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Hello. I have a synchronization between a folder on my hard drive and google drive. It works well, and detects changes to the hard drive immediately. But lately I've been getting an error many times, which says that the name "sync.ffs_db" is shared by more than one element, and indeed, you...

I used the same installer that I had tried the day before, downloaded on the 18th.
Are you saying that the installer on the official website was changed the next day?

Do you mean installing an isolated program in a sandbox? It's very easy, it's a plugin that comes with Windows since version 10. See how to activate it:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/application-security/application-isolation/windows-sandbox/windows-sandbox-overview

The problem has disappeared. Today I decided to fight and I started by installing the program in a sandbox, isolated from everything. The installation went without problems. Then I uninstalled the app on my production Windows and thoroughly cleaned the registry of everything related to the program. ...

Has it happened to anyone else?

Yes. therube, 19 Sep 2023, 16:18

Thank you, @therube, Maybe it's a defect in the installer, let's see if someone else tells us about it...

Hahaha, it's just fascinating how much time people take to criticize and protest and get bitter. If they used a small part of that time to help, how much better the world would be. Of course I looked first of all to see if anyone had reported the error, but given that the version that gave me the er...

Well, for the simple reason that if it is a common error and it is happening to many people, it will not be necessary to specify what error it is. And I just want to know that, if it's a general error or just mine. I did not take note of the error when it appeared and I do not want to repeat the ins...

I went to install the latest version and it gave me an error, twice in a row. I had to go back to the previous version.
Has it happened to anyone else?

Oh, really interesnting idea, I will try inmediatelly...
There are several apps that assigns local drive letters to cloud or external connections (Rclone as you say, filecloud, mapcloud or the amazing mountain duck), so there are many ways to try...
Very very thanks, LeoW.
Regards.

Hello. I have two freefilesync tasks running, one with a private server using SFTP and one with my Google Drive. The Google Drive task works perfectly, the program detects any change on one of the two sides and syncs it instantly, as it should. The problem comes with the SFTP. Supposedly that connec...