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Ok, just uninstalled 11.7 DE and installed 11.6 after noting the attributes on the desktop icons. No difference.. in both cases.. files owned by me as the admin user [-rwxr-xr-x 1 user user]. 11.6 launching just fine from the desktop icons.

An interesting observation with 11.7 DE installed is that ...

I think I have found the relevant file at..
/usr/share/applications/FreeFileSync.desktop... and the Exec= line is..
Exec="/opt/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync" %F
I have tried editing out the quotes, and taking them out of the desktop icon also, reboot and still no joy.

What I can't understand is that I ...

I read somewhere probably a year ago about how some Linux file managers were going to disable the ability to double-click a .desktop file in a file manager and cause it to run. Linux Mint 19.3 is about the target timeframe, but doesn't appear to use the file manager in question (https://gitlab ...

Thanks.. Have checked permissions and path and have read the above link and tried the suggestions there but no joy. I suspect something may be amiss in my Linux Mint installation so I might revert to my last Timeshift to see if that affects the issue. Thanks for the effort.
Steve.

Update...
I just managed to launch 11.7 by typing 'freefilesync' (minus quotes) in a terminal window (Home directory).

Desktop icon still doesn't work. Any clues here?
Steve.

Thanks for prompt response. I noted an 'uninstall' script gets created in the FreeFileSync folder so after each failed installation I dragged and dropped that into the terminal window, pressed Enter, which appeared to remove everything, including the desktop icons, before reinstalling. Current path ...

Hi, I have been using 11.6 for the last couple of weeks and being impressed with the application I decided to donate and subsequently downloaded the Donation Edition zip files.
I'm on Linux Mint 19.3. After extracting the FFS 11.7, the '.run' file appeared to work fine and the short installation ...