In the folders to backup, this customer has 1 folder we would like to exclude.Įven if we could use checkboxes for folders, if the customer adds new (root) folders they would also be excluded because they are not manually checked.Īn option to use absolute paths in the Exclusion filter would be extremely helpful (!)Ĭurrently I can add all the folders, except for the one we want to exclude.īut if another folders would be added to the root, it would also get excluded without us knowing about it. Therefore we cannot select individual folders (checkbox) but have to manually add all folder paths. We are a VCSP and use VAC to manage the Agent. I'm not really a programmer, but thinking in terms of scripts I would simply add a line "now that all that is done go and get just these if they happen to be there".I have a customer, who has 1 folder I want to exclude. I think I'm going to do what I did yesterday from now on and manually check for PSTs, the dynamic nature of the AppData folder makes individual path exclusions impractical. Fortunately Macs need the inverse of what I have setup to exclude specifically the Microsoft directory in their data folder and it works beautifully.
The reason why the folder is not created is because the filter expression, PORTABLESSomeProgramcacheV3groups, excludes the 'groups' folder as well.
#FREEFILESYNC EXCLUDE FOLDER MAC#
I have a Mac version of the filter also that is setup accordingly. FreeFileSync treats files and folders separately. I use this to migrate people from one machine to another at work, and to migrate users who've left the company to archives, this particular issue is the only sticking point I've had using this program and it rarely matters since Microsoft quite a while back realized it was stupid to put such important files in a hidden path. I didn't grasp what was meant by folder pair in this instance, but it makes perfect sense now and I'm ashamed for not getting it the first time around, that should have been obvious to me. Once I grasp it I tend to pass up my peers, I'm a conceptual / visual guy. I have a bit of a handicap when it comes to processing new information, especially verbally but sometimes written when I'm not in the "right frame". I must apologize, I'm a little slow on the uptake when I'm dealing with something new to me, not syncing in general, but this particular program which I really like.
Thank you Plerry, you put it in a way that I understand. Note that the global filters are defined via Synchronization Settings (F7) or the funnel-icon mid above the left- and right location columns in the GUI, and the local filters via the funnel-icons in between each of the folder pairs. Your global include filter should be "*" and your global exclude filter be anything you need, but does not exclude \Appdata\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\*.pst in whole or in part. Now all *.pst-files in \Appdata\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\ (or deeper) will be included in said second pair and not excluded via the (local) exclude filter. Now all of Appdata will be excluded from that first pair.įor the second pair, you use a local include filter of (just) "\Appdata\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\*.pst" and exclude filter that is empty. It is about using two (here: identical) left-right location pairs, equal to your present location pair.įor the first pair, you use a local include filter of simply "*" and exclude filter of "\Appdata".
#FREEFILESYNC EXCLUDE FOLDER MANUAL#
They (=files and directories) have to match at least one entry in the include list and none of the entries in the exclude listġ) If your include filter has a first line of "*", having any more lines is useless: everything is already included.Ģ) By adding "\Appdata" to your exclude filter, everything inside \Appdata is excluded.ģ) And be aware: all filter definitions are relative to the root of respective left- and right-locations in the folder pair.Īpparently you also do not grasp the 2nd example in the User Manual on include/exclude filtering.
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