Need help with include/exclude filters.

[apex84]

Ok, so I've created a backup task for a folder pair with 4 excluded subfolders. Everything works fine except for a subfolder within an excluded subfolder that I want to backup.

So I want to backup "C:\Utilities\Skype\Data\settings" but not any other file/folder under "\Skype", just the "\settings" folder. I tried adding "C:\Utilities\Skype" as an excluded item and "C:\Utilities\Skype\Data\settings" as an included item but when I do this, FFS doesn't backup anything in the Skype folder. If I remove it from the excluded list it wants to backup the entire Skype folder instead.


This is what my filters for the Utilities folder look like:

Include:
*
*\Utilities\Skype\Data\settings

Exclude:
*\Utilities\LibreOffice
*\Utilities\Mozilla Firefox\Data\profile\Cache
*\Utilities\Skype
*\Inkscape


Have I misunderstood how it works or is this a limitation of the program?

[Plerry]

Don't know if this works, but as no one has replied yet:
Did you try to create two folder pairs
(using the green "+" sign just left of the left sync folder location box)?
For example:
Define "C:\" as your first left-location and e.g. "D:\BackupFolder\" as your first right-location.
Then define "C:\Utilities\Skype\Data\settings\" as your second left-location and "D:\BackupFolder\Utilities\Skype\Data\settings\" as your second right-location.

Now change the include filter to the default "*".
The exclude filter "\Utilities\Skype" should exclude the (entire) Skype folder in the first folder pair,
but should not match for the second folder pair.

[apex84]

Don't know if this works, but as no one has replied yet:
Did you try to create two folder pairs
(using the green "+" sign just left of the left sync folder location box)?
For example:
Define "C:\" as your first left-location and e.g. "D:\BackupFolder\" as your first right-location.
Then define "C:\Utilities\Skype\Data\settings\" as your second left-location and "D:\BackupFolder\Utilities\Skype\Data\settings\" as your second right-location.

Now change the include filter to the default "*".
The exclude filter "\Utilities\Skype" should exclude the (entire) Skype folder in the first folder pair,
but should not match for the second folder pair.

Thanks. I don't know why I didn't think of that