ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED: Access is denied. [CreateFile]

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TonyK1321

Hello - When I run FFS, at the end when it tries to write the log file to:
C:\Program Files\FreeFileSync
I get this message:
ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED: Access is denied. [CreateFile]
I'm running FFS as a user not as an admin. What can I do to allow FFS to write the log file to that location?
Thanks,
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xCSxXenon

Run as admin or change permissions to that location
Log files don't usually write there though, are you sure you want that?
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TonyK1321

Thanks. I decided to change the location of the logs to a different sub-dir. It works now.
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Plerry

By default, the FFS save-location for log-files is C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Roaming\FreeFileSync\Logs
So, you must have changed that previously.
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Zenju

He probably extracted the "portable" installation into C:\Program Files\FreeFileSync