip blanks and double-quotes
- RealtimeSync: Fixed crash when double-clicking systray icon
- Allow aborting all operations via Escape key
- Added British English translation
New in FreeFileSync 3.4 (Mar 4, 2010)
- Performance: Reduced Recycle Bin access time by 90%
- Recycle Bin support for Linux
- Performance: Reduced binary comparison sequential read time (by up to 75% for CD/DVD access)
- Improved synchronization sequence to avoid disk space shortage: overwrite large files by small ones first
- Fixed problems with file renaming on Samba share
- New free text grid search via shortcuts CTRL + F and F3
- Show number of processed files at end of synchronization
- New optional grid column: file extension
- New comparison category icons
- Fixed handling sync-config of first folder pair
- Allow moving main dialog by dragging client area instead of title bar only
- Enhanced helpfile: Run RealtimeSync as Service
- Prefix logfiles with name of batchjob
- Fixed GUI right-to-left mirroring for locales Hebrew and Arabic
- Portable version: save configuration in installation folder
- Many small GUI enhancements
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 3.3 (Feb 2, 2010)
- New installer package for portable/local/32/64-bit versions
- Built-in support for very long filenames: apply \\?\-prefix automatically
- New button for synchonization preview: show equal files
- RealtimeSync: Respond to directory or volume arrival, e.g. USB stick insert
- Start comparison automatically when double-clicking on *.ffs_gui files
- Visual progress indicator for sys-tray icon
- Fixed string comparison for 'ß' and 'ss' (all Windows versions)
- Fixed general string comparison for Windows 2000
- Significantly faster file icon loading
- Applied new IFileOperation interface for recycle bin (Windows >= Vista)
- Patched mode to handle FAT32 2-second file time precision
- Play optional sound after comparison: "Compare_Complete.wav"
- Allow environment variables for logfile-directory
- Enhanced conflict reporting
- Added Swedish translation
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 3.2 (Dec 14, 2009)
- Native Windows 64-Bit version (including Volume Shadow Copy Service)
- Harmonized filter handling: global and local file filters
- Unified handling of first folder pair: all pairs now semantically equal
- Use environment variables within directory names (e.g. %USERNAME%)
- New keyboard shortcuts to set sync-direction: ALT +
- Allow copying to non-encrypted target directory
- Fixed sort by filename
- Fixed GDI resource leak when scrolling large grids
- Fixed string comparison for 'ß' and 'ss' (Windows >= Vista)
- Faster file icon loading
- Remove elements in folder dropdown list via DEL key
- New integrated help file
- Play optional sound after synchronization: "Sync_Complete.wav"
- Several GUI/usability improvements
- Created package for PortableApps.com
- Added Finnish translation
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 3.1 (Oct 26, 2009)
- Support for multiple datasources in Automatic mode
- Copy file and folder create/access/modification times when synchronizing
- Progress dialog can be minimized to systray (Batch and GUI mode)
- Allow switching between silent/non-silent batch mode interactively
- Some GUI improvements
New in FreeFileSync 3.0 (Oct 16, 2009)
- New synchronization mode:
- Consolidated batch mode error handling
- Fixed crash when comparing multiple pairs by content
- Fixed calculation of remaining objects
- Fixed swapping grids
- Show scanned files when traversing with filter enabled
- New default filter values
- New macros %time%, �te% for creating time-stamped directories
- Avoid corrupted data when program is terminated unexpectedly
- Prevent deletion when source-directory (temporarily) is not accessible
- Native Unicode support for Linux build
- Added Romanian translation
- Added Turkish translation
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 2.3 (Sep 28, 2009)
- New filter and sync configuration at folder pair level
- Improved sorting: sort across multiple folder pairs
- stable sorting in middle grid
- consolidated sorting of sync-direction
- Open external applications via context menu(customizable)
- Removed performance penalty when using include filters
- Improved filter syntax for strings beginning with wildcards
- Default handling for conflict files now configurable
- New option to show all hidden dialogs again
- Fixed issue with makros %nameCo, %dirCo
- New option in *.ffs_gui/ffs_batch files: Verify copied files
- Use Windows Volume Shadow Copy for shared and locked files(new)
- More detailed information in *.cvs export
- Use current working directory to save global configuration (portable version)
- Respect subdirectories when manually changing sync-direction
- Allow import of batch configuration into GUI mode
- Some small GUI improvements
- New shortcuts: SPACE: (de-)select rows; ENTER: start external application
- Performance improvements: Reduced CPU time by 28%, (peak) memory consumption by 20%
- Added Traditional Chinese translation
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 2.2 (Aug 17, 2009)
- New user-defined recycle bin directory
- Possibility to create synchronization directories automatically (if not existing)
- Support for relative directory names (e.g. foo, ..ar) respecting current working directory
- New tooltip in middle grid showing detailed information (including conflicts)
- Status feedback and new abort button for manual deletion
- Options to add/remove folder pairs in batch dialog
- Added tooltip showing progress for silent batchmode
- New view filter buttons in synchronization preview
- Revisioned handling of symbolic links (Linux/Windows)
- GUI optimizations removing flicker
- Possibility to create new folders via browse folder dialog
