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But why can I copy or move files and folders with umlauts from "MAC A" to "MAC B" and from "MAC B" to "MAC A" over the network with the macOS interface (Finder) without any problems?

I have these problems only with FFS and only on the "passive device", i.e. the "receiving device" when syncing ...

Between Windows 10 and the MACs, there are problems with file names from time to time via the network shares,
if they are on the PC, they have to be renamed on the PC, on the MACs they cannot be renamed over the network.
But this does not affect all files with umlauts.
I sometimes suspect that it ...

But why can I copy or move files and folders with umlauts from "MAC A" to "MAC B" and from "MAC B" to "MAC A" over the network with the macOS interface (Finder) without any problems?

I have these problems only with FFS and only on the "passive device", i.e. the "receiving device" when syncing ...

What version of FFS?

12.2 had "Fixed drag and drop for non-ASCII folders (macOS)" (& maybe that is interfering ?) therube, 11 May 2023, 17:52

I always use the latest Version via autoupdate.

Yes, i simply replace the ä,ü and ö with ä, ü and ö and then is everything OK.

It seems that when transferring filenames and paths the encoding of the character set changes, but only when sending from FFS to the other MAC, when receiving on the device where FFS is running the encoding seems to stay ...

No,
"MAC B" can open all files with umlauts except those that have been synchronized from "MAC A", on which FFS is running, to "MAC B".
If I run FFS on "MAC B" and synchronize the same files from "MAC A" the umlauts work on "MAC B
But when I do it this way, files with umlauts from "MAC B" do not ...

I am using FreeFileSync to synchronize files with two identical MAC computers.

Both MACs are:
MacMini M1 (Silicon)
macOS Ventura 13.3.1 (a)
16GB RAM
HDDs formatted with APFS
Network over Ethernet with SMB sharing,
(AFP SERVER functions have been removed by Apple)

When I synchronize files between ...