Sync empty directories

[dhighet]

I'm syncing a local folder with a network folder that a lot of other people work on directly, including creating empty folders for future use of existing projects.

Unfortunately my FFS is not syncing these empty folders to me locally when they are created, is there a way to do this? Thank you!

[Zenju]

FFS generally syncs empty folders. I assume you have some include filter set which excludes these folders from sync.

[dhighet]

I've set the Sync to: "<- Two Way ->"
Comparison to: "File and time size"
Filter Timespan: 2 days
Filter Includes:

*
*\
\*


Filter Excludes:

\System Volume Information\
\$Recycle.Bin\
\RECYCLER\
\RECYCLED\
*\desktop.ini
*\thumbs.db
*.fs;*.tmp;*.syncdb;*.DS_Store;*.idlk
*\QT-*\;*Invoice*


[dhighet]

Fiddling more with this, it looks like what is affecting it is setting a Timespan.

Is there a way around this? As I'm only trying to sync "recent" things. If I pull everything I will not have enough room locally.

[Zenju]

*
*\
\*


This include filter is strange and can be replaced by a single `*`.

> Filter Timespan: 2 days

This is the reason why empy folders are excluded. The time stamp filter (as well as the file size filter) exclude all folders, but this is overwritten if they contain items that are not excluded and are subject to synchronization.

[dhighet]

*
*\
\*


This include filter is strange and can be replaced by a single `*`.

> Filter Timespan: 2 days

This is the reason why empy folders are excluded. The time stamp filter (as well as the file size filter) exclude all folders, but this is overwritten if they contain items that are not excluded and are subject to synchronization.

Yes this was my desperate attempt to get it to include sub directories, haha. Is there a way to include them for my reasons mentioned above? Or some other method to acccomplish what I'm trying to do? Thank you Zenju!

[Zenju]

You could use a second folder pair with different filter settings and only include these empty folders.