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Ok, thanks for the replies at all!

=> 2. Ok, maybe I don't have the insight here so what exactly does directory locking do? Is it just for other sync jobs not to interfere? What about other processes then?

I just ran into "Cannot set directory locks for the following folders" for the umpteenth time so I decided to finally google it and the best solution I found was to have a separate GlobalSettings.xml with deactivated directory locking and to pass it to FFS via command line (see https://freefilesync ...