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Hey, sorry for the late reply.

I did end up solving the issue by running FFS as administrator. I'm not sure why this is necessary though, when the permissions are set correctly.

Prior to making this post, I was actually running a version of FFS at least 1.5 years old and I still had this issue. I ...

I am trying to sync my documents folder on Windows 10 to an external SSD which holds a mouted Veracrypt container. When I run the syncrhonize command I get this error:

Cannot open directory "Y:\".

ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED: Access is denied. [DirReaderPlus]

I don't think it's a permissions issue ...