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<H3 CLASS="western"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Environment
Variables</FONT></H3>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">All
directory names may contain macros that are expanded during
synchronization. Begin and end of each macro is marked by a '%'
character. Besides special macros handling time and date (see &quot;Backup
Strategies&quot;), the operating system's environment variables can
also be used.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Example:</B></FONT></P>
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			<LI><P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm">
			<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">C:\Backup\%USERNAME%_Config&nbsp;</FONT>expands
			to<FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><BR>C:\Backup\ZenJu_Config</FONT></FONT></P>
			<LI><P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm">
			<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">%APPDATA%\FreeFileSync&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT>expands
			to<FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><BR>C:\Documents and
			Settings\ZenJu\Application Data\FreeFileSync</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Hint:</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">You can
add a great amount of flexibility to Batch Synchronization
(*.ffs_batch) by creating new temporary environment variables in a
*.bat/*.cmd file that are evaluated by FreeFileSync at runtime!</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Example:</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">The
batch configuration file <FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">C:\SyncJob.ffs_batch
</FONT>contains macro <FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">%MyVar%
</FONT>instead of an absolute target directory and is invoked by a
*.cmd file:</FONT></P>
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			<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">set
			MyVar=C:\Target<BR>cd &quot;C:\Program
			files\FreeFileSync&quot;<BR>FreeFileSync.exe C:\SyncJob.ffs_batch
			</FONT>(-&gt;<FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">%MyVar% </FONT>is
			replaced by <FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">C:\Target </FONT>during
			execution)</FONT></P>
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		<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Note:</B><BR>Temporary
		environment variables created with the &quot;<FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">set</FONT>&quot;
		command are only valid if the batch job is started by calling the
		executable directly! Using &quot;<FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">start
		/wait</FONT>&quot; or relying on Shell Execute creates a new
		program context without these temporal variables.</FONT></P>
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