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I had a Putty (ppk) Private Key. And that worked with Filezilla and WinSCP, but not with FFS.
I converted that key into OpenSSH format and it also worked with FFS.

I had to convert the Private Key to a OpenSSH Key using PuTTYgen.
After that it worked fine.

I am currently having a similar issue when trying to connect to an SFTP Server.
It works fine when using WinSCP and FileZilla.

Was a solution eventually found?

Hello, I am trying to configure an automatic File Sync to an external FTP-Server. I Authenticate using a Private-Key. The connection works with FileZilla and WinSCP without any Problems. Trying to connect to the same server with FreeFileSync using the "Connect to Onlinestorage" button and ...