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I wonder if this is what's causing the problem I'm experiencing running FreeFileSync under Ubuntu 20.04. I'm Synchronizing NTFS originals over my local Samba network to an ext4 Ubuntu 20.04 share, when it gets to a folder ".../hplip-3.21.12", created by the installation of hplip in Ubuntu ...

This problem still exists in Ubuntu (Xubuntu) 18.04. Here's the result of ls -l in an affected folder: root@OptiPlex780:/media/kent/3F226CEF1B70943F/Backup_2/Everyone# ls -l ls: cannot access 'sync.ffs_lock': Input/output error total 156 drwxrwxrwx 1 user user 4096 Jun 24 23:12 Hangul drwxrwxrwx 1 u...

I'll just describe what happened: I connected a new, 1TB Seagate Backup Plus USB drive to an Optiplex GX620 running XUbuntu 18.04, created 7 backup folders in its root directory and set up FreeFileSync 10.7 Build 12/12/2018 - Unicode x64 to mirror 5 local HDD folders and 2 network folders. I stopped...