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Hooray!

It took a few reboots but now it works. The magic seems to have been deleting out-of-date credentials for the target machine. On the next scheduled start, Windows popped up a box asking for my login and password for the target machine, after which FFS started right up and accessed the ...

Good idea -- I hadn't thought of that.

But still no joy. Maybe I didn't remove the right entry in Credential Manager? There was no entry for the familiar name of the target machine, but there was one for its IP address, which I deleted before rebooting and trying again.

No, I have "Run only when this user is logged in" checked.
And I use UNC syntax (that is, \\computer\folder\folder) instead of mapped drive letters.

I have one Windows 10 machine backing up files to another Windows 10 machine, using an .ffs batch file and the Windows Task Scheduler to automate the process.

I can run the FFS batch manually no problem, but it doesn't run when launched by Task Scheduler. FFS says, "Error: Cannot find the ...

My Office 365 subscription comes with 1 TB of OneDrive Personal storage, which seems like a great, free, location for offsite backups. I dislike the Windows 10 built-in OneDrive sync feature for a number of reasons, and would prefer to use FFS instead. Trouble is, FFS, doesn't seem to talk to ...