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It is not freezing when accessing the locked files. It is freezing when it has copied all the files, thinking there are still some to copy.

Some are exes under C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps, for example skype.exe.

I don't mind them not being copied. The problem is that FreeFileSync freezes up.

I think I have identified the cause of the problem I am having. When I back up a user directory on Windows 10 there are certain .exe files it is unable to copy (Error_cant_access_file) and I press ignore for each one. When it finishes copying there are 10 or 13 files left to copy corresponding to ...

I tried monitoring with Process monitor and it froze twice. From process monitor it looked like freefilesync was looping round but not frozen. I have sections of the logs here. The first time was a large file:
10:07:15.7298540 FreeFileSync_x64.exe 5752 QueryStandardInformationFile C:\Users\deb\sync ...

Turning windows defender real time scanning off makes not difference. I am still getting it freeze. Always when there are just a few files left to copy from a directory of very many files.

I have been using FreeFileSync again today to copy a large number of files. I had it freeze three times. First time if froze for 4 minutes, second time for 6 and third time I gave up waiting after 10 minutes. It always froze when there was about 8 or 9 files left to copy out of a large number which ...

I have a similar problem. While synchronising a large number of files it sill stop copying on a file. The file count and amount copied stops increasing but it still appears to be copying. It is as if it has finished the file but does not realise it, so it carries on copying nothing. It has done this ...