Exclusions during Comparison only

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matteeffs

I'm trying to exclude an extremely large folder during comparison only; however, I've been unsuccessful finding a solution in the manual, and the help forum. Am I right in concluding that exclusions/inclusions are only possible during synchronizations?
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xCSxXenon

You can't exclude from the comparison. It has to scan the excluded/included items before it can determine if they need to be excluded/included
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Plerry

Perhaps you are able to (re)define your left-right base folder pair(s) such that your said "extremely large folder" is not part of any of your base folder pair(s).
In that case it will neither be compared nor synced.
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Zenju

You can't exclude from the comparison. It has to scan the excluded/included items before it can determine if they need to be excluded/included xCSxXenon, 25 Jul 2023, 19:32
It depends on the filter: e.g. "exclude: *.tmp" necessarily needs to scan all folders, but "exclude: \foldername" does not scan any deeper, therefore the subfolders are already excluded during comparison.
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xCSxXenon

You can't exclude from the comparison. It has to scan the excluded/included items before it can determine if they need to be excluded/included xCSxXenon, 25 Jul 2023, 19:32
It depends on the filter: e.g. "exclude: *.tmp" necessarily needs to scan all folders, but "exclude: \foldername" does not scan any deeper, therefore the subfolders are already excluded during comparison. Zenju, 26 Jul 2023, 08:17
Yes! An important note. The OP should be able to exclude the folder to avoid it being scanned