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Thanks for pointing me to look at the bottom of the GUI window. The "View" was the same for both. What I then noticed was a ! on the Show Log icon at the bottom left. Looking at the log showed me there was a sub-folder missing in the destination tree, but it was empty. So there was somethi...

FreeFileSync V.13.0 I have 2 parameter files to perform identical, mirror, synchronisations with 2 external drives. The only difference is the drive letter (checked by opening the files in Notepad and running a compare utility) for each of the 10 parameter lines. If there's nothing to synchronise on...

Bingo! Changed to Mirror and all ran ok.

Many thanks.

For some reason this problem has come back. It seems to have started when I got back form a few days away. I used my laptop for activities while away and when back used FFS on the laptop to sync things back to my desktop PC. Now I get this message Cannot write file "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Win...

Thank you :-)

I can now run all my syncs without any error messages.

Only recently discovered FFS, so much better and more friendly than my previous program. I'm using Version 11.9 One use is to backup to an external USB stick (I:\) certain files and folders. In particular one pair seems to give a couple of error messages. Source folder: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Wind...