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@Plerry Folder1 is not a root folder, it is just one of the thousands of deeply nested folders in the drive that I am syncing, that's why this approach doesn't help. So my workaround has been adding additional folder pairs, as @Zenju mentioned, though I described why I dislike that solution and ...

With FreeFileSync version 11.24 adding the feature
Enhanced filter syntax to match files only (append ':')
I hoped that a solution for this was finally added, but it doesn't help.

If I add \Folder1\*: to the exclude list, files in the subfolders are still excluded. It does include subfolders, but ...

Reading the MFT makes a massive difference. I moved from WinDirStat to WizTree for that reason: What used to take minutes now takes seconds; it's near instant, really.

I know that FreeFileSync is a cross-platform program and this enhancement would be mostly useful for Windows users, but it makes ...

I think you misunderstand me, or maybe I am misunderstanding what you are saying. The " All subdirectories of the base directories " example, i.e. the filter phrase " *\ " allows me to exclude its subfolders, without excluding files directly in the folder. But what I want to do is the opposite, i.e ...

To put it differently, the footnote in the manual says:

A filter phrase is compared against both file and directory paths. If you want to consider directories only, you can give a hint by appending a path separator.

So it is possible discriminate directories vs. files, what I propose is the ...

Quite often, I want to exclude files in a folder, but not its subfolders. E.g. say I want to exclude Folder1 that is in the base directory:

Folder1\
....Folder2\
........File1.ext
........File2.ext
....Folder3\
........File3.ext
........File4
....Folder4\
....File5.ext
....File6.ext
....File7.ext ...