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Thank you for clarifying.

Well, the benefit is clear to me when I think about it. Take my example above.
Just like ex cluding *\ syncs only the contents of the desktop and excludes ALL the subfolders and their contents,
in cluding *\ should then include ALL the subfolders and their contents too ...

So perhaps Zenju trapped that special case, as it would effectively render the sync useless as everything would then be excluded.

Which would be ok, since a layman like I am would probably assume exactly that. Since \*\ works exactly like that, I would use that in the manual. But if it's the case ...

Thanks alot! It worked indeed. Those questions I had till now are solved. Only now a new one came up. Nothing that I need to solve, but rather only would like to know why that is.

You said: "In *\*.lnk , the first * is allowed to be empty, so *\ can/will also refer to the base directory."

It ...

@plerry

I have managed to do it for one folder subdirectory, but it wouldn't work the way I would like it to work. Let me explain with an easier example, because I think I can't follow you. Let's take the desktop for example. What I want is to sync everything on my desktop except the shortcuts ...

I will try to answer only to the quoted question:

Include: *.reg
Exclude: blank / empty


Wow, that one was easy. I feel so dumb now. Till now i never understood the idea behind the include filter really. I thought it is to include exceptions of the exclude filter in a way that i never could ...

Hello everyone,

i got a problem that sounds simple but i don't know how to solve it. I'm using v8.1 and wanna stay with it.

Let's say I want to sync all folders and files from c:\desktop except .lnk files (shortcuts). If i exlude .lnk in the filterlist, every .lnk file in all subfolders get also ...

Hello everyone,

it's been a while since the last reply on this topic but i have to agree with Giangi here. I've used v8.1 for a long time and was thinking it's time to upgrade to v9.4. I realized that something seemed to be odd and in the end I found that it was the Name column missing. Since ...