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<H2 CLASS="western"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 15pt">Command
line</FONT></FONT></H2>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">FreeFileSync
enables additional synchronization scenarios via a command line interface. To get a syntax overview, open the console, go to the directory where FreeFileSync is installed and type:</FONT></P>
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-h</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>1.
Run a FreeFileSync batch job</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">In order to start synchronization in batch mode, supply the path of a
<FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">*.ffs_batch</FONT>
configuration as the first argument for FreeFileSync.exe:</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">FreeFileSync
"D:\Backup </FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">Projects</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">.ffs_batch"</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">After
synchronization one of the following status codes is returned:</FONT></P>
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Codes</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><BR>0
- Synchronization completed successfully<BR>1 - Synchronization
completed with warnings<BR>2 - Synchronization completed with
errors<BR>3 - Synchronization was aborted</SPAN></FONT></SPAN>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">You
can evaluate these codes from a script (e.g. a <FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">*.cmd</FONT>
or <FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">*.bat</FONT> file on Windows)
and check if synchronization completed successfully:</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">"C:\Program
Files\FreeFileSync\FreeFileSync.exe" "D:\Backup
</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">Projects</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">.ffs_batch"<BR>if
errorlevel 1 (<BR> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><I><B>::if
return code is 1 or greater, something went wrong, add special
treatment here<BR> </B></I></FONT></FONT><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">echo
Errors occurred during synchronization...</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><I><B><BR> </B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">pause<BR>)</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-left: 1.32cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Instead
of displaying "An error occurred!" you can also send an
email notification (using a third party tool).</FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Attention<BR></B>Make
sure your script is not blocked by a popup dialog. Consider the
following options when setting up a FreeFileSync batch job:</FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Disable
checkbox <B>Show
progress dialog</B> or have <B>On completion</B>
automatically close the results dialog after synchronization.</FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Set error handling to <B>Exit instantly</B> or <B>Ignore errors</B>.</FONT>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>2.
Start a FreeFileSync GUI configuration</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">If you
pass a <FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">*.ffs_gui</FONT>
file, FreeFileSync will start in GUI mode and immediately start
comparison (but only if all directories exist):</FONT></P>
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"D:\Manual Backup.ffs_gui"</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>3.
Customize an existing configuration</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">You can
replace the directories of a given <FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">*.ffs_gui
</FONT>or <FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">*.ffs_batch
</FONT>configuration by using the <FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">-leftdir</FONT>
and <FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">-rightdir</FONT> parameters:</FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">FreeFileSync "D:\Manual Backup.ffs_gui" -leftdir C:\NewSource -rightdir D:\NewTarget</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>4.
Merge multiple configurations</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">When
more than one configuration file is provided, FreeFileSync will merge
everything into a single configuration with multiple folder pairs and
start in GUI mode:</FONT></P>
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