Running ffs with System-Account ...

[volker01]

Hello Zenju,
ffs running under system-account (Windows-Taskplaner - non interactive with user "system") i get errors cannot copy many files. (cannot read file, The file is locked by another process). Copy locked files in ffs is activated. It seems that copy with vss ist not active when running ffs with the system-account?

Testet with ffs 7.8, Win 8.1

[Zenju]

This depends, what (full) error message are you seeing in particular?

[volker01]

HEllo Zenju, here Examples:

[02:31:59] Fehler: Die Datei "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\Content.Word\~WRS{B123451D-51C7-4557-95A6-914BFE720183}.tmp" kann nicht gelesen werden.
Die Datei wird von einem anderen Prozess gesperrt:
Microsoft Outlook, "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\OUTLOOK.EXE"

[02:35:42] Fehler: Die Datei "C:\Users\user\Documents\Outlook-Dateien\mypst - Outlook2.pst" kann nicht gelesen werden.
Die Datei wird von einem anderen Prozess gesperrt:
Microsoft Outlook, "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\OUTLOOK.EXE"

[02:35:31] Fehler: Die Datei "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\sk667fam.default\parent.lock" kann nicht gelesen werden.
Die Datei wird von einem anderen Prozess gesperrt:
Firefox, "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"

[10:44:24] Fehler: Die Datei "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Current Session" kann nicht gelesen werden.
Die Datei wird von einem anderen Prozess gesperrt:
Google Chrome, "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"

10:44:22] Fehler: Die Datei "C:\jAnrufmonitor\lib\cache\classloader.cache.lck" kann nicht gelesen werden.
Die Datei wird von einem anderen Prozess gesperrt:
Java(TM) Platform SE binary, "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_66\bin\javaw.exe"

[Zenju]

Indeed VSS is not active for FreeFileSync! The reason is that GlobalSettings.xml is saved per-user in:

%appdata%\FreeFileSync

When running under the SYSTEM account it is saved in:

C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming\FreeFileSync

[volker01]

Hello Zenju,

are you planning to change that? I think it's a good solution start ffs with the system account, because there are no problems with access to files and folders, independently of the individual user-accounts.
This also applies to CopyFilePermissions and so on. Is it a solution to write the globalsettings.xml to %systemdrive%\programdata\FreeFileSync ... ?

[Zenju]

The strangely long path is inded the SYSTEM account's "appdata", it is not defined by FreeFileSync but by Windows.

[volker01]

Ok, my workaround is to copy a edited globalsettings.xml to system account's appdata bevor starting ffs in my backup.bat.
But i think this should be better done by ffs. Maybe with aditional commandline switches for the ffs_batch? Or better in the gui "Save as batch job"? Two settings are relevant: CopyLockedFiles and CopyFilePermissions.

Who does this work in Windows XP?
In Windows XP i can't find a globalsettings.xml in C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\*.*

[Zenju]

In fact FFS has switches to manually choose a GlobalSettings.xml file. I should add this to:
https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=command-line

[volker01]

Ok, that's it.
thank you Zenju