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I just upgraded a few days ago and this change caused a lot of problems. FFS started creating daily mirrors Mon, Tue, etc. instead of Monday, Tuesday, etc. and it took me a while to figure out what was going on. A better approach would have been to leave %WeekDay% alone and just add new macros ...

Thanks Zenju. You got it right. I was using the SYSTEM account for my batch job. I just changed the job to copy GlobalSettings.xml from my user account to the systemprofile. When I ran it I saw that the settings as indicated by C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming\FreeFileSync ...

Everything was actually working through June 30. I touched nothing and it failed on July 1.

I have a scheduled job that tries to mirror a folder from one drive to a USB drive overnight. It kept hanging because of a sync.ffs_lock file in the target directory. I edited the LockDirectoriesDuringSync line in GlobalSettings.xml to the following:
<LockDirectoriesDuringSync Enabled="false ...