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Weird and weirder... WIN11 just updated and now things work better. I both get a log file and files do get copied. Go figure...

Running everything as admin and had to elevate drives showing with regedit but that context thing about drives is old known stuff. Just tossing in the link about it
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Wait, I don't even have FFS running anymore. I booted. And it screams about network drives.
And I never use realtimesync.
Ok, must be a new setting somewhere I missed...
AND the original problem.

Cough, Win8.1 old server which has worked fine until now because everything runs on vmware :) . It's up next in the renew entire infra... :)
Short story: 3T 100MB disk basically at the other end, happy to get 70-80M in a 1G network.

Situation is hung. So bug or Win11.
Copying via File Explorer ...

Answering to myself here...

Nope, hung again... so this is because of certain files like exe or something like it. And massive timeouts.

So run as administrator did not actually help, just happened to move one file forward (at the same time?).

This really needs some "real reason" for speed ...

Just set up a new PC and transferred eveything (using WIN10).

[run as administrator] = maybe the reason (NOPE), rant written earlier needed though... imho

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Set up FreeFileSync the same way as before on Win11 (except kept fail-safe, removed locked, DACL options).

Get a few ...

Just my 2c. Upgraded the entire infra to Win11 (or in progress - read 72h NAS copying, twice).
1G network (old cables I know) and freefilesync is dead slow, so donated again just in case something has been fixed, sorry, improved. And installed the donated version.
First issue I run into is the above ...