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Interesting... Next I would run Spacesniffer on both and compare the results


i actually just used WinDirStat on both and found the culprit. theres an old 200 GB .iso left in the $RECYCLE.BIN folder, which doesnt appear when selecting to show hidden folders apparently. but shouldnt a simple ...

Maybe:
https://freefilesync.org/faq.php#explorer-mismatch


i used the default filters and when disabling them the left over data amounted to a little over 20kb. same for the symlink.
its finishing without errors as well, so no issues there.
i checked and the longest paths, including files inside ...

latest windows 10
the drives are two 6TB seagate ironwolf drives, bought them new just recently.
heres a picture of the E:\ drive (source) having 200GB less than the F:\ drive (destination) but only when viewing the properties of the whole drive. when i enter the drive, hit select all and then look ...

Im doing a 1:1 backup of one of my drives over to a second, identical drive using FFS. The content is all simple media files, so no programs installed to that drive or any system related folders. i also checked for hidden drives, nothing there. yet after the sync, the destination drive has about 200 ...

Why are you backing up ProgramData in the first place?
These are permission errors because MS is protecting the files. You can run FFS as admin to mitigate that, but I can't think of a reason to back up ProgramData.

i read somewhere that software can put config files in either AppData or ...

I'm kind of new to FFS, I've been trying to sync the C:\ProgramData and C:\Users folders over to another drive and its working for most of it but I'm also getting some 400 odd errors (I let it finish despite the errors). They are mostly split into "This file is locked by another process", "ERROR ...