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lol I've been working a an app for Linux/Windows and had problems when Onedrive was being used, fortunately the solution was relatively simple. Windows, the one reason I use Linux as my main OS, Windows is relegated to a VM. Good luck with MS ;)

Yep, just tried a backup after deleting a couple of files out of folder that was giving me the problem and it sync'd to the cifs drive and maintained the folder name.

Thanks again for your help LeoW, you pointed me in the right direction :-)

Now you mentioned about cifs version, I just tried changing the entry in fstab to vers=3.0, and the damn thing still connects !!. I'm sure that in Linux 20.3 it failed, ah well, that may cure my problem.
Yes, they copy fine from Linux, it was only happening inside FFS.

The USB on the router is actually 3.0. The drive is an SSD. I only use it for storage and as a media server for the TV, and in that respect it's fast enough. I'd love to upgrade it, but getting that past the financial department could be tricky lol !!

I'll take a look at that then. The only problem may be what the remote drive is plugged in to, it's a TP-Link modem router that has two usb ports, but it only uses cifs 1.0. I'll try and find some time to see if sshfs wants to play nicely with it.
No need for apologies, we all make mistakes.

Thanks for the reply LeoW. SFTPFS is not available in the Linux Mint 21.1 package manager.
Being as it's only one folder I'll just have to make sure that the name of any folders I want backing up aren't too long and don't have too many spaces.

I'm backing up to an NTFS formatted remote drive connected via cifs. When backing up a long local folder name FFS changes the name on the remote cifs drive. An example is....
local folder name is ' BPM Pro v1.3 pre mirror flip ', FFS changed this to ' BIU7WR~0 ' on the remote cifs drive with.
I can ...

Ignore, it's me being dumb !!

Version 11.6 in Linux keeps on installing in my .wine folder. For the install folder I gave it /home/pete/ but it it deleted my current 11.5 version and installed in the .wine folder???

I've been struggling with this for several days, I was unable to find any definitive answer on the web. I finally managed to do it yesterday so I thought I'd share how I did it. It's basically down to mounting the share as a named drive, so here are the steps....

1. create a folder to mount the ...

Thanks for the reply Radish. Yes, I see what you're saying, that makes sense to me.

I knew about the per configuration setting, just assumed the Options thing was to change it globally.

I get the same thing but in Linux Mint, FFS vers 10.9

jeez, bad day, just found the default log path in options, obviously !

actually, is there a way to globally change the default log file path ?

damn !! I think I've found out why, the default log file path was /home/pete/.config/FreeFileSync/Logs, I was looking in the main FFS folder which is /home/pete/FreeFileSync

Hi, I'm using version 10.9 in Linux Mint 19.1. FFS doesn't appear to be creating any log files, not even LastSyncs.log. Would log files only be produced if an error happens ? I did have log files in the log folder and also LastSyncs.log but they all had file dates from last year, I deleted these in ...