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After a few weeks this continued to happen, IDrive would not forget these files.

So, I created a couple of files with the same names and ran a backup. IDrive happily accepted these files and backed them up. I was then able to remove them from the folder and IDrive has stopped complaining during subsequent backups.

Hope this workaround helps anyone with similar issues!

JohnM wrote:

Another time I deleted the directory containing the ghost files that IDrive complained about and that also took care of the "failures" as well.

I wonder then, if rename the directory - backup - rename it back, would also fool IDrive.

This would be a less arduous way to cope with a large number of ghost files in a busy directory.

Did you maybe have them specifically selected in the "what to back up" settings, versus just checking the box for the entire directory? I've seen this this same failure reported more than once in a case where I had checked the box to select a directory, and then unchecked the boxes for certain files in the directory that I didn't want backed up. In that case, rather than remembering to back up "everything except the unchecked files" it remembers "all the checked files", which means that a) it doesn't back up any additional files added into the directory later, and b) it throws a "file does not exist" warning if any of the checked files are later deleted.

I know that the proper way to do this would be to exclude the unwanted files in the global exclude list, but that's a bit more inconvenient to set up, and I may actually want to back up certain files like this locally, but not online. IMHO, having exclude file lists per-backup or, better, being able to say "exclude this file/folder" within a selected folder in the select files/folders tree for a backup set, would be a good feature request.