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Thank you a million time over for your wonderful software and all your hard work. Even though 6.4 is fixed, who can resist the temptation to play with the 6.5 beta? ;-}
Zenju, I don't usually like to report anything on "it feels like" or "it seems like", but..
I have been using 6.5 beta all day. I ...

Yes, it's a show-stopper bug, but it only occurs in a specific scenario (Windows XP + task scheduler) therefore it's not important enough for a new FFS version, but so easy to fix so that there is no need to wait for 6.5.
Thank you a million time over for your wonderful software and all your hard ...

I can confirm that downgrading back to 6.3 does make all well.
Something is broken in 6.4.

Immediately after updating to 6.4, FFS will not run as a scheduled task. WinXP SP3.
It stops with this error on all FFS scheduled tasks:
FreeFileSync - An exception occurred
Cannot get process information.
Error Code 0: The operation completed successfully.(CreateFile)

Then I have to click the "OK ...

Zenju, I installed 5.21beta on my W2K machine and my Win7Pro64 yesterday. They both performed their backups properly.

Zenju, if it helps, I tried the 5.21 beta that you posted in another thread on the XP Pro machine. It worked. I had only 2 errors relating to file permissions on 2 files.

Here's the log from a Win2k machine that had the backup drive connected directly to it. FFS version is 5.20 on this machine, as well.

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|08/26/2013 - 7: Synchronization completed with errors
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| Items processed: 0
| Items remaining: 372,130 (193 ...

Hello, I am getting this same error with 5.20 only. It occurs even if i leave the administrator account as the default logged on account. The ffs batch and the scheduled task have been created by the administrator.
This error is occurring on both WinXP Pro 32bit and Win7 Pro 64bit.
Below is the log ...