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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 woul...

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 on...

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 suc...

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 i...

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 ability ...

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 .....