How to exclude all google files types (without extension) at once.

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zoxuandinhzo

hi everyone, i have been using freefilesync recently and i feel it is great. It can help me sync data between my computer and google drive quickly and continuously.
But i found a pretty annoying problem that it can't sync google document files. i found an old post about this but still no way to sync them: viewtopic.php?t=8529
i feel it is ok to not sync those files because it is not really necessary. But the problem is if i don't sync then i have to manually exclude those files one by one with the exact name. If i don't exclude then it will keep on giving error and i don't like that. so i want to find a way to exclude all these google files once and for all with filter because they have common feature of not having extension.
I also looked up the file exclusion guide: https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=exclude-files
But unfortunately it still doesn't work, so I want to seek help from everyone. Thank you.
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Zenju

You could excluded files with size 0, which includes the Google doc file types (and hopefully only those).
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zoxuandinhzo

You could excluded files with size 0, which includes the Google doc file types (and hopefully only those). Zenju, 04 Sep 2024, 08:03
Thanks for your suggestion but unfortunately that doesn't work. Because those google files still have size (shown in the second image). And if you exclude size 0 then empty (temporary) folders will not be backed up anymore or deleted if 2-way sync.