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New to FFS. Running Win 10 X64. Making simple backups of "my documents" of a work disk to an external disk once/twice a week. Trying Mirror variant. Like to use "Detect Moved Files" but note that when I don't allow right-side files to be deleted the checkbox is greyed out.
Can you please explain ...

Ouch! One slash did the trick. Thanks. I didn't know about the drop-down. Thanks again. Great piece of work. How does donate work? -- If I donate I get the CURRENT donate version, I can use forever, but I must donate again to get a future donate version?
Thanks,
Steve

Yesterday I copied my whole D: (My Documents) [WORK_VOL1} to an external USB-connected drive[DVOL_BKUP1]. Today I deleted a few files from WORK_VOL1 then started to do a mirror sync. FFS now tells me many (173,313) files and folders will be deleted from the right side DVOL_BKUP1 because they don't ...

What is the correct exclude filter?
Should I use: [PIX-VOL2]\FFS_Old_versions\%DATE%-%hour%
What do you suggest?
Many thanks,
Steve

Now using version 10.2 under Windows 10 and it's still getting the error. Please see attached screen shot files. What should I try?
Thanks,
Steve

I think using this exclude has solved my problem:
\FFS_Old_versions\*

Does that make sense?
Thx,
Steve

I'm doing an "Update", using Versioning, going from the full "D" drive on left, to full "H" drive on right, have the Versioning folder on the right, and put in an exclude for the versioning folder /FFS-Old_versions/. Yet I keep get error message:

The versioning folder is contained in a base folder ...