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Are you running FreeFileSync in Windows 2000 compatibility mode?Zenju

Negative. But the Link was set for NT 4.0. Mea Culpa. It works now.

This bug has been fixed in the meantime. For some reason it only affects some XP SP3 systems and unfortunately was not triggered during tests. It's been fixed in the new FFS 7.4, release later today.
I just tried v7.4 and it still fails. The error message is different, however. The message no ...

I run FFS on half a dozen machines including several running Win 7 and MS Virtual XP. On one, and only one, of the Win 7 systems w/ Virtual XP, version 7.3 doesn't recognize that the virtual OS is Win XP SP3. I've been running FFS on these systems for several years and it has function flawlessly ...

Modern Unicode-aware programs shouldn't have a problem. Is there a particular issue you are seeing?
However you've done it, Windows seems to accept your use of colons in the date format, with one particular exception: In Windows 7 there doesn't seem to be a problem but in Windows XP it only works ...