Hello
I am doing tests with this program to synchronize the users' Outlook mail on a NAS, but on some computers it is giving me problems because, despite the fact that in FreeFileSync I have the option to copy open files checked, Outlook sometimes jumps a message that it is blocked and cannot execute the task (send an email, receive, etc).
In other computers it does not happen. It happens in both Windows 7 and Windows 10
Any idea what to look at to fix it?
Problem with open files in FreeFileSync
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- Joined: 4 Dec 2020
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- Joined: 4 Dec 2020
I have continued testing and I know what happens.
The problem comes when the scheduled task that I have assigned to run FreeFileSync runs before the user has opened Outlook.
What happens then is that FreeFileSync does not create a VSS instance and therefore, when the user opens Outlook while FreeFileSync, it starts giving Outlook errors that another process is using the .PST file and cannot access it, since FreeFileSync has not created the VSS instance as it was not needed as Outlook is not running.
At the moment I have "solved" it by making Outlook run as soon as the computer starts up, so when the FreeFileSync task is activated it creates the VSS instance since Outlook is running.
The best solution would be if FreeFileSync could be configured to always create the VSS task, regardless of whether it is needed or not, but I have not seen a way in the menus, can it be done somehow?
The problem comes when the scheduled task that I have assigned to run FreeFileSync runs before the user has opened Outlook.
What happens then is that FreeFileSync does not create a VSS instance and therefore, when the user opens Outlook while FreeFileSync, it starts giving Outlook errors that another process is using the .PST file and cannot access it, since FreeFileSync has not created the VSS instance as it was not needed as Outlook is not running.
At the moment I have "solved" it by making Outlook run as soon as the computer starts up, so when the FreeFileSync task is activated it creates the VSS instance since Outlook is running.
The best solution would be if FreeFileSync could be configured to always create the VSS task, regardless of whether it is needed or not, but I have not seen a way in the menus, can it be done somehow?
