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Yes, media server was on by default. I forgot to mention that I had turned it off as one of my experiments to root cause the problem and that solved the thumbnail creation/deletion problem. But again, this only happens when mirror function is used and not update.

I finally resolved this issue. First of all, the thumbnail .jpg files do not exist on the source drive. These files are created and then immediately deleted on the destination drive when mirror function is selected. They are not created when update function is used.

I setup a new router for the ...

There are two 1TB drives. Each is connected to a wireless router USB port (two routers). Both routers are on the same subnet.

Each drive is mounted through "map network drive" on a windows 7 computer.

The thumbnail .jpg files definitely do not exist on the source (Y) and destination (X) drives ...

Thank you for the quick reply. There were no exclusions in the filter and I did not delete them so now I included \$RECYCLE.BIN\ and .access_conf\thumbnails in the filter.

But the problem is not preventing the tool from backing up these thumbnail files. The problem is why tool created these ...

G and H are just example. Actual drives are Y and X. Content of Y drive is being copied to X. Sorry for the confusion. Should have used Y and X

Hello,

I have two network drives mounted on a windows 7. Running FFS 11.14
Source = G
Destination = H

I select G:\ and H:\ as the two drives to be synced (contents of G will be copied to H )

When I initiate the sync, for every .jpg file in the source (G), a thumbnail size file about 5K is created ...