Sync Updates Fail with Cannot create file when that file already exists

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tommy61

How do I fix this?
Cannot rename "X:\8886\iPhone 12 Pro Max-8886 Camera Roll Backup\20220805_123620-82a3.ffs_tmp" to "20220805_123620.mp4"

Out of 12K pictures, I have 65 of these errors all of a sudden
I am backing up from a NAS folder to a local HDD for off-site archiving.
In the settings, I am using update and tried "Database enabled or disabled" with no change.
I even deleted the local HDD backup folder and tried to have it copy everything over, and I still get this issue.

THoughts on this
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tommy61

Is there a way to "Force" overwrite when the file exists?
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xCSxXenon

There should be an error message or code associated with those errors, what is it?
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tommy61

Hi xCSxXenon :, I can't locate a log or history. I don't recall seeing an error code,, I spent 2 hours last night deleting all the dups it complained about and re-ran the sync job, and it worked.
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tommy61

Can you tell me where a log file might be stored? [MoveFileEx] maybe?
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tommy61

C:\Users\ME\AppData\Roaming\FreeFileSync Last log was 10-5-25 :(