Bit of background, I set up freefilesync to Update the Users folder from the C drive to it's backup on the D drive. When it runs it leaves a bunch of files in the recycle bin that look like they came out of appdata, it's mostly data files and tiny images, nothing a human would ever care about. I'd like it to stop doing this if possible.
I thought I set it to ignore appdata by adding \appdata\ to the filters. It looks like this wasn't enough, what am I doing wrong?
Also, this is for a paranoid old woman who will keep calling me back until stuff stops mysteriously appearing in her recycle bin, thanks!
Filtering out appdata and dumping stuff in the recycle bin?
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Switch the exclusion to '*\AppData\"
or "\Users\%username%\AppData\"
Your current setting is excluding "\Users\Appdata\" which doesn't exist
or "\Users\%username%\AppData\"
Your current setting is excluding "\Users\Appdata\" which doesn't exist
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I thought I was missing something like that, thank you! There are actually two users on the system, "*\AppData\" should catch both of them, correct?
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Yes, use the star version since a '*' is a wildcard that matches anything