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xCSxXenon,

That's exactly what it took to get it to work, thanks! I first tried just adding "exit" as a second line in the batch file, but it never got to that line. But using "start" to run RTS did the trick and everything is now working completely.

Thank you to xCSxXenon, Plerry, Zenju, and ...

Ok, now I'm starting to get somewhere. njroute22, I had previously tried a batch file in the startup folder without success, but it might not have been configured properly. So based on your suggestion, I decided to give it another try. I created the file RealTimeSync.cmd and placed it in the shell ...

I put a shortcut to the FreeFileSync executable in the shell:startup folder, and updated the Target to include the ffs.real file as the command-line parameter, as follows:

"C:\Program Files\FreeFileSync\RealTimeSync.exe" C:\Users\sever\Documents\GoogleDriveSync.ffs_real

I set the shortcut to Run ...

I have tried it both ways, first putting the .ffs_real file directly in the startup folder, and then next as a shortcut. Both with the same negative results.

Thanks, Plerry!

Here is the screenshot:

I made the following additional changes this morning, still without a positive result:

1) I changed the "Run" option on the .ffs_real shell:startup shortcut to "Minimized".
2) I found that the "Run as administrator" option for the shortcut is greyed out because it's pointing at the .ffs_real file ...

BulkFileChanger did the trick, thanks, therube! Once I set the missing modification dates to the creation date, FFS was able to sync the files without any errors.

The path is "C:\Users\sever\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup". The shortcut is named "GoogleDriveSync" with a Target of "C:\Users\sever\Documents\GoogleDriveSync.ffs_real". I can't find a way to post a screenshot in this reply, however.

Yes, I checked in the system tray. It shows up there when I run the shortcut manually after the computer has booted. But nothing ever shows up when placed in the startup folder.

I was able to put a shortcut to a different application in the startup folder and it started up automatically. So this does seem to be specific to RTS. I'll keep digging to see if I can figure out what is going on.

Now that I have been running FreeFileSync a number of times on my new Windows 11 laptop, I'm finding that it keeps recopying the same old files over and over again. When I dug into the issue, I found that the files that were being copied had a blank modification time on the original drive. So when ...

I'll test that the next time I can shut everything down and reboot the computer. Is there any logging in Windows 11 about any startup issues? I dug through the Event Viewer logs but couldn't find anything relevant.

I recently moved from a Windows 7 desktop computer to a Windows 11 laptop computer and I'm having trouble getting RealTimeSync to start up automatically on the Windows 11 laptop. Following other advice that I found on this forum, I copied the xxx.ffs_real file to the "shell:startup" folder. But when ...