# File exception seems like not working

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**Category:** General Topics\
**Created:** [November 13, 2025, 7:49am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/file-exception-seems-like-not-working/8683 "2025-11-13T07:49:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![dennyhalim](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/dennyhalim/32/1902_2.png) [@dennyhalim](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/dennyhalim)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 7:49am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/file-exception-seems-like-not-working/8683/1 "2025-11-13T07:49:11Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![budy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/budy/32/38_2.png) [@budy](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/budy)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 9:22am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/file-exception-seems-like-not-working/8683/2 "2025-11-13T09:22:51Z")

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

```auto
temp/**
cache/**

```

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**Author:** ![dennyhalim](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/dennyhalim/32/1902_2.png) [@dennyhalim](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/dennyhalim)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 9:37am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/file-exception-seems-like-not-working/8683/3 "2025-11-13T09:37:22Z")

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but there are also files in those folders.

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

or can this works, without asteriks?

temp/

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**Author:** ![budy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/budy/32/38_2.png) [@budy](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/budy)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/file-exception-seems-like-not-working/8683/4 "2025-11-13T13:26:13Z")

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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.

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**Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 12:21pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/file-exception-seems-like-not-working/8683/5 "2025-11-14T12:21:41Z")

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> [@dennyhalim](#):
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> or can this works, without asteriks?
> 
> temp/

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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**Author:** ![dennyhalim](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/dennyhalim/32/1902_2.png) [@dennyhalim](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/dennyhalim)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/file-exception-seems-like-not-working/8683/6 "2025-11-17T01:45:18Z")

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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.