Do you have many important files that you would like to be able to store not only on your computer's hard drive but also on other computers or an external hard drive? Then you need to know that you need a content synchronization tool. Of course, there are good options within this segment, but most are not free, let alone open source, as with FreeFileSync.

FreeFileSync is a program that has been developed so that you can not only synchronize the contents of the different folders that are part of your hard drive but also compare them and thus know if you need to perform this synchronization or not. This tool is especially recommended for people with more than one storage unit.

How it works

The main advantage that FreeFileSync offers is that it not only assists us during this always annoying process of having to synchronize information between different folders, but it will also alert us when we are repeating contents. You will see that when you have to carry out this copy of your files, more than once you will lose time when copying them repeatedly, so with this little friend, you will avoid these situations.

Besides that, the operation of FreeFileSync, in general, is effortless since all you have to do is indicate the two folders you are going to work with, that is to say, the source folder where the contents are located and the destination folder. Then, all you have to do is select one of the two available synchronization methods offered: the one hand, synchronization by modification date, and the other hand, by file size.

And when FreeFileSync has finished its work, you can carry out a detailed analysis, filtering the contents so that only those in one of the two folders but not in the other are visible. This way, you will be able to know if you have any pending synchronization. However, if you prefer, you can also see only the repeated ones to check if you are missing a specific one. As you can see, this is a very versatile utility.

You don't need to be an expert to see that FreeFileSync can be an excellent application for making backup copies, considering that moving our files from one disk to another is speedy. If we add that, you can customize some step-by-step aspects even better.

Not only that, but unlike other similar software, FreeFileSync is also capable of copying files that, for some reason, are locked, so they will not remain isolated in the source folder, but you will be able to get them out of there. This is without losing sight of the fact that it can also copy all the attributes that are added to the NFTS files, such as the security permissions they have.

The user interface of FreeFileSync has pleased us from almost all points of view, taking into account in the first instance that we are dealing with a utility that is ultimately translated into many languages, which is already excellent news. We must add that moving between its menus is easy even for beginner users, so that you will feel very comfortable with it.

Keep in mind

Although here we have been analyzing the operation of FreeFileSync on Windows operating systems, you should know that this is a multiplatform application, which also has a version specially made for Linux. If you use a computer with this environment, you can also access the contents you have synchronized with this application, which is undoubtedly a positive point for some users.

The best part

FreeFileSync has some outstanding aspects that go beyond even the functions it offers. We are talking about the fact that it is a free and open-source application, which is also fully translated into many languages. To these differential details, we can then add the power it has to copy or synchronize our files, in addition to the much help it provides to prevent us from leaving some forgotten or other repeated.

The worst thing

Something that rarely happens to us is that when we analyze a program, we do not find weak points to mention, which is why we must especially highlight that this has happened in this first approach to FreeFileSync. We could point out that its interface could be a little more colorful, but it fulfills functionality, so we will leave this section vacant.

Rating

If you are looking for free software that allows you to synchronize your contents between two folders or hard disks, and you want it to be simple to use, and you don't need to know English, you can be utterly sure that FreeFileSync is one of the best possible options.