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samsonsin

Hello! Just recently started using the program, and i am putting it to great use! I am currently employing it for numerous purposes, one of which is to transfer newly downloaded items to my NAS. Is there any way to filter files according to substrings in their names?

Is there any way i can use logical arguments like and, or, etc in the filter process?

Can you employ file-size filters of any kind?

Thanks for any help!
//Sam
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Plerry

I suppose you have read the Manual page on Excludes and Includes.
There it is clearly stated "Files and directories are only considered for synchronization if they pass all filter rules. They have to match at least one entry in the include list and none of the entries in the exclude list as presented in the filter configuration dialog"
So, the Include filter is an OR of the (potentially) multiple entries;
the Exclude filter effectively a NOR of its multiple entries.

Filter definitions are always relative to the left and right base location, and may include the wildcards "*" and "."
Other than the Or and NOR for the Include, respectively Exclude filter, you can not define logical combinations.
Often those sort of challenges can be addressed by defining multiple left-right folder pairs and define local filters.