Hello,
I am a longtime user of FFS, I love the tool and I have been supporting it for a little while now. And for as long as I have used it, I have encountered this small issue which perhaps one of you would know how to fix.
I sync photos on my network from my Windows 10 machine to a USB drive connected to my Mac OSX (the exact versions do not matter very much, because as mentioned, this issue has been happening for years). FFS has no problem with the sync except that when it creates folders on the Mac, they are always locked by default and I cannot sync anything in them. If I do, I receive an access denied error in FFS. So I need to go to my Mac, get info on that folder, and unlock it manually. I sync a few new folders per month, so it is not a huge issue. Still, I would like to finally avoid doing this every time.
Thank you in advance for any help!
Victor
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Any ideas on this point?
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Are you sharing the full USB drive from the Mac or just a folder inside it? If you are sharing the full drive, try using a folder on the drive instead of the drive itself.
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You're running the synchronization from a Windows PC, target is a macOS-hosted network share.
Some (?) folders have the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY flag set, perhaps because they contain a Desktop.ini file: https://web.archive.org/web/20170118102335/https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030930-00/?p=42353
On the macOS side this is misinterpreted as UF_IMMUTABLE, a.k.a. "locked" folder.
Some (?) folders have the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY flag set, perhaps because they contain a Desktop.ini file: https://web.archive.org/web/20170118102335/https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030930-00/?p=42353
On the macOS side this is misinterpreted as UF_IMMUTABLE, a.k.a. "locked" folder.
