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What version of Mint Cinnamon are you running ?

Then I take it that there is no solution to this problem and FFS 9.5 is unable to run on Mint Cinnamon 18.2. Will you be updating your web-site to advise users who download this version that it cannot be used in that environment?

I also said something about "...people who are only users of this app (i.e not people with in-depth Linux skills, especially with the CLI)...

As I said: "This appears to be very similar to the entry in this forum of 6 Nov. 2017 (FFS 9.5 does not run on Ubuntu 17.04), for which I cannot see any solution."

This appears to be very similar to the entry in this forum of 6 Nov. 2017 (FFS 9.5 does not run on Ubuntu 17.04), for which I cannot see any solution.

I'm running Mint 18.2 Cinnamon, with kernel 4.10.0-40-generic. I can download and unpack either the Ubuntu or Debian versions of 9.5 64 bit, but ...

I have downloaded the version for 64 bit Ubuntu; it's a file of type tar.gz. Excellent! Now what do I do with it?

I see elsewhere in the forum is advice to 'run FFS from the command line'. OK, but I can't find any information in the forum under the topic 'how to run FFS from the commend line ...

Does your NAS have an IP address?

\\162.162.162.162\Path_to_Share\Share_Name\ to \\My_Backup\Share_Name\

Yes, my NAS has an IP address and I use that all the time to access the NAS from every other application in my LInux Mint system - it's only FFS that cannot use it.

I do not understand to ...

There is a nice way : install a nfs share on your NAS, and then you can access it as a local folder.
For example, in my /etc/fstab there is :

[… … …]
synology:/volume1 /nfs/synovol1 nfs rw,noauto,nofail,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.requires=network-online.target,x-systemd.device-timeout=30,user ...

I asked this question some months ago but there was no effective answer, leading me to conclude that this might not be possible under Linux. But I'm going to try again: how do I 'find' my NAS drive when choosing which folder to browse in FFS under Linux?

Well, that's interesting: I have been asking for some time on a growing set of forums how a NAS drive can be used with FFS, under linux. Nobody seems to know. Is this something that FFS cannot do? It works OK under Windows.

The attempt to mount the file fails with message:
"Error mounting location: volume doesn't implement mount"

The NAS drive controller (Iomega Home Media Network Drive) is running a highly customisd version of Linux, but of what 'flavour' I cannot tell. The drive itself is formatted as XFS, presumably because this particular NAS is able to be used as an iTunes streamer (which I do not use).

In normal use I ...

'm running Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon 64-bit. I just installed FreeFileSync 8.3. I want to synchronise between folders in my Home folder and those on a NAS drive. I cannot see the NAS drive when I select the 'browse' option to choose a folder for compare. How do I access a NAS drive?