I am using FreeFileSync to sync a complete server drive to an external hard drive and I want to exclude a complete directory including all directories and files within it. I have tried adding a filter (the filter for the folder pair not the one at the bottom):
[source drive]:\data\_archived items\
but folders within the "_archived" items" folder still get copied. I then tried adding:
[source drive]:\data\_archived items\*
[source drive]:\data\_archived items\*\*
[source drive]:\data\_archived items\*\*\*
etc
but the folders still get synced - what am I doing wrong?
Exclude subdirectories
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Sorry but I didn't understand the forum formatting rules. The exclusions I set up are:
Drive letter: path backslash asterisk and backslash asterisk backslash asterisk, etc
Drive letter: path backslash asterisk and backslash asterisk backslash asterisk, etc
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The filter path needs to be relative to synchronization base directories. See the help file on "exclude items" for details. Shortcut: right-click on an item on main grid and exclude it, then look at the filter syntax this action has generated.