Sync gets stuck right before completion

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FFSS

Sync gets stuck right before completion for a while, sometimes several minutes, then completes normally.

Impossible to stop.

Mode: mirroring from internal SATA HDD to external USB2.0 HDD (FreeFileSync is installed on SATA system-SSD)

OS: Windows 7 home premium
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Zenju

This is problably the recycle bin accesss (done as a batch operation at the end rather than for each individual file that is recycled, which would take 10x as long).
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FFSS

Thanks, good hint. Changing the setting "Delete files" from "Recycle bin" to "Permanent" fixed the problem.
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Zenju

Emptying the recycle bin most likely would also have fixed the perf issue. On slow HDDs the recycle bin access time grows linear with the number of items in it, because apparently Windows has to count them first.