Versioning folder structure

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Tennant

I'm a new user of FreeFileSync (having given up trying to keep Windows 11 File History working reliably). I use it to back up a number of drivers and folders on my PC to a NAS drive. I want to use the versioning feature so that I have a history of previous versions of documents in case I need to revert back to an old version, so have it set to a separate user-defined folder on the NAS and to keep up to 2 copies for 30 days.

The help file says
Set deletion handling to Versioning and naming convention to Time stamp [File]. FreeFileSync moves deleted files into the specified folder and appends a time stamp to each file name. The folder structure is preserved, making it easy to access older versions via a file browser.
which I took to mean that the files that are moved into my user-defined versioning folder would be placed in a similiar folder path to where the original is located. However that is n't happening, all the files that have been changed are just being placed in the root of the user-defined folder with the appropriate time stamp attached.

Do I have something configured incorrectly, or have I misunderstand what the help guide meant?