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Plerry -- thanks for your help and your quick response. This is an education.

What I meant by "only works the first time. Subsequent runs mirror nothing." is that the first time I run the mirror operation using filters to include specific files, FFS behaves exactly as I want, i.e. all the new ...

I should have also said that my FFS Mirror job with filters that include folders works repeatedly. It's the one with filters that include files that only works the first time.

Thanks again
Lynn

I've set up a FFS mirror job that uses include filters to mirror selected files from the source folder to the target folder. It works perfectly, but only the first time. Subsequent runs mirror nothing. It's the same if I simply re-run the job or if I save it and reopen it.

I delete some of the ...

Thanks for the suggestions.

It's fixed now. The problem was the spaces (blanks) in the file name argument passed to FFS by the W10 task scheduler. The entire file name was properly enclosed in quotes ("). This had been working for a long time but stopped a couple weeks ago -- likely due to a ...

The batch file that runs every day at midnight has been working for a long time. It stopped a couple weeks ago. Upgrading to V12.1 did not change the symptom.

The message says "Cannot open file "C/Users/Owner..."
Unexpected file extension
Expected: ffs_gui, ffs_batch, xml

The properties of the ...