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[PoBear]

Hi
I'm new to using FFS.

I'm trying to mirror a disk with a large number of directories, the limitation is that the disk is in use for significant portions of the day and I can only run FFS when it is not in use.

So, I'm trying to add groups of directories to limit run time and to build the backup to the point where everything is mirrored.

I'd like to do something like x:\a*.* as a selector and then add x:\b*.*, etc., but I am getting an error message when I do this "cannot write file x:\a*.*\sync_ffs.lock"

Is there any way around this?

Many thanks

[xCSxXenon]

The lock file has nothing to do with filters. What is x:\? FFS seems to lack the permissions required to write to that location

[PoBear]

Thanks for you reply

The two disks are local to the machine that FFS is running on and the logged in user has full access to both the disks and the files on them.

From the full error message FFS is trying to create a file called sync_ffs.lock in a directory called a*.* which is not a valid directory name on Windows 10.

[xCSxXenon]

Your locations are typed wrong. You need to set the location as X:\ and change the include filter to a* and b*

[PoBear]

Brilliant. That's working. Many thanks for your help.

[xCSxXenon]

Of course!