Feature Request: Read-only 'folder' setting

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Joined: 5 Dec 2023

mericson

It would be very useful to have a read-only folder setting in FreeFileSync for scenarios where I am mounting a read-only synchronization source. My use case is mounting a volume that is a read-only backup.

The effect of checking a 'read-only' option for the folder setting would be to never attempt to write a lock file to that side of the synchronization as it is pointless on a read-only source. It would also make sense for it to disable synchronization variants that might write to the read-only folder.

I know I could change global settings (as below), but that is not a good solution because it effects both sides of the synchronization.
<LockDirectoriesDuringSync>true</LockDirectoriesDuringSync>
 <WarnDirectoryLockFailed>true</WarnDirectoryLockFailed>