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thbenner

Hello,

I would like to exclude everything in AppData except some files/subfolders.
I tried it with the following Rule:

Include:
*
\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook\*

exclude:
\Roaming\
\Local\
\LocalLow\

Nothing is synced. Why?
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xCSxXenon

You're excluding all three main AppData folders
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thbenner

Yes, exactly I would like to exclude everything in AppData except
\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook\*
like explained in the manual:

Example: Exclude a sub folder except for certain files
Set up two folder pairs with the same source and target paths but with distinct local filters:
Folder pair 1; local exclude filter: \SubFolder\
Folder pair 2; local include filter: \SubFolder\*.txt
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tim

Hi, Do these filter rules do what you want?

As I understand it FFS builds a list of files first from the include rules, and then removes any files matching the exclude rules. So you can delete the '*' wildcard and specify just the subfolders you want, with no need to explicitly exclude any unwanted parent folders.

Include:
\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook

Exclude:
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Plerry

You (thbenner) do not make your intentions very clear .
If the only thing you want to sync is everything in C:\Users\[User]\Appdata\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook\, you can simply define your left base location as that, and select/define a corresponding right location.
Everything else in AppData is then automatically not synced.

However, if you want to sync everything in C:\Users\[User], but do not want to sync anything in AppData except in C:\Users\[User]\Appdata\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook\, then you need to follow the example in the manual (as you seem to suggest to be doing), but then do it correctly.
Define two pairs,
the first pair having a left location C:\Users\[User] and a corresponding right location, in which you use the default local Include Filter (*) and define a local Exclude Filter \AppData\
(this should sync anything in C:\Users\[User], except anything in AppData)
the second left-right pair having the same left and right location as the first pair, for which you define a local Include Filter of \Appdata\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook\* and an empty or default local Exclude Filter.
(This should sync anything in ...\Microsoft\Outlook\)
You can define local (left-right pair specific) filter settings via the funnel-icon
in between each left-right pair.

Slightly beyond the manual, in above example alternatively you may define two pairs,
the first pair having a left location C:\Users\[User] and a corresponding right location, in which you use the default global Include Filter (*) and define a global Exclude Filter \AppData\
(this should sync anything in C:\Users\[User], except anything in AppData)
the second pair having a left location C:\Users\[User]\Appdata\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook\ and a corresponding right location.
(This should sync anything in ...\Microsoft\Outlook\)
As there is no AppData folder inside ...\Microsoft\Outlook\, the global Exclude Filter setting will not exclude said Outlook folder.