

(also commercial ones) and none of them fits our needs so closely like FFS.Īt Home I use AllwaySync to update my NAS with my workstation and honestly nowĪfter working with FFS here in the office I consider if I should replaceĪll the for taking the time to reply :-) We had a long evaluation period where we test a lot of programs out there What I can tell you is that in this time nothing unusual happens or in other Users because we just use FFS since one week. I can't tell you how good and save FFS is like Zenju or other experienced Of Videos, Music, Photos and other personal stuff on my NAS and I guess I'll

Imagine what shock it was to see all files corrupted. Second, I'm truly sorry for you and your bad experience with FFS. This is not a chat, I'm happy to get an answer at all. Tested standard routines for the most mission critical task of this tool.įirst of all, thank you for your reply and don't worry about the time you This doesn't mean data corruption cannot happen, but only that it cannot beĬaused by the internals of FFS. (security permissions, and file attributes, file times). errors in source code) is messed up file attributes. The worst error that FFS could theoretically cause by improper implementation (e.g. This step is transactional and only renames file names. Only if this operation succeeded, the target file is replaced by the temp file. network drop, power loss, etc.) FFS avoids this problem by copying the full file to a temp file first. The only possiblity to corrupt a file thous is if CopyFileEx is interrupted in the middle of the process.

Going something wrong in this routine is highly unlikely, as it has been tested by millions of users over more than a decade since Windows 2000.Ģ. This is the same routine used in Windows Explorer and probably most other Microsoft products. FFS uses Windows low-level routine CopyFileEx to transfer files. Natural assumption: Program X did something wrong.īeing the developer and naturally having the best insight into this program IĪm able to add some hard facts, to allow more rationale evaluations:ġ. Have had bad experience is, no matter what exactly went wrong.