- Open files with associated application by special command string
- Improved warning/error handling
- Auto-adjust columns automatically or manually with CTRL + '+'
- New makros for double-click commandline: %name, %dir, %nameCo, %dirCo
- Fixed runtime error when multiple folder pairs are used
- New tool 'RealtimeSync': Watch directories for changes and start synchronization automatically
- Improved XML parsing, fault tolerance and concept revisioned
- More detailed statistics before start of synchronization
- Removed superfluous border for bitmap buttons (Linux only)
- Added Czech translation
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 2.1 (Jul 3, 2009)
- Fixed bug that could cause FreeFileSync to crash after synchronization
New in FreeFileSync 2.0 (Jul 1, 2009)
- Copy locked files using Windows Volume Shadow Copy
- Load file icons asynchronously for maximum display performance
- Handle include filter correctly when comparing
- Display optional summary window before starting synchronization
- Adjust sync direction properly when switching sides
- Info about sync variant on main dialog
- Issue a warning message for each conflict type when comparing
- Save default configuration in user application path (Installer based version)
- Limit main dialog minimum size
- Update grid row labels while scrolling
- Right-click selects cell before opening context menu
- New context menu options to manually assign a sync-direction
- Moved sync-preview switch into middle grid's context menu
- Possibility to remove top folder pair
- Fixed calculation of row total in sync preview
- File icons configurable for each side
- Many small GUI improvements
- Compiled successfully with GCC 4.4.0 and MS Visual C++ 2008
- Added Russian translation
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 1.19 (Jun 1, 2009)
- New synchronization preview
- Sync-direction can be adapted manually
- New category type "conflict"
- New check for unresolved conflicts
- Improved overall GUI layout
- New check for erroneous file modification dates
- Optional popup to notify on changed configuration
- Files with invalid dates (e.g. year 30.000) do not result in a program abort anymore
- Replaced column "full name" by "full path" to be combined with "filename"
- Apply filtering WHILE comparing (if activated) and avoid traversing excluded directories
- New filter paradigm: use relative instead of absolute names
- New option "ignore DST +/- 1-hour" to correctly handle daylight saving changes
- Sync preview statistics now on main dialog
- Show only relevant synchronization options
- File icon display configurable via grid column context menu
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 1.18 (May 10, 2009)
- Linux build officially released: all major problems solved!
- New statistic: remaining time
- New statistic: bytes per second
- Automatically check for program updates every week
- Finally got rid of scrollbar in middle grid for Linux build
- Fixed issue with file icon display
- Fixed overlapping grid cells
- Alternate logfile directory configurable via GUI
- Added drag & drop support for batch job assembly
- Simplyfied filter usage: - matches "*" as well as ""
- only distinct filter entries are considered
- Platform dependent linebreaks in configuration *.xml files
- "Significant difference check" runs at folder pair level
- Sorting runs at folder pair level
- New check for sufficient free disk space (considering recycle bin usage)
- New optional grid column: directory
- New sort by directory name
- Reduced memory consumption by 10%
- A lot of smaller improvements
- Added Brazilian Portuguese translation
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 1.17 (Apr 14, 2009)
- Full support for Windows symbolic links:
- traverse, copy, delete symbolic links
- handle broken symbolic links
- new options in GlobalSettings.xml: TraverseDirectorySymlinks, CopyFileSymlinks
- New menu option: "Check for new version"
- Copy folder attributes and security settings when implicitly creating folders
- Maximum file time difference now fully configurable
- New history of last selected folders
- Fixed "Year-2038-Problem" for time_t
- Upgraded to wxWidgets 2.8.10
- Individual folder pairs can be selected for removal
- Performance: Reduced CPU time by 9%, memory consumption by 36%
- Support for cancellation when copying and comparing large files
- Smooth progress indicators when copying and comparing large files
- Support for Shift-PageUp/PageDown
- Support for Home/End and Shift-Home/End
- Alternative logfile directory configurable via *.ffs_batch Xml
- Show explorer file icons in grid
- Fixed graphical misalignment with multiple folder pairs
- Added Slovenian translation
- Added Hungarian translation
- Added Spanish translation
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 1.16 (Mar 13, 2009)
- Support for \? path prefix for unrestricted path length (directory names > 255 characters) (windows only)
- Copy files even if target folder does not exist
- Fixed occasional error when switching languages
- Added sys-tray icon for silent batch mode (pause, abort, about)
- Support for numeric del-key
- Avoid endless loops with Vista symbolic links (don't traverse into symbolic links - configurable)
- New functionality for loading batch files (load button or drag & drop to main/batch window)
- New options for batch file error handling: "popup, ignore errors, exit with returncode < 0"
- New option to reset all warning messages
- Allow marking both sides of the main grid via CTRL + mouse-click
- Allow manual deletion of files on both or one side only (respecting selections on both sides)
- Special recylcer option for manual deletion
- New optional grid column: Full name
- Fixed locale related issue when comparing. Big thanks to Persson Henric for providing support!
