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Profile Settings - Exclusion Masks

Exclusions (files & folders)

You can exclude certain files or folders such as *.tmp or *.bak. You can also specify complete file or folder names here. You can enter only the name to exclude, or full paths or a part of the name combined with wildcards. Wildcards to use are * and ?.
Trailing slashes are not allowed. Folders are specified in the same way as files. Wildcards are only allowed in the name itself. So if you specify a full path, only the last part (the name) can contain wildcards.
The recommended way to enter full paths is to use them relative to the profile's base paths. So you start with a slash and then type only those folders in the path that are relative to the base.

Examples:

*.tmp

/Volumes

/Users/Shared

.*

/Documents/*.jpg

The exclusion masks can also be read from a text file. In that case, start the line in the Inclusion Masks edit field with a colon : and type the full path of the text file directly after it.

See also:

Upper Part Of Tab Seet

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