Filters Seem to Block Drive Access

Posts: 6 · Norman 8 Apr 2020, 01:43

When I add Exclusions, I receive this message:

"Cannot open directory "S:\System Volume Information".
ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED: Access is denied. [DirReaderPlus]"

Thoughts?

Posts: 2305 · Plerry 8 Apr 2020, 07:23

When you add Exclusions, there should be less files and folders to access, not more.
It is therefore very unlikely that the reported message/error is caused by adding an Exclusion.

Posts: 6 · Norman 10 Apr 2020, 17:17

Well Plerry,

I don't know what to say - when I remove the Exclusions the program works, but when I add exclusions - it gives me this error message.

Posts: 6 · Norman 10 Apr 2020, 17:18

To clarify - Volume S:\ is the destination drive where I'm Mirroring to.

Posts: 3658 · xCSxXenon 10 Apr 2020, 18:33

Can you screenshot your filter settings?

Posts: 6 · Norman 10 Apr 2020, 19:18

: FreeFileSync 10.22 Exclusions.png (266.37 KiB) Viewed 808 times

Attached. M:\ is the Source Drive, S:/ is the destination.

Posts: 3658 · xCSxXenon 10 Apr 2020, 19:40

Add this to the exclusions:
\System Volume Information\
\$Recycle.Bin\
\RECYCLE?\
*\desktop.ini
*\thumbs.db

Posts: 6 · Norman 10 Apr 2020, 20:14

Thanks for helping.

This looked promising - when I added those lines, it started working perfectly combing the drives for changes.

However, it errored out because of insufficient space on the destination drive. When I inspected the details of what it was backing up it had not excluded the files from the first exclusion.

This problem of ignoring the first exclusion happens regardless of whether I put the lines that you added to either the beginning, or the end of lists of exclusions.

Is there something wrong with the Path? The part I blacked out includes two names and an "&". Are special characters allowed in the path? Or is it too long?

Posts: 3658 · xCSxXenon 10 Apr 2020, 20:25

Take out the drive letters and leave it as "\My Cloud Storage\OneDrive\xxxxxxx\Documents\"
Same with the temp picture folder
For the shared folder, I haven't used that and I'm not sure it is supported. If you can format it as the other two lines, it may work as well

Posts: 6 · Norman 10 Apr 2020, 20:37

Perfect!

Thank you.

It'll take a couple of hours to complete, so if it doesn't complete successfully, I'll write you back - but so far, so good.

Cheers.

Posts: 3658 · xCSxXenon 10 Apr 2020, 21:06

Awesome!

Posts: 2305 · Plerry 14 Apr 2020, 07:47

Implicit in xCSxXenon's reaction, but for Norman's clarity:
Your initial Exclude Filter specification contained full-path specifications.
However, as clearly stated at the bottom of the Filter Settings window:
"Enter file path relative to their corresponding folder pair"
This means: relative the left and right base folder pair.