- New check if more than 50% of files will be overwritten/deleted
- Save memory by clearing old results before re-comparing
- Usability improvements:
- - name of config file in window title
- - refresh view filters on configuration load
- - default to ascending sort when changing column
- - maximum length of config file history customizable through xml
- - new "load configuration" button
- - check/uncheck option for middle grid
- - support for CTRL + A (select all)
- - enhanced error messages (windows only)
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 1.15 (Feb 23, 2009)
- Fixed performance bottleneck in batch mode (non-silent)
- Improved performance of comparison by another 10%
- Configure column settings by right-click context menu
- Remember column positions on main grid
- Hide/Show individual columns
- Added "sort by comparison result"
- Sort file list by relative name after comparison (GUI mode only)
- Removed Windows registry usage for portable version
- Restored linebreaks in status texts for better readability
- Revised German translation. Thanks to «Latino»!
- Created custom button control to finally translate "compare" and "synchronize"
- Allow manual setup of file manager integration (Windows and Linux)
- Added Step-By-Step guide for manual compilation (Windows and Linux)
- Added checkboxes to manually select/deselect rows
- New option: Treat files with time deviation of less-equal 1 hour as equal (FAT/FAT32 drives only)
- Added Polish translation
- Added Portuguese translation
- Added Italian translation
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 1.14 (Feb 2, 2009)
- Folder attributes are copied during synchronization
- Sorting now case-insensitive (Windows-only)
- Allow column positioning on main grid
- Many small fixes
- Added Chinese translation
- Updated translation files
- Massive performance improvements:
- comprehensive analysis and optimization of comparison functionality
- new, fast directory traversing algorithm
- improved folder hierarchy compare algorithm
- lazy evaluation of formatted date strings
- new high-performance string class
- reduction of CPU time by more than 90%!
New in FreeFileSync 1.13 (Feb 2, 2009)
- Automatically detect daylight saving time (DST) change for FAT/FAT32 drives
- Added directory dependency check when synchronizing multiple folder pairs
- New synchronization option: "update"
- Reduced status screen flicker when comparing and synchronizing
- Fixed bug when sorting by filename
- Further GUI improvements
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 1.12 (Feb 2, 2009)
- Significantly improved speed of all sorting algorithms
- Keep sorting sequence when adding or removing rows
- 'Sort by relative path' secondarily sorts by filename and respects folders
- Allow adding multiple files/folders to exclude filter via context menu
- Exclude full relative path instead of short filenames via context menu
- Fixed possible memory leak when cancelling compare
- New option to manually adjust file modification times (To be used e.g. for FAT32 volumes on DST switch)
- Handling of different types of configuration (GUI, batch, global)
- Enhanced exception handling
- Multiple GUI improvements
- Added Dutch translation
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 1.11 (Feb 2, 2009)
- Support for multiple folder pairs
- Optimized performance of multiple pairs to scan each folder just once
- Enhanced batch file format
- New context menu option to add files, file types or directories to exclude filter
- Reworked file filter dialog
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 1.10 (Feb 2, 2009)
- Transformed configuration file format to XML
- Exchanged batch files with shell links for full Unicode support (Windows-only)
- Improved filter usage: ignore leading/trailing whitespace, upper/lower-case (Windows-only) chars
- Removed screen-flicker when clicking on compare:
- Added elapsed time to compare status
- Calculate height of middle grid independently of OS window layout
- Multiple GUI improvements
- Added Japanese translation
- Updated translation files
New in FreeFileSync 1.9 (Oct 26, 2008)
- Fixed wxWidgets multithreading issue that could cause synchronization to hang occasionally
- Fixed issue with %1 parameter
- Fixed issue with recycle bin usage in unicode mode
- Added uninstaller
- New installer option to associate *.ffs files with FreeFileSync
- Transformed language files to Unicode (UTF-8)
- Delete elements in configuration history list via DELETE key
New in FreeFileSync 1.8 (Oct 26, 2008)
- Enhanced statusbar information
- Enhanced logfile information
- Enhanced progress information
- Added Unicode support
- Program now waits until work is completed when abort is triggered during synchronization
- Added French translation
- Updated German translation
New in FreeFileSync 1.7 (Oct 17, 2008)
- Display only those view filter buttons that are actually needed
- Compare by size and date: last write time may differ by up to 2 seconds (NTFS vs FAT32)
- Fixed minor issue with trailing path separator when creating batch jobs
- Fixed minor issue with window sizes not being remembered in some special situation
- Further improved Unicode compliance
- Updated German translation
New in FreeFileSync 1.6 (Oct 17, 2008)
- Significantly improved speed of filtering files and view (< 10 ms for > 200.000 rows(!))
