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Thanks again - much appreciated. Happy New Year!

thanks, looks like that's fixed it. 'desktop.ini' was not in the exclusion filters - not sure how or why, I'm pretty sure I hadn't even looked at the filters. So I added '\desktop.ini' as shown in the screenshot and all looks fine now (I'm guessing the backslash at the front is needed ...

So its happened twice now - I've synched the 'Documents' folder to a backup folder named 'Documents (2024.12.29)' on another drive. When the synchronization (mirror) is finished, the backup folder's name has been changed to 'Documents' - i.e. the date (2024.12.29) has been removed.

An even stranger ...