FreeFileSync Forum

If you mean the Windows optimization/chkdsk function, that never finds any error. If you mean wipe the disk and start over, that's generally what I've had to do, but it doesn't fix the problem right away. I have to wait several days, maybe a week, then it works fine again. That aspect remains a ...

@therube: They're two iterations of the same recurring problem. By the time of the 2nd thread, I had honestly forgotten about the earlier one, and then the replies criscrossed.

@xCsXXenon: The same thing has happened to me several times when FFS has updated. This most recent time, I struggled with other approaches for a couple of days but finally gave up and reinstalled the previous version (having kept the installation file on hand, just in case), and now it seems to be ...

I used diskpart to reset the disk attribute, and FreeFileSync is still giving me the "ERROR_ACCESS DENIED" response. It's not saying that the disk is write protected per se anymore, but I can't run an update.

I recently updated FreeFileSync on my Windows 10 machine, and now it seems to think that all of my USB flash drives are write protected and refuses to update them, even though they are NOT actually write protected (I can write to them just fine from Windows Explorer). My entire generally dependable ...

I love this program and rely on it heavily to keep my backups current, but the last few updates have triggered a weird problem, where all of a sudden the program thinks my flash drive is write protected, but it isn't. I can't find the setting that's causing the problem, so I wind up having to format ...