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That attitude explains a lot about software ...

That's slightly disingenous... We don't all have a software degree or an IT department - like in my case, there's just me. A lot of people out there use software with some degree of ability, but that's like the difference between being able to drive and being a car mechanic. Not the same.

A more ...

Errr... good call... yikes? 423GB of stuff in a recycle bin I can't even see?
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So I wasted money on a new external, great... Should FFS at least flash a warning to check for stuff the user won't be aware of it even being there? So how do I safely get rid of this stuff and/or prevent it ...

So the other day when backing up to my 1TB iomega external drive from Windows 10 desktop with FFS it throws the 'not enough free disk space error'. Bear with me...

So I bought a new 4TB Toshiba and having run FFS with exactly the same settings and exactly the same amount of data to back up, I check ...

Thanks - if it comes back, I'll try looking for the .ffs_lock file. But for now, the Windows interal disk repair function seems to have done the trick.

caused the external to flake out for a split second.
Ah in which case I may even know the culprit, I do recall the cat bouncing through the ...

Right I don't know if that was the cause of FFS falling over or the effect of it falling over, but when I turned the external drive on today, Windows flashed me a message about problems with the external disk and after running the repart function, the FFS is doing backups as before.

Have been using FFS for years on Windows (Windows 10 at the moment) with a Mirror setting to an external hard drive I turn on manually to run a backup. Never any problems, tonight for no apparent reason all hell broke loose. I am the only user on this machine and I have full admin right, running FFS ...