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Had the same problem, though ignoring the warning was all it took, it still synced up just fine. Downloaded and tried the new beta and the problem is fixed. Thanks!

Did you get this solved - I had the exact same problem but it turned out it was a conflict with Panda Cloud Anti-virus software - as soon as I switched antivirus program the problem was solved.

looks good, I think it makes more sense going to the more traditional progress bar approach.

Same problem - turned out it was a conflict with my antivirus software (Panda Cloud Antivirus). I uninstalled Panda and FreeFileSync worked just fine again.

In a previous post I ran into problems with FFS reporting "nothing to sync" when it showed what new files needed to be written to backup, and also Error Code 5 which didn't allow access as though the files were protected (although all other software allowed access to those files). Turns ou...

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No idea how to reproduce this issue. FFS no longer gives the errors shown in attachments ffs1.jpg and ffs2.jpg above. Now I just get the error code 5. But no other software shows access to the files is a problem including other sync software. I'm not real technical, and I don't know what DACL and SA...

I ran an experiment - I moved a couple of .jpg files into a source directory and then did a backup. The excel files I was having the problems with and the jpg files were now reporting error code 5 as per my attachment above. Thinking it was a Windows permission issue, I tried two other backup utilit...

Thank you for your help on this. I will check into why I have two Excel files among many others where access is denied. I can't seem to find where to locate the access permissions in Windows or Excel to change these, but I will keep searching the web for this. Despite my issues, FFS is a great progr...

Here is the file for the second situation (the ffs3.jpg post above). I've not yet been able to reproduce the first situation at the top of this discussion but when I do I will also send you that process monitor file. Thanks.

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I'm not sure how to do a process monitor trace - I'll have to check that out. In the meantime I also tried to back up the same files to another backup drive and got this message - which states error code 5. I don't get the error code using the first back up drive and it in fact does not report an er...

Here are the screen shots. When preparing to sync, FFS correctly shows one file to copy and the correct size. After "mirror", the info states "nothing to copy". All other files I'm backing up (many thousands) work just fine.

FreeFileSync has been syncing files between my C:\user\documents folder and a backup drive without flaw for quite sometime. lately though one MS Excel file will not sync properly. FFS correctly identifies it as having been updated, and it shows in the menu. But when I click on mirror, it runs, says ...