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Do you have Volume Shadow Copy active in FreeFileSync's global options (= default)? In this case the locked file should not cause trouble and will be copied like a normal file (but still one with extended attributes).

> Maybe it's a good start to limit the number of file copy retries

This is the ...

The trigger seems to be that the file must have some kind of NT extended attributes. I made tests copying files with ADS to Samba, but it works correctly. A certain file in my test however seems to have another kind of extended attributes and exposes the problem reliably when copying to Samba. In ...

It looks bad: Win32 "CopyFileEx" fails with ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS although the target file did not exist - even worse, the function call in fact *created* the file itself.

This is either a Windows bug in CopyFileEx or a network driver bug that maps the Samba Share into Windows. Now FreeFileSync has ...

Hi Zenju,

I did a Wireshark dump on my Windows 8.1 and got the following:
Request: (filename).ffs_tmp
Response: STATUS_EAS_NOT_SUPPORTED (but created the file with zero bytes size)
Request: (filename).ffs_tmp again
Response: STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_COLLISION
Request: (filename).ffs_tmp again
Response ...

Hi Zenju,

First, what a wonderfull program you've made. I am using it a few years now. Great work!

I still have this issue with latest version of FFS, 6.8.

I sync my files over Ethernet (Windows 8.1 Pro -> Samba server on Ubuntu server).
In my case it tries to copy an Hyper-V virtual machine XML ...