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Thanks for your reply. I have already been there and made some modifications, but now I noticed that I can/must load the global settings via the Default button for them to be active. I assumed that these settings are always loaded by "default" as the name of the button suggests. I guess that was my ...

No, I use different files depending on the source and target folders and sometimes I want to run them independently.

Are you trying to change the global filters for a single config or for all configs going forward? xCSxXenon, 12 Dec 2021, 15:59

I want to define a global filter for different subsets of sync pairs that I select for each run.
Currently I manually pushed down the global filter into every single sync pair config file.

> If I now add exactly "*\.*.*" to exclude, then the files are excluded as expected.
> But I have to do this manually every time, which is quite annoying.

After modifying the Exclude Filter and running the Compare and Sync, simply save the sync configuration under any suitable name as a *.ffs ...

I have defined several sync pairs and run some of them at the same time. So far everything has always worked. I'm syncing some directories with nextcloud and I notice that there are many files of the form ".<original filename>.<some genereated suffix>". Now I would like to exclude these globally ...

I sync some folders with my cell phone via mtp and have noticed the following strange behavior:
when I compare the folders on differences, it runs very fast. The first sync however takes ages (in the minutes range), all further ones are again very fast, at least as long as the phone stays connected ...

Latest download works :-) Thanks.

PS: I tried to search for new issues in the latest version but the search engine discarded my expressions (e.g. "10.6") because search critia were to common...

Hi,

synching a file in a folder used to work pretty well up to the current version 10.6.
The include filter contains the files' name (e.g. a.xlsx), the exclude filter ~*.xls* to exclude all temporary Excel files.

Now, running a comparison sometimes work, sometimes not. The results of subsequent ...