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mikexx

I've got 30,00 of these errors:

Cannot copy file
"C:\DumpStack.log" to
[Pathname]\[filename].ffs_tmp".
ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED: Access is denied. [CopyFileEx]

And as many files with the ending ffs_tmp in the versioning folders.

Just counted near 40,000 files ending in ffs_tmp in the backup directory too.

I'm using 11.0
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xCSxXenon

Is it the same file every time? Consider excluding it
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mikexx

No! 30,000 seperate files!!

The example I gave was bad one as being a short path and Windows 10 system file.

Unfortunately the log file only shows the first 25 of 28,931 items but I think most have a long path name.

BTW Your suggestion may take a while :-)
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mikexx

This is an example from a failed run:

16:31:59 Error Cannot copy file
"C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu18.04onWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState\rootfs\usr\share\terminfo\h\ha8686" to
"\\DNS-323-1\Backup\C-Backup\Users\Mike\AppData\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu18.04onWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState\rootfs\usr\share\terminfo\h\ha8686~4d35.ffs_tmp".
ERROR_FILE_EXISTS: The file exists. [CopyFileEx]

While it says it exists I can use a utility like filelocator pro to find and then delete these files. But the error will appear again on the next run. As do the dangling ffs_tmp files!

You may note this line is only 178 charcters long and so should not be affected by any path limit, not that one exists in Windows 10.
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xCSxXenon

What is hosting that network storage? Can you try a small set of those files to a local destination? It may be something with that
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JPringle

I have the same error for one file when syncing two HDD with FFS 11.1 under Windows 7

08:52:00 Erreur Impossible de déplacer le fichier
"F:\Linux_config\skypeforlinux\dictionaries\fr-FR-3-0~2466.ffs_tmp" vers
"F:\Linux_config\skypeforlinux\dictionaries\fr-FR-3-0.bdic".
ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS: Impossible de créer un fichier déjà existant. [MoveFileEx]

The file to sync is fr-FR-3-0.bdic. It seems that FFS create a temporary copy before renaming it after, and it can't.
fr-FR-3-0~2466.ffs_tmp is the temporary FFS file, it doesn't exist on my HDD

Only this file has this problem, all the rest is OK
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mikexx

What is hosting that network storage? Can you try a small set of those files to a local destination? It may be something with that xCSxXenon, 11 Sep 2020, 17:13
This is a local NAS storage device, A Dlink DNS323 running ALT-F. It uses SMB 1 and 2. I have something like 2TB of data (2 million files) stored on this NAS device without any issues.
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fr-FR-3-0~2466.ffs_tmp is the temporary FFS file, it doesn't exist on my HDD
JPringle, 14 Sep 2020, 09:58
I wonder if it has a wobbly when the file name includes a "~"?
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fr-FR-3-0~2466.ffs_tmp is the temporary FFS file, it doesn't exist on my HDD JPringle, 14 Sep 2020, 09:58
I wonder if it has a wobbly when the file name includes a "~"? mikexx, 15 Sep 2020, 15:22
Only Zenju can say that. As I wrote, this name seems to be a temporary name fixed by FFS
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xCSxXenon

Try running the sync with 'fail-safe' copying unchecked. If that doesn't work, we will want to look into permissions
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Zenju

[CopyFileEx]: Could be: viewtopic.php?t=7196
You can send me a Process Monitor trace and I can check: https://freefilesync.org/faq.php#trace
But first simplify your sync to a single file only.

[MoveFileEx]: Doesn't make any sense, unless the file "F:\Linux_config\skypeforlinux\dictionaries\fr-FR-3-0.bdic" somehow "appeared" *after* FreeFileSync comparison or the network driver of "F:\" is just buggy.
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[MoveFileEx]: Doesn't make any sense, unless the file "F:\Linux_config\skypeforlinux\dictionaries\fr-FR-3-0.bdic" somehow "appeared" *after* FreeFileSync comparison or the network driver of "F:\" is just buggy. Zenju, 25 Sep 2020, 17:26
Hi Zenju

F:\ is not a network driver for I sync two physical external HDD. F:\ is the destination

The file \Linux_config\skypeforlinux\dictionaries\fr-FR-3-0.bdic exists on both HDD. Here is a capture of F:\Linux_config\skypeforlinux\dictionaries\ before the sync :
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...but FFS doesn't see it when doing the compare (F is on the right) :
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JPringle

I have manually deleted the file \Linux_config\skypeforlinux\dictionaries\fr-FR-3-0.bdic on the drive F and tried a new comparison. Surprise, FFS shows two occurences of this file!
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Zenju

So G:\ is case-sensitive while F:\ is a case-insensitive file system.
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JPringle

Both G:\ and F:\ are USB HDD with NTFS partition, and I do the sync on a Windows 7 system, so I don't think there is a case-sensitive or non-sensitive problem
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JPringle

You were right Zenju, I checked on the original Linux station (HDD1 and HDD2, known as F:\ and G:\ on Windows, are two backup disks that I update remotely on a Windows station) and there are two directories with the same name, one in lower case and the other with an uppercase letter :-(
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So during the synchronization on the Windows computer, FFS sees twice the same name.

Thanks for the diagnosis.
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Zenju

[MoveFileEx]: Doesn't make any sense, unless the file "F:\Linux_config\skypeforlinux\dictionaries\fr-FR-3-0.bdic" somehow "appeared" *after* FreeFileSync comparison or the network driver of "F:\" is just buggy. Zenju, 25 Sep 2020, 17:26
Hi Zenju

F:\ is not a network driver for I sync two physical external HDD. F:\ is the destination

The file \Linux_config\skypeforlinux\dictionaries\fr-FR-3-0.bdic exists on both HDD. Here is a capture of F:\Linux_config\skypeforlinux\dictionaries\ before the sync :
SkypeForLinux.PNG

...but FFS doesn't see it when doing the compare (F is on the right) :
FFS_SkypeForLinux.PNG JPringle, 27 Sep 2020, 04:20
Could be a corrupted disk, fixable via Windows error checking: viewtopic.php?t=9776#p36079