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@All
I always thought that FFS is actually a great tool for hobby users and not a tool for professional synchronization of large amounts of data, which can, for example, run in the background and in which the file structure does not really matter (because it is mirrored 1:1 anyway).

@Plerry
There ...

Ok,

The Comparison FFS executes is universal for all sync variants (Two-way, Mirror, Update and Custom) ...

... and does not fulfill the vision to have excellent performance for this common use case.

What a pity!

But fortunately Total Commander https://www.ghisler.com/index.htm can also ...

@Plerry
I don't agree with you at all.

I agree with the visions mentioned here: https://freefilesync.org/vision.php

This means that its main purpose is to speed up backup operations by examining the differences between source and target folders, and then only copy what is really needed rather ...

I think the expectation you have, which I also had, is that running a comparison would see that the "Tools" subfolder is the only folder that doesn't "exist only on the right side". This, ideally, would mean only the "Tools" subfolder on the right side gets scanned! I could have sworn this was how ...

@xCSxXenon
Yes it's quite old on this machine...

And to be honest I do not trust what you recommend to me 😉, because I don't think you understood my problem properly (maybe I haven't explained it properly either).

The configuration shown above does not prevent FFS from searching (comparing ...

@xCSxXenon

You mean something like this?

@xCSxXenon
How can I setup such a configuration?
Can you give me an example?

@xCSxXenon
The only way FFS can know if an item exists only on the right side is to scan everything on the right side during the comparison.

I don't think so:
For this use case FFS shall not know what is there everything is on the right side but only is there something corresponding to the left ...

@Plerry
Thanks again für quick reply!

The point is: I want to save time and do not want FFS to compare some huge amount of folders and files which are out of scope on the "right side" located on a slow hard drive connected to my Fritz Box.

And "out of scope" can be clearly defined as follows:
Any ...

@Plerry
Thank you very much for your quick reply, but I think that this does not solve my "problem".

I do not want to adapt filters each time the structure of folders (or the scope I want to synchronize) on " the left " side changes.
I simply want to tell FFS in general:
- please synchronize only ...

Hi,

when I search for "synchronize existing folders only" in this forum I do not find a lot, that's why I am raising this question here:

How can I setup FFS in a way, that only existing folders (written in bold) are compared and synchronized?
To save time, FFS should not search for files in the ...

Ok, I see know. I didn't get the details before.
But which function has the small button next to the filter button with the arrow to the right?
For users who don't have a mouse with a right button?
;-)

Ok, I think this topic can be closed now.
Thank you!

The simplest way would be to have ...

a right click menu for the Filter (F7) button to temporarily disable all filters specified in the Exclude list of the Filter (F7). There is already option "Clear filter" and I ask to have also option "Clear filter temporarily". That's all.

But I know, there ...

Hi all,
I am looking for an option to temporarily disable all or only specific lines of the entries in the Exclude list of the Filter (F7).
Is there already any possibility to do that?

If not, can it be implemented?
For example by using a special character to comment out all (using block comment ...