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Why would you want to do this, when you have FreeFileSync? First, it gives more flexibility and flexibility is always good. Second, it would really help my backup chores but to explain this in detail would be overly tedious.

As I've already said:
But I can see that this is going nowhere... I will ...

Just create a "real" batch file and enter something like FreeFileSync.exe "D:\Backup Projects.ffs_batch"
No, that is not at all what I mean. I mean a stand-alone batch file that can be run w/o FFS and that performs all required copy/delete/move operations completely on its own, w/o FFS.

But I ...

Okay, I understand. We'll see next time round whether this will do the job. Thanks.


How the idea of generating a batch file?

This should be easy already: https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=command-line
No, that would be too easy:-) I do not mean an ffs_batch file started with FFS. As ...

Did you run an initial mirror sync with move detection active for all these drives first? I did that for the first backup drive but not for the others. So I take it that sync.ffs_db files have to exist on both sides? If so, I can make sure they do but this adds another step to an already pretty ...

The subject says it all:-)

I have various source directories one drive e: (say Music, Photos, Videos, Books) that are all mirrored to a certain number of external drives, IOW the external drives are basically complete backups for these directories. Sometimes I move/rename something in those ...