FFS keeps restoring deleted files and folders

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conradhall

Greetings,
FFS keeps restoring files and folders that have been moved and renamed. FFS keeps the new names and locations while restoring the old files with the old names and old locations.

Yes, I have looked for the sync.ffs_db file. I have deleted those files. And FFS keeps doing the same thing.

I am running the Donatione edition on Win 11.
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xCSxXenon

What file system format(s) are you working with?
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conradhall

NTFS

Thank you for reaching out.

I am unclear just what was wrong, but I have found a partial remedy. I uninstalled FFS completely and removed all the batch files. I downloaded the Supporter Edition again and reinstalled it. I then walked through the recreation of each batch job.

The remaining difficulty is that an update seems to be failing.

The jobs run in this order:
mirror-D-drive-backup-to-G Drive
mirror-GDrive-grants-sponsors-partners-to-shared
update-shared-grants-sponsors-partners-to-GDrive

I have someone helping me with writing grants so they use a Shared Drive. They have recently added several folders and files to the Shared Grants-Sponsors-Partners Drive. The update batch job is failing to propagate those changes to the main GDrive.

FFS seems to be doing everything else correctly at this point. Any suggestions for how to get the update batch job to function correctly?

Thank you.