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by Mosto
29 Oct 2022, 20:07
Forum: Help
Topic: Square bracket destination drive not recognized and shows "?:\[EXT_DRIVE]"
Replies: 5
Views: 620

Re: Square bracket destination drive not recognized and shows "?:\[EXT_DRIVE]"

Thank you for the suggestion but this was not the issue.

So I investigated a bit more and found interesting things.
It is not related to a FreeFileSync issue, this is merely related to VeraCrypt or Windows or a combination of both.

What happens is that this situation occurs when we create a ...
by Mosto
28 Oct 2022, 18:23
Forum: Help
Topic: Square bracket destination drive not recognized and shows "?:\[EXT_DRIVE]"
Replies: 5
Views: 620

Re: Square bracket destination drive not recognized and shows "?:\[EXT_DRIVE]"

Thank you for this link and info.

Interesting to know that "?:\" indicates that a volume of this name was not found.
In my opinion this is a bug of FreeFile Sync, because there is really a volume of this name I entered. I triple-checked this, and the volume is properly mounted and I can write to it ...
by Mosto
27 Oct 2022, 18:13
Forum: Help
Topic: Square bracket destination drive not recognized and shows "?:\[EXT_DRIVE]"
Replies: 5
Views: 620

Square bracket destination drive not recognized and shows "?:\[EXT_DRIVE]"

Hello.

I have created an NTFS VeraCrypt partition on an external drive, then renamed it as "EXT_DRIVE" partition name.
Then I setup a FreeFileSync configuration to write to that drive by its partition name above for some root directories like "DVD", "Data", "Installers". Instead of using the ...