Cannot move file: Access is denied

Posts: 2 · brandoaz 22 Nov 2013, 19:07

good day: I have used freefilesync for a period of time.
I recently converted an administrative level account on a windows vista home edition machine to a "standard user" and now when i run the FFS task i get this error when trying to sync:

Cannot move file 'E:\Toshiba Laptop Backup\Desktop\rkill.scr' to 'E:\Toshiba Laptop Backup\FFS 2013-11-20 160116\Desktop\rkill.scr'.

Windows Error Code 5: Access is denied.

if i ignore it moves on to the next file. How do i resolve this issue?

Posts: 141 · srjones67 22 Nov 2013, 19:16

It's windows permissions.

Posts: 2 · brandoaz 24 Nov 2013, 17:40

how do i change those permissions so that FFS will run on a standard user account ( the account used to be an administrator and i changed it to standard user)?

Posts: 5 · maphew 4 Dec 2013, 16:47

Please consider adding an option to flag the upstream source as read only, and to not attempt to create a lock file there.

Currently whenever I'm synchronizing from a read-only network source I need to say "ignore all errors" in order to continue. However I don't want to ignore all errors, only errors about creating the lock file in the source directory.

thanks.