Don’t sync all the pairs each time

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Hello
I’ve been using SyncToy for many years and appreciated the possibility to select the pairs I wanted to sync at any given time.
Is there a way to do that with FreeFileSync ?
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xCSxXenon

Hit the '-' symbol to remove the pairs?
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Thanks xCSxXenon, I had tried this but could not find a way to exclude a folder pair.
Besides, I do not want to always exclude certain folder pairs, using '_' is not particularly fast and easy.
In SyncToy I just selected "all folder pairs" and unselected those I wanted to exclude...
I switched to FileSync because SyncToy did not work well with my version of Windows...
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xCSxXenon

Your workflow in SyncToy is no different than selecting the config in FFS and clicking the minus icon for the rows you want to exclude
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@xCSxXenon -
Yes, but when I click the minus icon it does not only exclude the pair, it removes it completely - so that when I need to sync this particular pair I have to create it again, this is very unpractical and ridiculously time-consuming
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xCSxXenon

Don't save the config? Then just click a different config and then reload it and the pairs are back