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I'm testing on Windows 7 Enterprise.

The new version seems to work better than version 5.15.

So far FreeFileSync has reported no 'cannot read file' errors during the mirror operation, even though I'm using applications that hold locks on the files in my user directory.

Thanks for fixing this ...

Thanks for the explanation, Zenju.

Would you like me to open a ticket for this issue on the [404, Invalid URL: https://sourceforge.net/p/freefilesync/bugs/]?

Another example, this time from FreeFileSync itself:

> Cannot read file 'C:\Users\iain\AppData\Roaming\FreeFileSync\Logs\update_z_drive 2013-05-27 110047.log'.

> The file is locked by another process:
Folder Comparison and Synchronization - 'C:\Program Files\FreeFileSync\Bin\FreeFileSync_x64.exe ...

I set up a FreeFileSync batch process to mirror my Windows user directory (`C:\Users\iain`) to my user area on my organization's network share (`Z:\`). The mirror target is `Z:\Users\iain`.

The logical path `C:\Users\iain` is an NTFS junction point referring to `D:\Users\iain`.

Sometimes I see ...