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Is there a way to restrict "all the files" to just the base directory level other than the exclude \*\ that I used in my original post? I thought that \*: might do that, as the manual says the filter for a single file is \file.txt, but clearly things don't work that way.

Is there a way to have one ...

Yes, I've read that manual page a few times, but, in my mind, it doesn't quite work that way in practice. For example, in a couple of spots in my original post, "*" and "*:" produced the same results (I presume because of implicit subdirectory creation). While my mystification may be just a case of ...

Given a directory structure on my Windows system:

...\temp\file1.txt
...\temp\file2.txt
...\temp\aaa
...\temp\bbb
...\temp\ccc
...\temp\ddd

with files in all four subdirectories, I want to synchronize all the files in temp and a subset of temp's subdirectories and files with another directory, say ...