sync.ffs_lock: Not Responding

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rboetger

This just started today. I upgraded to 7.8 yesterday. Now everytime i try to compare I get Not Responding. I can'tkill the program. I have to reboot the laptop.
It goes through the Compare but when I try to sync it locks up. I can sync with another device.

I noticed it gets hung up at initializing the sync.ffs_lock
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volker01

Do you use ffs with copy locked files? Problems with VSS or AntiVirus Software?
I had this Problems with a Version of G DATA. It had blocked all IOs an the Harddisk, so ffs hangs also. Only a hard-reboot was helping. In my case - G DATA removed and all good.
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daloonik

I get the same error under Windows 10. If I try to delete the sync.ffs_lock file it immediately gets re-created by the program and the program is constantly in waiting for the file to be gone. So it's impossible to synchronize.
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Zenju

file it immediately gets re-created by the program
This means that there are additional FFS processes running, probably scheduled by Task Planer. A single FFS process won't re-create the sync.ffs_lock files during a sync session.