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Thanks for you help! Sorry for assuming that the google drive feature was something that would also be included in this version as that's the main reason I downloaded it.

@PuddingisPOG

I've never used the google drive feature before, but I've had a look and you will need to create your own google cloud project. Have a look at https://apps.make.com/google-drive#create-and-configure-a-google-cloud-platform-proje and create your own freefilesync project.

Then put the client_id and client_secret values in the getGdriveClientId() and getGdriveClientSecret() functions on lines 88-89 of src/FreeFileSync/Source/afs/gdrive.cpp.

Then rebuild package and install.

The binary version from the website must have the developer's values builtin, so you should use that if it already works for you.

I'm getting an error for google drive authorization:

Missing required parameter: client_id Error 400: invalid_request Request details: flowName=GeneralOAuthFlow

I saw an old forum post of someone getting the same issue and the solution was to install the official version from the site. However I'd like to use the AUR version. Please fix this when possible.

Thanks for the quick response! I have now also updated from 14.7-1 to the new 14.8-3 on another system, and the update went smoothly.

@kdeler The developer has a habit of updating the existing release file without bumping the version number, that's what causes this issue!

I've updated the checksum now.

What I've done now (separately):

yay -G freefilesync

cd freefilesync

updpkgsums

makepkg -si

Worked for me!

I've also trouble with updating from 14.7-1 to 14.8-2 (sorry, my system language is german):

-> FreeFileSync.desktop gefunden -> RealTimeSync.desktop gefunden -> gui.patch gefunden ==> WARNUNG: Überspringe Überprüfung der PGP-Signaturen der Quell-Dateien. ==> Überprüfe source Dateien mit sha256sums... FreeFileSync_14.8_Source.zip.1 ... Übersprungen FreeFileSync_14.8_Source.zip ... FEHLGESCHLAGEN FreeFileSync.desktop ... Erfolg RealTimeSync.desktop ... Erfolg gui.patch ... Erfolg ==> FEHLER: Eine oder mehrere Dateien überstanden nicht die Gültigkeits-Prüfung! -> Fehler beim Herunterladen der Quellen: /home/john/.cache/yay/freefilesync context: exit status 1

:: (1/1) SRCINFO geparst: freefilesync ==> Erstelle Paket: freefilesync 14.8-2 (Sa 28 Feb 2026 14:53:36 CET) ==> Prüfe Laufzeit-Abhängigkeiten... ==> Prüfe Buildtime-Abhängigkeiten... ==> Empfange Quellen... -> FreeFileSync_14.8_Source.zip.1 gefunden -> FreeFileSync_14.8_Source.zip gefunden -> FreeFileSync.desktop gefunden -> RealTimeSync.desktop gefunden -> gui.patch gefunden ==> Überprüfe source Dateien mit sha256sums... FreeFileSync_14.8_Source.zip.1 ... Übersprungen FreeFileSync_14.8_Source.zip ... FEHLGESCHLAGEN FreeFileSync.desktop ... Erfolg RealTimeSync.desktop ... Erfolg gui.patch ... Erfolg ==> FEHLER: Eine oder mehrere Dateien überstanden nicht die Gültigkeits-Prüfung! -> Fehler beim Erstellen: freefilesync-exit status 1 -> Die folgenden Pakete konnten nicht installiert werden. Ein manueller Eingriff ist erforderlich: freefilesync - exit status 1

I've tried already:

sudo rm -rf /home/john/.cache/yay/freefilesync

and reinstall/update again after this - but same error.

should be fixed now, any problems lmk

14.8-2 has no problems building on my end!

Same initial error reported by Fuzzy here. Can't upgrade to 14.8