File exception seems like not working

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i have these ignore list

*.mp*,temp/*,cache/*,AppData/Local/*,AppData/LocalLow/*,Downloads/*

but when snapshot is running, i see the details, it’s showing those folders still get snapshot.

anything wrong with my list?

thanks

2

Afair, you need to double the asterisks to exclude any sub-folders. So its like

temp/**
cache/**
3

but there are also files in those folders.

must i list both like this?
temp/*
temp/**

or can this works, without asteriks?

temp/

4

My guess is, that the first asterisk catches all files in that folder, but not recursively underneath - hence the double asterisk. I am using that myself exactly with that notation. Also note, that all exclusions are always relative to your starting point.

5

I think it would work with just “temp” in that situation, it would skip the whole dir, and the dir itself.

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ok i checked it seems like temp will just works.

but be careful that you might also excluding something like tempura.

so i just use slash to make sure it’s a folder

temp/

thanks.