9.7 not seeing certain files on remote computer

[dcouchotvore]

I had high hopes for FreeFileSync because I'd almost always rather support an individual developer over a flock of anonymous shareholders, but a glitch has this ambition stymied.

I copied files from a Win 8.1 machine (REMOTE) to a Win 7 machine (LOCAL). FFS is installed on LOCAL. Initial tests with my "Stories" directory disclosed that it simply will not see 68 out of about 12,000 files on REMOTE -- until it goes to create them, at which time it complains that it can't create a file that already exists. It aborts after about half of them. On the next attempt, it does the same thing, so I am never able to complete a synchronization even though the contents of both directories are the same.

I've tried to identify anything that distinguishes those files from the others, but they are remarkably unremarkable. Same locations, same attributes, etc. as the others. Only two features are common to them: (1) they are all image files except for a single Corel Photopaint file, and (2) they all have non-alphanumeric characters in the path name. However, these are not definitive because there are hundreds of other files with the same features that it finds without problem. It is always the same 68 files. I've attached a screenshot of 47 of them in case anything stands out to you (no great secrets there). My even larger "development" directory has its own set of files that FFS won't see until it's too late.

On the plus side, I want to say that I like your linear independence analogy, though there is a sound argument that it's much more than just an analogy. Many, many years ago, I wrote a white paper on what I thought constituted good software, and one of those points was orthogonality. I wish I still had that paper. By those standards, Microsoft produces no good software.

[dcouchotvore]

PS: I also experienced behavior similar to this: viewtopic.php?t=4906. I wonder if there could be a connection.

[Zenju]

Explorer is able to see these files from the same user account? My guess is that permissions are set on the network share that exclude them from being listed.

> behavior similar
The linked topic is about two unrelated issues, but I assume you mean the first one.

[dcouchotvore]

Right you are! I didn't drill down that deep, ASSUMING Windows would do what you told it to. It annoys me that it chose to ignore certain files when I set up permissions at the top, but Windows annoys me almost daily. I also found some set to Read instead of Read/Write, which would have caused another problem. I guess a donation is in order.

Yes, I did mean the first issue, but it has not recurred.