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@Plerry, thanks for the very clear explanation. Any idea why my exclusion filters did not work? For the Quicken task, I set the exclusion filter to *.QBW and for the Quickbooks task, I set it to *.QDF. That made no difference, I still got the same error.

I'll leave the task as is, where it mirrors ...

@Zenju, what exactly does "set up exclude filters so that each updated file is considered by only one base folder” mean? For the Quicken task, I set the exclusion filter to *.QBW and for the Quickbooks task, I set it to *.QDF. That made no difference, I still got the same error.

I finally just ...

Thanks for the replies. I did try exclusion filters, as mentioned, but they had no effect. I just ignored the warning message and it mirrored the files just fine. I find it strange that such a warning should arise, as it seems clear to me that I'm trying to mirror/update source files with target ...

I’m trying to copy my Quicken data file and my QuickBooks data file to my DropBox folder as follows:

D:\WPDOCS\Quicken\ (Filter: *.QDF) -> C:\Users\Larry\Dropbox
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Intuit\QuickBooks\Company Files (Filter: *.QBW) -> C:\Users\Larry\Dropbox

… but keep getting the following ...