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Thank you very much for the information, I know, but unfortunately that is not a solution.

The problem is that the file is created over a period of time and is therefore constantly changing.
There is no point in constantly synchronizing the file even though it is not yet finished.
And unfortunately ...

I'm running RealTimeSync.
Whenever a backup is created on the computer (Win11), it is of course locked by another process (backup software) during the creation time.
I keep getting the annoying message with the sound from FreeFileSync about the locked file (once a minute).

Can't you set it ...

RTS just isn't the appropriate tool for this. Task Scheduler is where you want to get this configured, for periodic syncing rather than real-time.

By the way, I was not able to start the service via SYSTEM as stated in the description. I had to use an administrator account for this to work ...

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Correct, my user "Admin" (Group Administrators) has access to my usual user files with which I am logged in.
It works, of course except for the fact that the synchronized data (in this case only in one direction) is given the owner Admin at the destination.
I don't have a big ...

Hello and thank you very much for the answer.

Yes, you understood correctly.

...users with a minimum of 13 subfolders and at least 5 folders that have nothing to do with users.

What I mean by messages appearing is the sync icon in the taskbar, which appears in addition to the RTS icon when a sync ...

I want to do the following...

I want to back up the most important subfolders under the user folder (e.g. C:\Users\USERNAME\).

As there are a lot of folders to be backed up in there (usually around 13), this doesn't work with FreeFileSync!

(By the way... in addition to the user folder mentioned ...