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Using FreeFileSync 5.2 on a Windows 7 platform, I notice that the "date created" attribute on target files & folders is not overwritten with the source file/folder time stamp. Is there a setting or a feature I am overlooking, which would preserve the created and modified time stamps from the source ...

Understood. Unfortunately, my last few posts addressed two separate (but
related) issues, and I think that caused some confusion. The workaround which
I am using for Error 33 is to automate the "Retry" button. So far, that is
working. The other issue is that -- on Retry -- files which were locked ...

Yes. I was facing Error 33 when copying pst files, because they appear to be
locked occasionally by Outlook Instant Search. I found that pushing "Retry"
would allow the batch process to resume and complete, but the file which was
initially locked did not get copied (there are several pst files in ...

Changing Global Settings to use Transacational File Copy appears to have
resolved the copy failure mentioned in the post above. The process may require
one or two automated "retry" operations, but it is eventually successful.

Error 33 appears to be caused by Outlook Instant Search, when it is indexing a
pst file. Although Outlook.exe is closed, the indexing service locks the pst
file while it is being indexed. At that time, there is a temporary file
visible in the Outlook folder, such as ~Outlook.pst.temp. Usually that ...

My mistake. Once I learned how to create the filter properly, the log shows
activity for .pst files. Unless Outlook.exe is open, or FreeFileSync is in the
process of copying pst files, there is no other activity associated with those
files. I'm now running the batch file hourly, to see when the ...

Thank you. I tried Process Monitor, but I am inexperienced at using it. I
created a filter to exclude every process unless the path or architecture
includes .pst. Nothing showed up, even while I used Windows Explorer to make a
copy of a pst file.

Thank you for your comments. In Task Manager, I don't see a process which
appears to be locking this Outlook pst file. Clicking "retry" manually has
always succeeded. The file in question is one which I need to copy. I'll try
scheduling it at a different time. If that fails, I'll try automating the ...

Is there a way to have FreeFileSync "retry" once, automatically, if there is
one of these errors?

Thank you for the suggestion. I installed LockHunter. Right now, no process is
locking those files. The FreeFileSync batch always seems to run without errors
if I trigger it manually. The errors consistently occur at 5 AM local time
when the batch file runs on schedule, and I'm not at my desk to run ...

VSS is not supported, because Y: is a shared folder on a NAS. But I suspect
that the Outlook-related process which is locking the pst file is somehow
associated with FreeFileSync. The batch file is executed at a time when the
computer has been idle for at least eight hours, and Outlook is not open ...

Different errors appear under different versions. There is reference to a
locked pst file, but the file is not locked by another application. A
screenshot of the errors under versions 5.0 and 5.2 ispublished here: [404, Invalid URL: http://mauitradewinds.com//FreeFileSync.jpg]

Everything worked fine until I upgraded to FreefileSync 5.2. After that, I get
error 33 (the process cannot access the file because another process has
locked a portion of the file). If I click "Retry", it works. I am going to
roll back to version 5.0 and see if this error continues.

Using Taskschd.msc works fine. No errors, and the profile ran as intended.
Thanks for your suggestion!

Thank you for replying. I think you are correct that I don't need to use RTS
for this function. I used it because it executes the batch file, but I could
simply have taskschd.msc execute that batch file instead. I will try this and
post again.

I have just installed FreeFileSync 5.0 on a Windows 7 platform. It is
configured to perform a nightly mirror of data from a Synology NAS to an
external USB drive, using a batch file with RealtimeSync. In the morning,
there is a Windows Error Code 58 on the desktop. If I click "Start" on the ...