Error_Access_Denied message

Posts: 3 · GaryJay 14 Oct 2022, 21:33

I sync files to 3 different hard drives for the purpose of offsite backup. They all are just normal hard drives that I plug into SATA on my computer to mount them. TWO of the drives synchronize perfectly, but one does not. It gives me the following error. Is there some way to fix this? I click ignore and the sync continues and mirrors the files just fine, but I'd like to avoid getting this error message. Thanks! Gary

1:57:59 PM Error Cannot open directory "I:\System Volume Information".
ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED: Access is denied. [DirReaderPlus]

Posts: 4867 · xCSxXenon 16 Oct 2022, 15:05

When that drive is plugged in, open systempropertiesprotection.exe and find it in the list of drives. Select "configure", turn off restore points and delete any that already exist.

Posts: 3 · GaryJay 7 Dec 2022, 22:20

xCSxXenon It is the internal hard drive "I" that it seems to have problems reading (the source drive), not the plugged in External destination drive "S". I did as you suggested to both drive I and S. Neither one had protection turned on and I did click on the Delete past restores. But I still get the same error message when trying to mirror drive I to drive S

Posts: 4867 · xCSxXenon 7 Dec 2022, 22:53

That should remove that directory...
Just filter it out in FFS settings, it's in the default exclusions for a reason