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You are speaking about a "Move" icon but there isn't such icon:
there are two icons, one with a green + and one with a red - and a tool-tip that tells "Move ...".

I'm using FFS 10.23 free and I'm testing a file move.

After Compare I can see the moved file with a + icon and a - icon, but if I hover the mouse pointer over those icons the tool-tip tells "Move file on the right".

In your test you are simply moving files or you are also changing those files? To tell that those files are copied and deleted and not simply moved, you are looking at the log file? Did you know that ... "Detection is not supported by all file systems. Most notably, certain file moves on the FA...

Take a look at this (short) discussion:
sync fails with out of memory error

"When" you have check-marked the option [x] Detect moved files?
Because the db is created only after you have selected that option.

Anyway that option can be honored only after the first full Mirror sync because it needs its database to operate and that db is created the first time and updated then.

Did you also select the option "[x] Detect moved files" while selecting the Mirror variant?

Anyway this option can be honored only after the first full Mirror sync because it needs its database to operate and that db is created the first time and updated then.

https://freefilesync.org/faq.php#limitations Are there limitations on the number of files to sync? FreeFileSync imposes no artificial limitations on how many files you can sync. Practically speaking, the only limiting factor for extremely large sync jobs is the amount of free memory available: For e...

When I use FFS as a backup tool, I use the Mirror variant.

Instead you have chosen to use a Custom variant doing nothing in case of "Right side is newer" and "Item exist on right side only".

Try with the Mirror variant.

Did you have this problem only with Laptop BU as the mirror destination or with whatever you use as mirror destination?
This problem arise using the Laptop BU root folder as destination or you have selected a folder?
In case try using a folder.

Why run two different sync job when you can setup just one to do both without warrying about folder locking?

It seems that you have setup FFS to do a "Two way" sync, the default when creating a new sync job. Go to Synchronization settings and select the "Mirror" variant, use the option [x] Detect moved files. Done!. This setup do exactly what you are looking for. This way you will be &q...

The desktop.ini file is present only in few folders and in folders customized by the user.

In my FFS the default filter exclusion is as follow:

\System Volume Information\
\$Recycle.Bin\
\RECYCLER\
\RECYCLED\
*\desktop.ini
*\thumbs.db

So desktop.ini is not considered during comparison and sync.

It is better to isolate each backup from the others, using a destination folder different for every backup and use the Mirror variant.

You are right.

Zenju, why is not always possible to select Detect Moved Files?

From the online Manual:
Synchronization Settings. Detect Moved Files

FFS consider the left and right folders the "root", the starting point of any subsequent processing.
FFS don't consider anything back in the left and right paths.
Everything in the filters must be relative to this "root".

First thing I should have asked is your exact folder pair and the type of synchronization (Two way, Mirror, etc.) I try to guess: Synchronization variant: Mirror Left: \\SCH-DESKTOP1\Users\John\AppData\Local\GeometryDash\ Right: C:\_SCH_Desktop1\John\GeometryDash\ >But if I "add a folder pair w...

Assuming you have only one folder pair: - remove anything but * from your include filter - your exclude filter may contain something like this: \System Volume Information\ \$Recycle.Bin\ \RECYCLER\ \RECYCLED\ *\desktop.ini *\thumbs.db In case, remove anything related to mp3 files. - add a folder pai...

Try this command:

xcopy "C:\Battlestate Games\EFT (live)\EscapeFromTarkov_Data\Managed\Assembly-CSharp.dll" "C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\backup\"

It is not clear what you are trying to do.

The FFS dialog window shows only folders, as stated in the caption "Select Folder", because its purpose is to select a folder.

What action opens that window?

Exclude (or Include) Items via Filter

Normal users cannot write to the root folder of the system drive C:.

You can start FFS as Admin but it is better you revise your sync strategy specifying the folders you want to sync both left and right sides.

I agree with making the html log file optional, because I use a vbs script to parse the log file.

Menù Tools, Options, Delete logs after x days.

No way using AllDup, instead try V Folder Dups, an obsolete software that you can still download from Softpedia https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/File-Management/V-Folder-Dups.shtml

Some screenshots in attachment.

Use this guide at your own risk. If you don't fully understand what's going on, don't do it! Scenario in FFS Mirroring of LEFT to RIGHT LEFT folder C:\Users\Gianni\Pictures\ RIGHT folder J:\Pictures\ (from now on I will use simply LEFT and RIGHT to refer to those folders) - on the LEFT the files/pho...