*.ffs_tmp ... cannot be deleted, 0KB in size, does not exist ...

[HansHans]

There is a file "filename~53d6.ffs_tmp" on one of both sides of the FFS-comparison. "filename is an existing MS-Excel-file, but there are more files and none of them is the base of other *.ffs_tmp files.

This file exists only on one side of both, on the distant SMB-system.

It has the
•size 0 KB,
•no date of modification and
•cannot be deleted, because the WindowsFileManager claims it does not exist at all, while still
•showing up in the fileexplorer.

Is there anybody who can tell me, what's on with this file?

[xCSxXenon]

It's a temp file that FFS uses to make sure the whole file gets transferred before overwriting the current version. You can delete it manually and be fine. If it won't let you delete it, there is probably something that needs to be done on the remote server

[HansHans]

If I use any tools for deletion (Windows file explorer, Total Commander, 7-zip compressor, Windows Command Shell), they all complain, that the files to be deleted does not exist.
But it is displayed in the file explorer and other file managers.

[xCSxXenon]

Host machine probably needs to be restarted or have chkdsk ran on that volume

[therube]

Wonder if something similar to File Opened in Shared Write mode, may not sync may have been going on?