Cannot open file "C:\WINDOWS\system32\SyncMultimediaSettings.ffs_batch

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deonholt

Hi there.

Windows 11 with most recent updates

I tried today to setup a schedule to mirror sync my multimedia folder with my NAS.

No matter how I name the setting files, I get this error. Kindly please advise what I am doing wrong? I browse to the FreeFileSync.exe file in Program Files. I don't understand why it looks for something in Windows' System32 folder.

I am sure it is just something small. I am doing everything according to this tutorial:
https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=schedule-batch-jobs

Please advise. Thanks.
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xCSxXenon

You need to edit the command being ran to use the full path to your ffs_batch file
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deonholt

Thank you so very much. For hours I couldn't figure it out. Thanks again.