Add more examples to help

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Joined: 11 Mar 2018

huuurz

Hi,
in https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=exclude-items please add more examples to make it clearer.

If I want to exclude something via rightclick on the bottom left, the menu often offers something like
\myfolder\
*\myfolder\
and you don't know what the difference is.

So please add
All folders named "SubFolder" below base directory            *\SubFolder\
directly under
Single folder C:\Source\SubFolder                              \SubFolder\

Also please add, what asterisk at the end means (not sure if the following is correct).
So
*\SubFolder\   ===   *\SubFolder\*
but why do I need a trailing asterisk in the example
*temp*
?

What about foldernames that have dots?
\SubFolder\*.tmp
also matches the files located under
C:\SubFolder\test.tmp\examplefile.txt
?

So from the help
*.txt files located in subdirectories of base directories     \*\*.txt
should actually analouge to the third line in help be
All files (and folders) ending with ".txt" located in subdirectories of base directories     \*\*.txt
It's just a bit confusing, I think the help could need some more examples.

Thanks and best regards,
huuurz
Last edited by huuurz on 12 Mar 2018, 15:55, edited 1 time in total.
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Joined: 6 Dec 2017

gogreen1

These suggestions would be helpful. One critical error I've noticed in a lot of user manuals is that they assume users know much more than they actually do know.