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<H2 CLASS="western"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 15pt">Schedule
a batch job</FONT></FONT></H2>
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	<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Create
	a new batch job via FreeFileSync's main dialog: </FONT><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Menu
	&rarr; Program &rarr; Save as batch job...</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><BR>&nbsp;</FONT></P>
	<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">If
	the batch job shall run without user interaction or as part of an
	unattended batch script, make sure that no popup dialog stops the
	progress:<BR>Disable checkbox <SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Show
	progress dialog</B></SPAN></SPAN> to avoid blocking while showing
	the result after synchronization. Alternatively you can select the
	&quot;On completion&quot; action <B>Close progress dialog</B>
	located in synchronization settings.<BR><B>Note:</B> Even if the
	progress dialog is not shown at the beginning, a user can make it
	visible <B>during</B> synchronization by double-clicking the
	FreeFileSync systray icon.<BR><IMG SRC="../img/SetupBatch.png" NAME="Grafik3" ALIGN=BOTTOM WIDTH=660 HEIGHT=263 BORDER=0></FONT></P>
	<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm">&nbsp;</P>
	<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">In
	order to prevent error or warning popup messages from stopping
	progress, set <SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Error
	handling</B></SPAN></SPAN> to either <SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Ignore</B></SPAN></SPAN>
	or <SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Exit</B></SPAN></SPAN>.</FONT></P>
	<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm">&nbsp;</P>
	<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Setup
	your operating system's scheduler</FONT></P>
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		<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Windows
		7 Task Scheduler:</B></FONT></P>
		<UL>
			<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Go
			to Start and run</SPAN></FONT> <FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3><B>taskschd.msc</B></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
			<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>Create
			a new basic task and follow the wizard.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
			<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>Make
			<B>Program/script</B> point to the location of FreeFileSync.exe
			and insert the <FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">*.ffs_batch</FONT>
			file into <B>Add arguments</B>.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
			<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE=3>Use
			quotation marks to protect spaces in path names, e.g.: </FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><FONT SIZE=3>&quot;</FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><FONT SIZE=3>D</FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><FONT SIZE=3>:\</FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><FONT SIZE=3>Backup
			Projects</FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><FONT SIZE=3>.ffs_batch&quot;</FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE=3><BR></FONT></FONT><IMG SRC="../img/win7scheduler.png" NAME="Grafik1" ALIGN=BOTTOM WIDTH=708 HEIGHT=284 BORDER=0></FONT></P>
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		<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Note</B></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><BR>Beginning
		with Windows Vista the &quot;Program/script&quot; always needs
		point to an executable file like &quot;FreeFileSync.exe&quot; even
		if ffs_batch file associations have been set!</FONT> I<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">f
		a ffs_batch file were entered instead the task would return with
		error code 0xC1, &quot;%1 is not a valid Win32 application&quot;.</FONT></P>
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		<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Windows
		XP Scheduled Tasks:</B></FONT></P>
		<UL>
			<LI VALUE=1><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Go
			to <SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Start
			&rarr; Control Panel &rarr; Scheduled Tasks</B></SPAN></SPAN> and
			select <SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Add
			Scheduled Task</B></SPAN></SPAN>.</FONT></P>
			<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Follow
			the wizard and select FreeFileSync.exe as program to run.</FONT></P>
			<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Fill
			input field <B>Run:</B> as: <FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">&lt;FreeFileSync
			installation folder&gt;\FreeFileSync.exe &lt;job
			name&gt;.ffs_batch</FONT><BR><IMG SRC="../img/ScheduleBatch.png" NAME="Grafik2" ALIGN=BOTTOM WIDTH=406 HEIGHT=455 BORDER=0><BR>&nbsp;</FONT></P>
		</UL>
		<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Ubuntu
		Linux Gnome-schedule:</B></FONT></P>
		<UL>
			<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Install
			Gnome-schedule, if necessary: <FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">sudo
			apt-get install gnome-schedule</FONT></FONT></P>
			<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Go
			to </SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>System
			&rarr; Preferences &rarr; Scheduled tasks</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
			<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Enter
			the command as:</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal">
			</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">&lt;FreeFileSync
			installation folder&gt;/FreeFileSync &lt;job name&gt;.ffs_batch</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal"><BR></SPAN></I></FONT><IMG SRC="../img/ubuntuScheduler.png" NAME="Grafik5" ALIGN=BOTTOM WIDTH=629 HEIGHT=560 BORDER=0></P>
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