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I have not thought about that, but clearly that makes sense. Thank you for your explanation!

RealTimeSync has as only monitoring folder the user profile of the current user, for example C:\Users\snx or the alias of it %UserProfile%. If a change occurs in the directory, however, the command line is not triggered.

More specific subfolder monitoring such as %csidl_Desktop% works without ...

Thanks for your explanation, makes sense in any case. However, according to my intuition, inaccessible paths would simply be skipped (with errors).

I am aware that the manual should contain only the most relevant information and be as concise as possible but I feel it is important to mention that ...

Is the RealTimeSync icon grayed out all the time even after the external hard drive is connected? Are all monitored paths available when the external hard disk is connected? If so, it could be the same problem as described here:

https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9083

Try to split the ...

I use FreeFileSync as backup software to mirror the contents of [internalSSD1] to [internalSSD2]/backup and [extnernalHDD]/backup. To do this, I have RealTimeSync monitor some internal and one external drive for (folder) changes.

This is my directory monitoring in RealTimeSync:
[internalSSD1 ...

I am not sure what to do with this information. It does work and is shown and referenced on the images and text in the documentation of RealTimeSync.

However, the displayed path is wrong.

I've set my RealTimeSync, so that when my external hard drive is connected and the path to the folder "\backup" is available, the transfer beginns.
Instead of the letter for the external drive I used the drive name [hdd2tbextern]. This is the tool tip of the 'inactive' RealTimeSync icon in the tray ...