Directory does not exist (when it does!)

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gavinmetzler

From my log:



FreeFileSync - Batch execution - 12/01/2012
-------------------------------------------

Synchronization completed with errors!

[12:45:00 AM] Start

[12:45:27 AM] Error: Directory does not exist:
"\\Linky\Volume_1\Backups\Sammy_Home\"
You can ignore this error to consider the directory as empty.
[12:45:51 AM] Info: Processing folder pair:
Left: "D:\Home\"
Right: "\\Linky\Volume_1\Backups\Sammy_Home\"
[12:45:51 AM] Info: Creating folder "\\Linky\Volume_1\Backups\Sammy_Home\andrew.m"
[12:45:51 AM] Info: Creating file "\\Linky\Volume_1\Backups\Sammy_Home\andrew.m\Bullseye referal Form.lnk"
[12:45:52 AM] Error: Error moving file:
"\\Linky\Volume_1\Backups\Sammy_Home\andrew.m\Bullseye referal Form.lnk.ffs_tmp" ->
"\\Linky\Volume_1\Backups\Sammy_Home\andrew.m\Bullseye referal Form.lnk"
Windows Error Code 183: Cannot create a file when that file already exists.


(Then I get thousands of these same errors)

The directory does exist, and this doesn't happen every time (this job
runs every night). The remote \\Linky\ fileshare is a D-Link ShareCentre NAS.
I'm using FFS 4.6. The local machine is a Windows 2003 Server.

Any ideas why this is happening? I'm going to try mapping the share to a
windows drive letter and see if that helps.

Regards
Gavin
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Zenju

FFS automatically tries to logon to network shares before checking directory
existence. Maybe this is somehow related to a small delay after logon and
before directory is reported as existing by the os.
Does the same problem happen if you sync via gui and/or if you press "retry" a
couple of times?
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gavinmetzler

It has never happened using the GUI, but I don't use the GUI often.
It has worked fine since I changed to using mapped drives, but its only been a
few days, so I will let you know if it happens again.
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Zenju

Mapped drives are yet another layer on top of UNC paths, so generally I would
expect latter to create less problems. Anyway, if you face this problem again,
try to find out what triggers it and ideally how it can be reproduced.
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smurf1978

I have a similar issue where Freefilesync doesn't report files and folders to
be missing on either side, for example it reports 2 missing folders on the
right side, when I can check both folders and plainly see that there is 3
folders missing etc.

This has now caused me to stop using Freefilesync, I am very dependent on this
software to sync both sides 100% correctly, as other people depend on me
synching my files correctly.

I'm using 5.0.
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Zenju

> I have a similar issue where Freefilesync
This seems to be a different problem than the one by the original poster.
Please open a new bug tracker item, and let's analyze it.