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Gotcha. Thank you so much for taking the time to help me. It's *highly* appreciated from everyone here. I'll report back if we find out anything interesting.

So just this morning, I got a report of someone who's VPN lost connection mid-sync. We were able to get her to re-do the sync before anyone else, so problems were minimal, and no one has gotten a database error. I've been assuming this is what was happening with the previous database problems, but ...

That's exactly the behavior we experienced. It's relieving to hear you explain it.

When a sync completes, the client writes out the database as a last step, correct? I'm assuming that my users aren't getting an error message during this last step. If that's the case, is it possible for the sync ...

Aww, thank you! I'll let my manager know that we've got something to try.

I'd be satisfied to find out that it was somehow data corruption that was breaking it. What's weird is that the syncs that I can personally account for *seem* to complete without error. That said, my sample size is small and ...

This is what it looks like when the error appears, for whatever this is worth.

H:\ is our samba server.

We use FFS to keep a large folder synchronized two-way between about 7 laptops and a central samba server. This has generally worked well. However within the past few days, someone will try to sync and get a warning that the sync.ffs_db is incompatible. The only other time I've seen this was when we ...