Comments on: FreeFileSync: powerful folder comparison and synchronization tool

By: Wolfman

Wolfman — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:31:15 +0000

Free File Sync seems OK but the user interface is far from easy. It looks as if it is designed by some technical guy for other technical guys. Why people do not pay some attention to design a usr friendly interface???

By: narendra

narendra — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:09:12 +0000

its good tool to be used

By: Peter Steier

Peter Steier — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:35:19 +0000

The handling of daylight saving time does not work at all for me (I try to mix NTFS, FAT32, and Samba). They should implement the ***ONLY*** working way of handling this: just treat files exactly 1 or two hours apart as unchanged. Everything more fancy is doomed to fail, since the involved file systems are badly designed from the beginning, and a sync software will not be able to make up for that.

By: Renato

Renato — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:15:57 +0000

This is a great program. I’ve been testing a lot of sync softwares, and was using SyncToy for quite a while now, but I am definitely going to switch to free-file-sync…

I couldn’t find a way to setup multiple synchronization pairs to run with one click in SyncToy, and free-file-sync makes it so easy to accomplish. It offers a very handy way of saving and retrieving the configurations.

It has everything I needed and is relatively easy to setup.

The portable version may be accessed by choosing this option at the installer.

By: David

David — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:18:55 +0000

Create Synchronicity is my sync tool of choice. Far more reliable than Sync Toy and most others mentioned here: http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/

By: greg

greg — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:08:13 +0000

What are your experiences with DirSync Pro? Can anybody mention a link to a review of DirSync Pro?

By: greg

greg — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:06:50 +0000

What are your experiences with DirSync Pro guys? Can anybody mention a link to a review of DirSync Pro?

By: Ibrahim

Ibrahim — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:28:03 +0000

I have been using DirSync Pro (www.dirsyncpro.org) for a while now and I thought I give program above a shot. I tried it and I'm going back to DirSync Pro. It could be a matter of personal preference but I think DirSync Pro has a better interface and does the synchronization more logically to my upinion.

By: luke

luke — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:10:08 +0000

To Sync:
I have sent the email to the author for the question 1 and, he replied me that for the reason of Windows had different versions, he preferred to build up a packet to user that it would automatically detect users’ computer environment and provided a recommend option ( users also can change it ) to install, thus, he stopped the portable release from version 3.3.

It seems that the author is not willing to release portable version at all. But I thing if we show our enthusiastic on it, perhaps he will consider to release different portable version to satisfy his users’ need.

By: luke

luke — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:55:06 +0000

This is a really magnificent sync-like software. Nearly two years ago, I stopped using the AllwaySync whose version 3.1 was the last free version, and started to find an alternative software. Fortunately, I found the FreeFileSync v1.0. It was simple but sufficent to meet all my needs, which including the base function what I needed – mirror – that would be save lots and lots of time to backup a over 20GB folder to another folder in a different disk. This software can pick those discrepant files and synchronize them. Without this function, I have to spend at least 30 minites or more to copy a 20GB folder to another place. Now, except the first copy, subsequent backuping operation time have been rapidly reduced to under 10 minites because of in the most time, the total size of the changed files are more or less 4GB.

By: Rid

Rid — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:46:18 +0000

Great review on the software. I will download it now.

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By: Aerialsky

Aerialsky — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:58:45 +0000

I cannot find history of every job I do in this software…

PureSync is better…. It has a lots of configuration. You must try it. http://www.jumpingbytes.com/en/puresync.html

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By: Sync

Sync — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:27:03 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for pointing to this utility.
Few questions though:
1) where is the link to the portable version – that is not very clear;
2) MS “Toy” isn’t bad but it is not portable therefore it would be interesting trying it at the same time Joe’s explanation about deleted files kinda renders this Tool useless, or I am missing somthing?
Thank you in advance

By: strungoutonfreeware

strungoutonfreeware — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:48:17 +0000

Joe
Thanx for the heads up I will give it another spin !

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:00:46 +0000

Thanks very much for this review, Samer. I haven't tried FreeFileSync yet, but it looks great. According to the features you have described, it seems to avoid the drawbacks of most other sync utilities. I have tried out many such utilities, including most of those mentioned in earlier comments here. You can read about my syncing travails and my brief reviews and comparisons in posts #27, #28, and #58 of my utilities blog, before finally settling on Web-hosted syncing with Dropbox (see post #76). If I ever get time to revive my now-dormant blog, FreeFileSync will be one of the first utilities I'll test. I hope this is helpful.