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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
As an aside I don't know the reasoning why FreeFileSync places a file in each synced directory (on both devices being sync'd) and never pondered on it before (the files have never bothered me) but one reason may be that it somehow facilitates its avoiding copy/writes when syncing moved files???
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It is precisely for detecting moved files. By default, a "Mirror Sync" doesn't create
sync.ffs_db. It's only created when you do a "Two-way Sync" or explicitly enable the "Detect moved files" option when "Versioning".