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As I mentioned in another thread. The new 11.18 version resolves my issue. Thank you!

This is really great. It now works for me. I am able to retire the half-baked custom script that I wrote to download files from Google drive and use FreeFileSync as I had originally hoped to do.

The log file generated by FFS, cleaned up for privacy, is repeated below.

Note that the file sizes do NOT indicate that the size is the issue. It is always the same files that fail.
gplib_1.zip 261MB
gplib_2.zip 92MB - FAILS
gplib_3.zip 1MB
gplib_4.zip 49MB
gplib_5.zip 110MB
gplib_6.zip 329KB
gplib ...

What is a "system log"? (Windows specific instructions appreciated.)
I reviewed the manual (https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=all) and I don't see it mentioned.
I've searched the forum and I find quite a few places where system logs are requested, but no places where it is described how to ...

Is there a FFS developer that can help me understand where the "15 second timeout" is configured so I can try a higher timeout?

I see this has been brought up several times, with lots of references to Windows Defender. But those solutions don't work for me.

I have a folder containing files that range in size from 261MB to only 1MB that I am trying to do "update only" downloading them from Google Drive to my local system on ...

@whalehead99: You say you found a place to set the timeout duration AND the retry count. Could you explain where you found those settings?