Thank you so much for making such useful software - I have spent a long time looking for a good synchronization tool and I have now found it in FreeFileSync. It would be nice though to have a good help file as at the moment I am confused as to whether there is an option to NOTsychronize sub-folders. In some cases I do not want to! I know this could be done using the filter but this gets difficult if you have a lot of sub-folders you do not want to synchronize.
Can you please let me know if this is possible.
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Hi collinro!Thank you so much for making such useful software - I have spent a long time looking for a good synchronization tool and I have now found it in FreeFileSync. It would be nice though to have a good help file as at the moment I am confused as to whether there is an option to NOTsychronize sub-folders. In some cases I do not want to! I know this could be done using the filter but this gets difficult if you have a lot of sub-folders you do not want to synchronize.
Can you please let me know if this is possible.collinro
Here's how you can setup your filter to exclude all subfolders:
I assume you sync <dirnameA> and <dirnameB>:
Simply set exclusion filters to:
<dirnameA>\*\*; <dirnameB>\*\*
This will exclude all files/folders beyond your sync-folders that contain a "\". This are exactly the files/folders in subdirectories.
Best regards, Zenju
