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My OS is Ubuntu 20.04.

The below errors happened after a directory sync operation. I had already backed all my files in my /home/me directory onto a blank USB drive using the command:
cp -r /home/me/* /media/me/AADE755ADE75202D/home/me/
This took 36 hours. Now I need to back up again. I want to ...

In the gearwheel icon's menu I found the option to delete permanently. I am able to do the back up now.

My OS is Ubuntu 20.04. I seek to back up everything in my home directory onto an external USB drive prior to migration to Pop!_OS 21.04.

The source directory on the left is set to:
/home/me/

The destination directory on the right is set to the USB drive:
/media/me/AADE755ADE75202D/home/me/

I set ...

Before I migrate from Ubuntu 20.04 to Pop!_OS 21.04 I seek to do the due diligence of backing up everything in my home directory. When I run normally I find FreeFileSync cannot access many, or all, of any directory that begins with a "." because FreeFileSync did not have sufficient permissions. So I ...