Filtering out with full path?

[durumdara2]

Dear Author!

Windows 11, Version 11.17 64 bit.
I want to backup partially to a pendrive which has lower capacity.
I have 3 main folders to backup and many subfolders.
So I copied the original job, and tried to filter out some folders to decrease the result's size (simple mirror).

The first problem that seems to be FFS not check the full path.
If I write:
c:\S_XE3\Tests\*
then the folders
c:\S_XE3\Tests\Printer
...
c:\S_XE3\Tests\Zip
all remain in result list.

But I can't filter with:
*\Tests\*
because under other main folder I already have this subfolder with children:
c:\S_BASE\Tests\Important
c:\S_BASE\Tests\Doc
...

The question is:

The full path isn't filters out anything: is this a bug? F. e: drive sign, upper/lowercase, etc.

Or I did something wrong?

If the FFS can filter only with subfolders, how to make difference between folder name which exists in all main folders - but one of them is not needed?

Thank you for the answers!

Best regards
dd

[Plerry]

The first bullet on the FFS Manual page on the Include and Exclude Filter essentially already says it:
All In- and Exclude filter definitions are relative to the left and right base location of the sync, and should therefore not be absolute (otherwise they could never exclude a file in the left- AND right side location).

[xCSxXenon]

Change
c:\S_XE3\Tests\*
to
\S_XE3\Tests\*

[Zenju]

Using full paths seems to be a common error that FFS could detect and also fix in most cases. Implemented for the next version:

full-path-correction.PNG (43.54 KiB) Viewed 598 times

https://www.mediafire.com/file/2mb95odlrz3eby4/FreeFileSync_11.24_%255BBeta%255D_Windows_Setup%25282%2529.exe