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While it may be true that a synchronous I/O call "must" wait for the result before execution on that thread continues. It appears the I/O operation is happening on the foreground, or UI, thread. This entirely blocks the user from interacting with the application. If the I/O were to block a ...

I would like to request that FreeFileSync add S3 support (AWS & compatible services).

Yes, it is possible to use other tools to mount S3 locally, but that is dramatically less efficient then direct support for S3 through the APIs.

One of the primary reasons that synchronizing via the S3 API is ...

Sorry so late in posting this, but I eventually figured out what was going on. I was synchronizing with a Cloud storage provider that was just-in-time downloading files for the synchronization (can't recall if it was OneDrive or Google Drive). But it turns out for some reason FreeFileSync blocked ...

It would be very useful to have a read-only folder setting in FreeFileSync for scenarios where I am mounting a read-only synchronization source. My use case is mounting a volume that is a read-only backup.

The effect of checking a 'read-only' option for the folder setting would be to never attempt ...

I think I have more information... even without the error of a renamed folder, I experienced the same issue when I attempted to stop the same synchronization job.

I think the root cause is the source of synchronization is a OneDrive folder and the files are being 'just in time' downloaded by ...

After clicking Stop the dialog shows "Stop requested... 0%" and shows it had processed 0 bytes (I clicked stop rather quickly) and that it is in the middle of "Creating file" on destination app was hung in that state for approximately 10 minutes.

When the app finally became responsive it showed an ...