Access locked

[Blackforrestman]

Sorry, that I do not write in a correct Oxford-English - however I will try to translate the error messages of my German installation of FreeFileSync in English.

I use my installation of FreeFileSync on a notebook with Windows 10 to synchronize files on my notebook with a MyCloudMirror-Server of Western Digital in the local network. I configured two batch jobs for the synchronization started by the windows task scheduler

- first one at system start
- second one daily at 12:00 a. m.

Monitoring the results of the synchronization, I realized that a lot of files in the affected folders are not synchronized. To observe the details of the synchronizing, I started the same job in the GUI of FreeFileSync. There I get the message, that FreeFileSync waits because the synchronized folder is locked by myself (= by user Blackforrestman)

For a sneaking suspicion I took a look in Windows task manager, where I saw several daemons/background processes of FreeFileSync. Finishing this processes in the task manager allows me to start the synchronization in the FreeFileSync GUI.

As far as I see, a hanging batchjob (i. e. there is no network connection) constrains a later starting batchjob from access to the concerned folders.

Any idea to solve this problem, i. e. that folders are only synchronized if there is a network connection or ...

[Gianni1962]

Hi Blackforrestman,

make sure your batch job has set "Handle errors" to Ignore.