Macros do not expand within filters

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Given the following directory structure to mirror but excluding the 2020 subdirectory,
C:\temp\1\
C:\temp\1\2020\

using the filter *\2020\ works, but not the macro *\%year%\. Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. Thank you.

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Bump. I've attached some pictures that illustrate the problem.

The following screenshot shows the macro having no effect:

Filter settings using '*\%year%\'

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While this screenshot shows the numeric value filtering as expected:

Filter settings using '2020'

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Thank you for your help.

[Plerry]

Although the Manual section on Macros states:

All directory paths may contain macros that are expanded during synchronization.

it seems the use of macro's is (presently) not supported in Include/Exclude Filter definitions.
Zenju, can you confirm?
If so, why not? It seems to make sense.

[Zenju]

Although the Manual section on Macros states:

All directory paths may contain macros that are expanded during synchronization.

it seems the use of macro's is (presently) not supported in Include/Exclude Filter definitions.
Zenju, can you confirm?

Yes.

If so, why not? It seems to make sense.

It seems there is little (?) benefit in allowing it, and also little (?) risk of ambiguity because "%macroname%" is a valid file name. So probably a net zero.

Also note that a lot of the environment variables resolve to absolute paths, so don't work as a filter expression anyway.