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Same issue here on MacOS Catalina with FFS 10.20. Some files - but not all - with extended characters throw up lstat error 2.

eg
Cannot read file attributes of "/Volumes/music/F/Funkstörung".
Error Code 2: No such file or directory [lstat]

The files concerned are present and readable in Finder on ...

I've noticed that file comparison has slowed considerably since at least version 10.1 (possibly 10.0) on my Arch-based linux system. I see the problem on ssd(ext4)-network(ext4) and ssd(ext4)-usb(NTFS) folder pairs. The sync operation in all cases is working fine. No 'compare' slow-down was ...

You could install freefilesync 7.9 from http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/getdeb_apps/xenial/apps/getdeb/freefilesync , make sure it runs, and later replace the binaries with those from the extracted 8.2 zip using something like

mkdir ~/FFSbackup

sudo cp /usr/bin/{FreeFileSync,RealTimeSync ...