I am running FreeFileSync on Linux Fedora (Mounted NFS to USB Key).
$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version: n/a
Distributor ID: Fedora
Description: Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation Edition)
Release: 42
Codename: n/a
FreeFileSync - Examples of errors
They are either a socket file or links files.
See all images print screen attached.
Examples of errors got on screen
11:49:53 AM Error Cannot open file "/batnas/software/Software_Development/home_sherlock/jacques/.pcsc12/pcscd.comm".
EACCES: Permission denied [open]
11:54:01 AM Error Cannot open file "/batnas/software/Software_Development/home_sherlock/jacques/.var/app/com.google.Chrome/.ld.so/active".
EACCES: Permission denied [stat]
Cannot read file attributes of "/batnas/software/Software_Development/home_sherlock/jacques/.var/app/com.google.Chrome/.ld.so/active".
EACCES: Permission denied [lstat]
Thank you in Advance.
Problem under LInux with links and socket
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- It's always links or sockets
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- Error screen while running
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- Same error with socket file(s)
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- My Setting concerning Links
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- My FreeFileSync Version Linux
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A symbolic link is a fancy shortcut. That being said, depending on the location of the destination, you might not want to synchronize those. Also, you will want to exclude .ld.so which is a caching directory for the linker (low level stuff I don't understand well enough to explain).
Items in your ~/.var/app location are most likely used by flatpaks, like %APPDATA% in Windows, and you don't need every temp file from that. Chances are, if you can't tell what a file is, in that directory, you probably don't need it.
And that first one, pcsc12 sounds related to a smart card reader, and most likely that is one of the sockets. That is basically a special file that is used for communicating with other things during the current running OS. It's also something that doesn't make sense to synchronize.
Items in your ~/.var/app location are most likely used by flatpaks, like %APPDATA% in Windows, and you don't need every temp file from that. Chances are, if you can't tell what a file is, in that directory, you probably don't need it.
And that first one, pcsc12 sounds related to a smart card reader, and most likely that is one of the sockets. That is basically a special file that is used for communicating with other things during the current running OS. It's also something that doesn't make sense to synchronize.
