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The files were not locked. We simply mounted the share and started copying files. There is no antivirus on the Mac. The Mac is the client. The server is IBM proprietary, not Windows-based.

How come FFS proceeded to try subsequent files and the connection came back alive for them (only these two had errors (out of perhaps 100,000)? Coincidence I guess that they were avi files.

Consider the two errors in this screenshot
https://i.ibb.co/X5Nrmvr/ffs-error.png

We were copying about a terabyte from an SMB-based shared on a Mac running Intel 10.6 to an USB-connected RAID 0 APFS disk. FFS said all the files copied but these two. We could open and play them and when we ...

I don't follow. Are you saying that while FFS is running, I can add more tasks to it? Because that's what I'm asking it to do, but it seems that once a task starts, it is limited to just that one task until it's done.

Bumping

We would like to know if there are any caveats or special techniques needed when copying/updating iTunes, iMovie or iPhotos Libraries on an SMB file share (they were FFS’d from an APFS disk with Update)? If we wanted to update one library to another, should this work if we run Update -> ? Is there ...

I have an avi file in the source and it exists in the destination, but in the destination, its size is 0, so I would expect FFS to think it needs to copy it, but the program says it needs no action to be taken.
The file is HFoxP01_OP30_Train_04_49.avi
Here is a screenshot
https://i.ibb.co/gvb02QN ...

A-ha. I just redid it with junction points and it’s working. Thank you!

I am running FFS as admin and this is the output I get?



I have follow symlinks set and as you can see in the comparison, it's looking the symlink only, not to where it points.

Version 12.1 under Windows 10.

Copying fresh on a M1-based Macbook Pro running Ventura to an SMB share new files, I am getting a ton of errors like these

14:17:22 Error Cannot write file "/Volumes/users/Maria Gulinello/BIOS 7411 Data Analysis in Neuroscience/JMP sample data files/Functional Data/Anodic Bond~1252.ffs_tmp ...

I figured it out. All the “missing” files have at least one accented character in their filename. There must be some mapping translation error in the communication between the Mac and the SMB share.

Yes, but the last part, Andréen_2009-1896169728, doesn’t really. That is, if I do ls on it, I get

turtle:PDF joanfrumkies$ ls -l Andr*
ls: Andréen_2005-2651142912: No such file or directory
ls: Andréen_2006-3758449408: No such file or directory
ls: Andréen_2009-1896169728: No such file or ...

Unless more files have disappeared, I’d expect it to show no differences. (Remember I don’t see these files in either the source or the destination.) From my perspective, the initial preparation for the update found these files in the source. When it came time to actually copy them, something had ...

I ran update from a very large SMB share to an empty APFS volume under Catalina.

FFS reported hundreds of errors like the following:

15:36:51 Error Cannot read file attributes of "/Volumes/users/Gulinello Lab/marialab/drive/Lundbeck PWD model paper/PWD Model Paper Submit MBP/PWD model Paper refs ...

We ran into this again and were able to open files on the target. This implies the target files aren’t corrupt.

I launched FFS as admin yes.

The destination is a mapped drive, but the source is a regular mounted drive. Why would the destination impact what FFS sees in the source?

Second, it was working yesterday.

For some files I am getting a warning that FFS 11.27 can’t write the modification time of a file to a file share because the access is denied. Of course, that isn’t case, it just created this file and perfectly well has rights to it. This was also with FFS run as admin.

It’s not clear why this is ...

I launched FFS 11.27 as admin, yet it wanted to copy a shortcut as a shortcut and for a junction point, it claimed falsely that the path could not be found.

It’s not just this one file, but possibly a few dozen. Also, it’s not clear why FFS is trying to replace them because I think the user is “updating”, and I don’t think these files have changed since when they were first written.

My user on a Mac has gotten these errors like these with a reasonably recent edition of FFS.
Cannot move file
"Volumes/MariaDrive/Users 2013-2022/Noa 2022/Noa01 raw data/Noa01_SP_33_34~98.ef.ffs_temp"
"Volumes/MariaDrive/Users 2013-2022/Noa 2022/Noa01 raw data/Noa01_SP_33_34.xls"
EEXIST: File ...

Let's say I want to copy multiple sources to a single destination, but I want to remember where those sources came from. It would be nice if FFS could recreate the absolute path of the source in the destination.
For example, if I want to copy

C:\Users\coreuser\Desktop\Already Backed Up

to
Z ...

I am seeing kernel panics when copying using FreeFileSync to an SMB share on an M1 Pro laptop running 12.3.

I have a file share with numerous folders named _YU6L1~X (where do they come from, anyway?). I tried to exclude them in FFS, but it didn't work. You can see the exclusion and the folder showing up in the destination here

It's also a very wrong statement and I apologize. The computer I was using has DLP software on it and that was tripping up the USB copying. Moved to another computer and now it's copying way better.

"It's more likely overhead operations that are invisible to you. "

If I had been using Explorer, this wouldn't be happening. There's a bug in these overhead operations.

The overall copy speed is about .14 MB/s.

I see a lot of fluctuating performance in copying from a share (1Gb/s) to a USB 3 drive under Windows 10 x64, 1903 with 10.23. Sometimes, it can be pushing 70MB/s; other times, it seems stuck at 0. What might be causing this?

I am copying an 18 GB file between a Synology RS18017xs+ a Windows 10 computer, build 1803, on 10Gb with the latest version of FreeFileSync. Here are the speeds and those of Windows Explorer.

FreeFileSync
local SSD (NVMe) to Synology, 167 MB/sec
Explorer
local SSD (NVMe) to Synology, 478 MB/sec ...