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OK, I read your comprehensive reply and also looked at the underlying philosophy of FreeFileSync. I then took the following action.

I inspected both the source and destination folders to see if there were any significant problems with files, changes etc. Then I made a fresh copy on the target using ...

I have a QNAP RAID array. I back up a lot of folders very successfully but, for one product called "CompanionLink" I get the messages:

00:46:12 Warning The following items have unresolved conflicts and will not be synchronized:

dejaoffice.db: Both sides have changed since last synchronization ...

When syncing I occasionally get a message "Same Date but Different Size". I usually select the files and force an overwrite of the backed-up version.

Can't we have a feature that allows the setting of an "action" to be carried out against certain errors?

I plan to execute a lot of automatic ...

Yes, seems ok now.

I tried to download the latest donation editions (11.29) and I get a "500 Internal Server Error".

It is the same for all versions.

Here is one of the links:

https://freefilesync.org/donation-edition/FreeFileSync_11.29_%5BDonation_Edition%5D_Windows.zip?tx=<redacted>&name=David+Goadby&expire ...

I assumed that they would be and was clutching at straws. It is still working ok. Strange for sure.

Thanks for the reply.

I run a batch backup every day at 00:05am. It has run perfectly for some time until yesterday when it just did not run. I opened up the GUI and was met with an "upgrade available" message. Is it possible that this message is still triggered during batch runs? I turned off the "check automatically ...

If this is a cron problem then, as well as the variable "DISPLAY=:0" you usually need "XAUTHORITY=/home/<your user name>/.Xauthority". I used to use the GNOME cron GUI tool but it is no longer supported on my SUSE 15.1.( I am trying to fix this). This tool actually did it's work using Python scripts ...