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I guess you know how long it takes to understand foreign source code.
If you give me a pointer to the place i have to change (may be several places)
I will take a look.

It is a question of mathematics to find a solution for a translation from one language to another.
This is a problem of graph theory and graph transformation.
A problem that can be solved in principle, even if gaps or imprecisions have to be accepted.
However, these are rarely a problem because ...

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If the program determines that it does not have admin rights, it can restart itself with elevated rights without losing the program state entirely . This is done by launching a copy of the program with admin privileges.

Where there is a will, there is a way.
Where there is no ...

I guess ChatGPT has a different opinion:

https://chatgpt.com/share/678940d9-1c70-8004-bd55-2fa0440ce1d4

Please take a look.
May be that the current sync operation has to be restartet but is it not worth for convenience of the user ?
Alternativly the rights requirements could be saved in the sync ...

This error occures if FFS tries to access files/directories outside the users rights.
It can be avoided if FFS tries to aquire admin rights(password) from the current user interactively .
If the user can provide the password FFS could aquire admin rights form the system and can proceed.
Other ...

Then it would be nice to have a translator that can translate a RegExp into a set of filter expressions that match the FFS-Rules. Just for convenience.

It would be nice to have more flexible patterns for in- and excludes.
As they are available on the comandline like [0-9] or [aDR] or [a-z] to match digits concrete characters or alle lowercase characters.
This are only examples.

*[0-9].* should match files like 'foo3.xxx', 'bar99.txt'
*[0-9][0-9 ...