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@Zenju, thank you. When I can recreate this, I'll come back with more info. I don't know what else could be causing what I saw. The modify times and file sizes were the same (when viewed with file manager->properties). It seemed the only thing that could be different was the access time.

I'll ...

After a "compare" on date/time, I mouse over the green arrows down the center of the screen. Some say "item on left is newer" (something like that.) But, sometimes all it says is "update [filename]." It doesn't say *why* it's being updated (what's different?). When I run the compare again on file ...

I have two external drives (named "A" and "B") which I alternate between when I backup. When I plug either in, it mounts to /media/user/A (or B). I do my backups this way so I can have a little more redundancy, and a little more versioning than just "Move files to user-defined folder."

It would be ...

The way Google Chrome puts a lot of stuff in my ~/.config directory, I want to exclude

/.config/google-chrome/

But, include

/.config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks
/.config/google-chrome/Default/Custom Dictionary.txt

The helpfile suggests this should work:

Example: Exclude a sub folder ...

I found a libpng12 package for Ubuntu 16.04 here:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libpng12-0

I installed the amd64 version and now FreeFileSync works. (Not sure if it breaks anything yet.).

I just installed Lubuntu 16.10 (64bit) and FreeFileSync now errors:

./FreeFileSync: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I installed the latest 64-bit version (FreeFileSync_8.5_Ubuntu_16.04_64-bit) and still get the error ...