Files are missing/not found?

[Caine123]

i copied my whole PLUGINS folder manually, then i had to cancel the copy process cause i went away. later i copied again without overwriting with win10.
then i started FFS and look, files are missing, why are files missing and FFS not finding them?



i also did a test with NOT excluding anything

[Gianni1962]

Some files and folders are excluded by the default exclude filter:

\System Volume Information\
\$Recycle.Bin\
\RECYCLER\
\RECYCLED\
*\desktop.ini
*\thumbs.db

[Zenju]

There's a FAQ for that: https://freefilesync.org/faq.php#explorer-mismatch

[Caine123]

thanks but this is a weird case, please check both pics! as you should have seen i didnt exclude anything + check this plz.

the folder is still missing in the preferences window



opening the folder on F:\ and the backup created on H:\ you CLEARLY see the files are there?! how can this be?

[Zenju]

This looks like being caused by folder permissions. Windows Explorer simply won't count items contained in folders it doesn't have access to. FreeFileSync OTOH should report an error in this case, but from the screenshot it looks like it has done its job properly.

[Caine123]

This looks like being caused by folder permissions. Windows Explorer simply won't count items contained in folders it doesn't have access to. FreeFileSync OTOH should report an error in this case, but from the screenshot it looks like it has done its job properly.

thanks even i can access those folders? cause i created those. can i still adjust FFS so it directly copies like the original folders? so i get the same amount shown?

[Zenju]

thanks even i can access those folders? cause i created those.

Things are not so simple when it comes to permissions. The question is: What rights did the Explorer process have?

can i still adjust FFS so it directly copies like the original folders? so i get the same amount shown?

Didn't FFS already copy all files? Seems to be the case from your screenshots.

[Caine123]

thanks even i can access those folders? cause i created those.

Things are not so simple when it comes to permissions. The question is: What rights did the Explorer process have?

can i still adjust FFS so it directly copies like the original folders? so i get the same amount shown?

Didn't FFS already copy all files? Seems to be the case from your screenshots.

thanks, yes it did but without investigation (or with folders which have 500 subfolders and more) it would have been annoying to check and find out, this was kinda luck ...