Select a subset of folder pairs for a batch job?

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rob2xx2

Hi, Complete newbie here so please forgive me if this is a dumb question - I'm still learning. What I've found so far is extraordinarily good.

I know how to create multiple folder pairs and save the config as a gui file and how to compare/sync them all in one go. But is there any mechanism for selecting a subset of the pairs for compare/sync? For example, imagine folder pairs based on:

Documents
Music
Pictures

My music and pictures folders are enormous. If I only want to sync the Documents can I tell FFS to ignore the other folders *this time around* (without deleting them from the group)? Eventually I envisage having maybe twenty folder pairs in the group, but not wanting to always compare/sync all of them. (And ideally I wouldn't have to define lots of single folder pairs, nor lots of groups of folder pairs). I was thinking I might find check-boxes next to the names of each folder pair, which enables/disables that pair for the operations this time?

Thanks for advice or suggestions
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Zenju

Simplest solution is to create a sync config (containing multiple folder pairs each if needed) for each scenario. Then on-demand select multiple of these sync configs (e.g. mouse+select or click holding CTRL-key) to sync in one go.
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rob2xx2

Wow, neat! I hadn't thought of doing multiple selections using CTRL-click and I just tried it. Works great, thanks for the prompt help. Kudos!