Problems setting up drives with variable drive letters

[BobMac1547]

Newbie non-programmer here...

Trying to mirror two drives and set things up for execution by task scheduler or timeout settings...
First label is "Backup 2 (NA7ENRX8) [5TB]"
Second is "Backup 2 Mirror (NA7ENS15)[5 TB]"

I put those two into the fields (see image)

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But when I click to compare, nothing happens.
BTW, if I use the drive letters rather than the labels, the compare and sync works great!

Any help?

[Plerry]

Not sure, but it may be related to your use of square brackets ( "[" and "]" ) in the volume names, as FFS uses square brackets around the volume names.
But, if FFS can not handle that and allowed you to select those volume names as indicated in the Note in the Variable Drive Letters manual page, you should receive a warning or error.
So this may presently be an omission or bug in FFS.

[xCSxXenon]

I didn't find a way the escape the special character. I wonder if Zenju even has an escape character. Putting it in quotations would be sufficient I think.

[Zenju]

Fixed: https://www.mediafire.com/file/08m78i5az8na7c6/FreeFileSync_11.17_%255BBeta%255D_Windows_Setup.exe

It seems we can get away without requiring an escape character, if we disallow '\' to be part of the volume name.

But when I click to compare, nothing happens.

You seem to have set up error handling to "ignore" all errors.

[xCSxXenon]

Valid since '\' can't be used in a drive name, even when manipulated with an autorun file. '\' Is then just used a a delimiter basically?

[BobMac1547]

Thanks all for the feedback. And, thanks, especially to Zenju for fixing things so quickly!!!