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Set up four folder pairs. Works ok

You don't need to restart FFS, it's sufficient to press the compare button again after any external changes.Zenju

Thank you.

Is this the answer.

On rebooting this morning I started FreeFileSync and press Synchronize; it did i.e. it matched the left and right panels. I then did another change in Windows Explorer and pressed Synchronize again; no change. So shut down FreeFileSync then reopened. Synchronize now works.

So I ...

In order to find out how to achieve what I want in this thread:-

https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=666

I am setting up a simple mirroring to start with.

C:\Users\username\Pictures\ mirrored to D:\FreeFileSync\

If I have the above as my source and target the first time I run ...

Thank you.

I can see that filters would be the way to go but it looks to me as if I will have to create many filter rules to exclude all but the four folders I want.

Is it possible to create one exclude rule for everything in C:\Users\username plus four include rules for the four folders?

I want to help someone to backup, ideally, just the following (each of the four folders will have sub-folders)

C:\Users\username\My Documents\anotherfolder
C:\Users\username\My Music
C:\Users\username\My Pictures
C:\Users\usernam\eMy Videos

How do I setup FreeFileSync to backup these files to a ...