Bug or design

Posts: 1 · ilikehtml5 2 Mar 2016, 23:04

I am wondering if the following is a bug or by design:

If I am mirroring the left directory to the right directory. But then later decide to exclude a sub-folder in the left directory from syncing, shouldn't the right directory be a mirror by deleting the folder I have excluded. Currently it is left as is.

Thanks

Posts: 7213 · Zenju 3 Mar 2016, 15:26

That's a consequence of the current design that excluded files are not processed at all on both sides.

Posts: 3 · backup-backup-backup 4 Mar 2016, 13:26

Also, when you exclude a subfolder by unticking its check box, I get that to mean FFS is not going to process the subfoder at all, not even for determining what subfolders should be removed on the other side.
If you want to actually delete the subfolder in both the original directory and the mirror, just delete it in file explorer before syncing, then it will be deleted in the mirror directory too.