I use the Browse button to fill out the Command field and navigate to /home/toaster/Downloads/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync (where “toaster” is my username for this computer). I use FreeFileSync as the name for the launcher since this will be displayed underneath the desktop icon. So, I right-click the mouse on the desktop and select Create Launcher. I like to run the program from a program launcher on the desktop. Pressing the Extract button then unpacks the FreeFileSync folder into the Downloads directory. Double clicking on this file displays the included FreeFileSync folder in Mate’s Engrampa archive manager. However, when I attempted to install this package in Linux Mint 18 (Sarah) using the usual command to add the relevant PPA (sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freefilesync/ffs), I received the error message: Cannot add PPA: ”This PPA does not support xenial”.Ī little research on FreeFileSync’s web site indicated that directly installing the current Debian version of the software should work, so I downloaded the file FreeFileSync_8.2_Debian_8.4_.

My main data backup program is FreeFileSync in both Linux and Windows.

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