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I have run FreeFileSync and Process Monitor. On the remote PC I see a truncated 260 character length path.

There is no \\?\ at the beginning of the path. This is with 11.3

HTH

Path limits have been removed and both PCs have been rebooted. File synchronisation is taken place between a client PC and its host in a Remote desktop session.

It is unique to long path lengths. This does not affect paths less than ~256. One with a length of 235 charcters is ok, one with 260 is not.

I thought there was no limitation of path lengths with FFS?

I'm getting errors where I'm synchronising files with FFS working on a remote PC using Remote Desktop.

Cannot move file
"\\tsclient\D\W..............................e~50d1.ffs_tmp" to "yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy"
ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES ...

I often use FFS over Remote Desktop rather than setting up a VPN.

Everything else then becomes a snails pace where FFS takes over the bandwith. Is there a application that can throttle the IO for a specified process, that's free and hopefully open sourced?

I do feel it's a shame this feature is ...

Right, I'm not sure which version of Samba I'm running but believe it may be 3.6.25. I have the option of SMB1 and SMB2. Both were ticked initially.

Choosing SMB1 and SMB2 over the other or both made no difference. However on the share there is a tick-box for "Inherit Perms" which when ticked made ...

Many thanks for the explanation. I have emailed you a cropped PML file but uncertain it will give you much additional information.

While I agree that the server leaves a a mess for FFS, it should be apparent to FFS that:

1) There wasn't a xxxx.ffs_tmp file before the error
2) there is a zero ...

If I look at the offending line from the Process Monitor screen output I get:

High Resolution Date & Time: 23/11/2020 20:42:08.2455887
Event Class: File System
Operation: CreateFile
Result: EAS NOT SUPPORTED
Path: \\DNS-323-1\Backup\Program Files\Internet Explorer\ExtExport~ba93.ffs_tmp
TID: 8708 ...

How do I get rid of theses 29,000 errors?

1) I make sure there are no ".ffd_tmp" files omn the NAS drive and delete any that I see.

2) I run FFS Version 11.3 - 64 Bit - 02/11/2020 and I get the following errors.

3) I'm also left with 30,000 useless "*.ffs_tmp" files on the NAS drive, which I can ...

fr-FR-3-0~2466.ffs_tmp is the temporary FFS file, it doesn't exist on my HDD
JPringle, 14 Sep 2020, 09:58

I wonder if it has a wobbly when the file name includes a "~"?

What is hosting that network storage? Can you try a small set of those files to a local destination? It may be something with that


This is a local NAS storage device, A Dlink DNS323 running ALT-F. It uses SMB 1 and 2. I have something like 2TB of data (2 million files) stored on this NAS device ...

This is an example from a failed run:

16:31:59 Error Cannot copy file
"C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu18.04onWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState\rootfs\usr\share\terminfo\h\ha8686" to
"\\DNS-323-1\Backup\C-Backup\Users\Mike\AppData\Local\Packages ...

No! 30,000 seperate files!!

The example I gave was bad one as being a short path and Windows 10 system file.

Unfortunately the log file only shows the first 25 of 28,931 items but I think most have a long path name.

BTW Your suggestion may take a while :-)

I've got 30,00 of these errors:

Cannot copy file
"C:\DumpStack.log" to
[Pathname]\[filename].ffs_tmp".
ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED: Access is denied. [CopyFileEx]

And as many files with the ending ffs_tmp in the versioning folders.

Just counted near 40,000 files ending in ffs_tmp in the backup directory ...

I get an error "Cannot create directory" while attempting to backup a number of files with what appear to be long file-names.

Is there a limit to a directory path length?

Doesn't anyone else use Remote Desktop to sync files with a remote PC?

I've also just checked with FFS 10.10 and I can see "." files in the list and confident they will sync ok.

Dot files are also Linux system files and I have known some NAS drives to refuse to save them, such as a D-Link NAS when using FTP. I'm wondering if there is something else going on?

What ...

I use FFS to synchronise folders between two desktop hard disks.

The comparison stage takes quite a time and if the connection fails and I have to login again into the Remote PC, this comparison stage fails.

In essence it can no longer find files in \\tsclient\D\........ and I am given the option ...

Many thanks for the quick response. It worked perfectly.

For info, this is being used with 'ES File explorer' as a means of backing up files in the Android root memory area using the "Show on PC" feature that then seems to emulate a FTP server. The phone is obviously rooted.

All is well.

I'm using ES File explorer to access the root storage.

I'm having intermittent issues with some copying directories using cut and paste, so perhaps not a FFS issue.

I get the following error below after updating to 10.8 If I revert back to 10.6 I also get the same error.

There was time under 10.6 when I could sysnchonise root folders on my phone. Can anone point me in the direction of a solution? Just that this used to work! It's very frustrating ...

I followed:
https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=schedule-batch-jobs

with the objective of running this at a specific time of the day.

I created a ffs_batch file from FFS from 2 jobs backing up 2 folders. I highlighted the two jobs and went "File>Save as batch job" and included this in the ...

I'm wondering if this was caused by a remnant of MalWareBytes where I inadvertently agreed to a trial subscription of their "Real-Time Protection".

It is now scanning something like 1,000 times faster!

This is using a VeraCrpty volume on a NAS Drive.

I've checked the file system for errors using chkdsk, there were none; and it worked fine for a small smaple directory.

I am now backing up in mirror mode a whole drive, and so this has in the order of 2,000,000 files or more.

The comparison stage ...