- Fixed minor grid mis-alignment under some special conditions
- Enhanced status bar with centered texts
- Flexible filter options depending on compare variant
- Improved synchronization statistics
- Fixed issue when trying to delete system folders
- Usability improvements
- Recycle Bin usage as commandline parameter
- New menu bar
- Program language selectable from menu
- UI-option to create sync jobs (batch files) for automated synchronization
- Updated German translation
New in FreeFileSync 1.5 (Oct 17, 2008)
- Improved speed of comparison by file content
- Simplified and optimized calculation of accumulated filesizes
- Added right-click context menu to main dialog
- New installer for Windows
- Improved usability of filtering and selecting rows
- Solved possible issue with different file time precisions in multi-OS environments
- Updated German translation
New in FreeFileSync 1.4 (Oct 17, 2008)
- Implemented generic multithreading class to keep "compare by content" and "file synchronisation" responsive
- Added status bar when comparing files (with additional status information for "compare by content")
- Some further speed optimizations
- Added option to skip error messages and have them listed after synchronization
- Restructured loading of configuration files
- The result grid after synchronization now always consists of items that have not been synchronized (even if abort was pressed)
- Added "remaining files" as sync-progress information
- Updated German translation
New in FreeFileSync 1.3 (Oct 17, 2008)
- Maintain and load different configurations by drag&drop, load-button or commandline
- New function to delete files (or move them to recycle bin) manually on the UI (without having to re-compare):Deleting folders results in deletion of all dependent files, subfolders on UI grid (also no re-compare needed) / while catching arrow situations and allowing to resolve them
- Improved manual filtering of rows: If folders are marked all dependent subfolders and files are marked as well
- (keeping sort sequence when "hide filtered elements" is marked)
- Comprehensive performance optimization of the two features above (manual filtering, deletion) for large grids (> 200.000 rows)
- Improved usability: resizable borders, keyboard shortcuts, default buttons, dialog standard focus
- Main window will remember restored position even if maximized
- Updated sources to become more Linux and Unicode friendly
- Updated German translation
New in FreeFileSync 1.2 (Oct 17, 2008)
- New progress indicator and status information when synchronizing: available for commandline mode and UI mode: Status update and final error report
- New progress information when comparing directories
- Multithreading for copying of files to keep program responsive
- Optimized all status dialogs and progress indicators for high performance: practically NO performance loss
- Possibility to abort all performance critical operations (comparison, synchronization) at any time
- New options in case of an error: "Continue, retry, abort" for UI and commandline
- New commandline option "-skiperrors" to continue synchronization despite errors
- Enhanced logfile (-silent mode) to include all errors during compare and synchronization
- Do not synchronize folders that have been deleted externally (but show an error message)
- Manually filter out ranges from synchronization instead of just single rows
- Some UI improvements
- New option to use Recycle Bin when deleting or overwriting files
- New synchronization sequence: first delete files, then copy files to avoid disc space shortages
- Added different return values when used in commandline mode to report success or failure
- Updated German translation
New in FreeFileSync 1.1 (Oct 17, 2008)
- Some further speed optimizations (sorting)
- Written custom wxGrid class to avoid mapping of data to UI: huge performance increase (especially with formatted grids > 100000 items)
- Filter files to include/exclude them from synchronization
- Minor UI and text adaptions
- Allow direct keyboard input for directory names
- Updated German translation
- Added possibility to continue on error
- Added indicator for sort direction
- Simplified code concerning loading of UI resources
- Prepared code to support unicode in some future version