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The first rule of your Include Filter is * .
Therefore everything is included, except for items that are explicitly Excluded per the Exclude Filter rules. The next two rules of your Include Filter are therefore obsolete.
And, as xCSxXenon wrote, your Exclude rule *.mkv should be removed, otherwise ...

I will have to make a separate session/sync just for that folder alone

The first rule of your Include Filter is * .
Therefore everything is included, except for items that are explicitly Excluded per the Exclude Filter rules. The next two rules of your Include Filter are therefore obsolete.


I wasn't so sure of this myself, so I didn't mention it. I was pretty ...

Thank you for the answers so far, but let me rephrase a little to be more clear.
I have a bunch of folders to sync and they all have huge mkv files.
But of all, only from "General knowledge" I'm interested in saving EVERYTHING there, including mkv files
I was hoping that this would work like in ...

Hello all,
Let me show you my current filter setup :

Include Filter:
*
General knowledge\*
General knowledge\*.mkv

Exclude Filter:
*.iso
*.zip
*.mkv


I want to "force" the inclusion of mkv files that are located in the folder "General knowledge".
I googled but I couldn't find any solution, is ...

for me it's also working fine, I just reinstall it.
Thank you so much for the fast response !!!!!!
Cheers !!

Yes,
the shortcut was made correct.
"/home/test/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync" %F
The file FreeFileSync is marked as executabile. But if I try to start it from Nemo File Browser for example, nothing happens. If I start Terminal in that location, from there it starts.
And also if I select "Launch in ...

forgot to mention, the installation was made without sudo, in only in my home folder

99% perfection. I use FFS v.11.7.
After installation the shortcuts from Desktop and Menu do not work. Nothing happens.
It starts only from Terminal. ($ FreeFileSync)
I have tried this on a clean virtual machine with the same results.
Before this, in v.11.5 shortcuts were working fine.

Linux Mint 20 ...

finallllllllllly !!!!!!!
Thank you ! :)
after this is working :
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gcc-4.9 g++-4.9
but only this has the latest version
FreeFileSync_8.1_Debian_8.4_64-bit.tar.gz
Thank ...

I only now how to start from terminal .sh and .deb

Thank you for the reply,
I have tried but it's the same from the archive
if you could describe how to run it from terminal, to find out why it's not running, it would help me so much.
I am still new at Linux commands.
Thank you again !

should...but it's not doing enything :(
I don't understand why ... I have extracted the FreeFileSync_7.9_Debian_8.3_64-bit.tar.gz
and nothing happens when I try to run FreeFileSync or RealTimeSync
and I don't know how to start them from terminal to find out why.

I have tried whith this :

sudo add ...

Hello
it there a .deb with 7.9 for Linux Mint 17.3 ?
Is it going to be ?
Thank you !