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I was just going to ask if you actually need exFAT. NTFS is going to be way better for Windows-only use
I copied the folder in question over to a exFAT formatted USB thumb drive and was unable to change the folder name, but could change the file names. I reformatted the USB thumb drive to NFTS ...

I was just going to ask if you actually need exFAT. NTFS is going to be way better for Windows-only use
I copied the folder in question over to a exFAT formatted USB thumb drive and was unable to change the folder name, but could change the file names. I reformatted the USB thumb drive to NFTS ...

I need to correct the post topic to drive is formated exFAT not FAT32.

chkdsk d: /f /r finished after 3 days but I still can't change the name of the folder or ANY folder on the WD 5tb USB black drive. Even folders close to the root directory with short names. I am able to change filenames, but ...

I know a possible issue:
https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12974&hilit=desktop.ini#p50416
https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11867&hilit=desktop.ini#p46140

See if there is a desktop.ini file in there, overwriting the display name. If you know how to use Command Prompt ...

Check SMART health data for the drive, might be failing.
You didn't say why it won't rename. Does it get an error?
Thanks for the reply. I do not get any error response when attempting to change the folder name. It just doesn't save my changes. Crystal disk info showed drive as good. I haven't ...

C:\Windows\System32>chkdsk D: /f /r
The type of the file system is exFAT.
Volume Serial Number is 82B4-746A
Windows is verifying files and folders...
Volume label is musica.
Windows is verifying file allocations...
100 percent completed..

dots are still active after 100 percent completed ...

I am able to rename the files in the folder, but not the folder itself on the external drive (5TB WD black).
I'm using Windows 11 NTFS drive. I recently synced the external drive attached to my PC with a synology drive over LAN.

In retrospect, I probably should have connected the USB drive directly ...

A Synology NAS recycle bin is a fully NAS specific recycle-bin.
FFS is fully unaware of this NAS recycle bin capability, so it reports it as unavailable.
But, while FFS is unaware of this, your NAS still moves files that are "deleted" to the recycle bin for those shares for which you activated ...

I've have a Synology 216j nas with about 2tb of music files and use an external USB drive to update them. I've tried Synology's packages, but USB copy is only one way and Drive never stops indexing the NAS.

FreeFileSync was intimidating at first to make sure I wasn't deleting files forever, but ...