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When I complained, I'd thought that the exclusions were gone for good until I re-scanned. But now that I know the rather obscure method of alternately hiding and restoring the excluded files, I find the feature very useful. However, option settings are scattered about; it would be helpful if, in a ...

This gets odder. Starting when I installed 7.9 over 7.8, when viewing the compare results, clicking an item to exclude it from the sync I'm about to do immediately removes it from the list. Likewise, if I right-click the center column and click "exclude all" with the intention of then clicking the ...

Because 7.9 broke a feature that I use extensively, I'll have to stay on 7.8 until it's fixed. In short, after doing certain mirror-mode compares, I heavily depend on visually examining the proposed changes; sometimes there are one or two that need to go the other way from the rest. It's always been ...

If I sync with copy-NTFS-permissions disabled, all goes well.
But if I turn that on, I get huge quantities of "Cannot write permissions of (fully-pathed name of a file being copied).fff_tmp.
Error code 5: Access is denied. (SetFileSecurity)"
I'm using an admin account, and starting FFS with "run as ...