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You can use an include filter "*\*" to only process files/folders located in sub-folders. See the help file on "exclude items" Zenju thanks for your post. That syntax you suggest is not listed in my help file. I'm using Version 5, Jan, 2012 build. The exclude items section has n...

D is my data drive, G is my backup drive. The mirror comparison specs are D: --> G: I want all folders of G: and their subfolders considered, but would like to exclude ALL files in the root of G:. My reason for wanting to do this is that I place backup images in the root of G: and don't want them er...

Aha! Exclude filters I have worked with but not Include filters. You must be one of the authors of this wonderful software since you have all the answers. I changed my include filter from * to *\ to include only folders. Then I added * to the exclude filter to exclude everything. I didn't realize th...

That's an amazingly quick response! I did not know there was an option to "show compressed view". That was also amazing! Thank you for pointing it out to me. I have another question while I have your attention. If you prefer I make this a separate thread I'd be happy to do that. I almost d...

Excuse me but if you're still following this, what's the "overview grid". I did a full compare of a huge directory with many hundreds of subdirectories and thousands of lines in the compare display on main grid. I'd like to exclude directories by filter but it takes forever to scroll the l...

I have directory with folders for 50 different web sites. As: D:\HTML\WEB1 D:\HTML\WEB3 D:\HTML\WEB3 ..... I backup say WEB1, WEB6,WEB11, WEB16 daily. So, I have a batch job that backs up these 4 directories. Then I have a second batch job that backs up all of D:\HTML and I want to exclude the direc...