Collecting information scanning excluded folders

[piet200]

I have a job which looks similar as the job configuration below.

All though I have excluded some folders, when I start the comparison it does scan all folders including the ‘excluded’ folders.
Since this is a very large folder structure it takes a very long time scanning folders which are irrelevant.

Is there a way to prevent the application to scan excluded folders ?

Source/Target
C:\source\folder1 c:\target\folder1

Subfolder filter:
Exclude: c:\source\folder1\Subfolder2
Exclude: c:\source\folder1\Subfolder4
Exclude: c:\source\folder1\Subfolder6
Exclude: c:\source\folder1\Subfolder8

File filter:
Include: \Subfolder1\
Include: \Subfolder3\
Include: \Subfolder5\
Include: \Subfolder7\

Structure:
C:\source\folder1\subfolder1
Subfolder2
Subfolder3
Subfolder4
Subfolder5
Subfolder6
Subfolder7
Subfolder8

[TGRMN Software]

Hi, I think ViceVersa is looking into :

Exclude: c:\source\folder1\Subfolder2
Exclude: c:\source\folder1\Subfolder4
Exclude: c:\source\folder1\Subfolder6
Exclude: c:\source\folder1\Subfolder8

for potential files that could need to be included, given :

File filter:
Include: \Subfolder1\
Include: \Subfolder3\
Include: \Subfolder5\
Include: \Subfolder7\

If you use an absolute path for the file filters too, then it should be OK.
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[piet200]

Hi,

The example I made was not exactly the real world situation.

I am using UNC paths for the source and target directory, these path's are quite long and I don't want to replace them with a drive letter.

so it will be something like this:

source: \\?\UNC\<networkpath_source>
target: \\?\UNC\<networkpath_target>

subfolder filter:

Include> \Subfolder1\**
Include> \Subfolder3\**

file filter:

Exclude> \Subfolder1\trash\**
Exclude> \Subfolder3\trash2\**


But this configuration does not achieve what I want.
When do I use no asterisks, one asterisk or two asterisks ?

how do I sync the above folders "Subfolder1" and "Subfolder3" including all subfolders and files, except for the trash folders as mentioned above.

It is unclear which filter configuration I need to use to achieve this.

can you please explain ?

[TGRMN Software]

Hi, given :

source: \\?\UNC\<networkpath_source>
target: \\?\UNC\<networkpath_target>

If you want to include only files in subfolder 'Subfolder1' and 'Subfolder3' but exclude files in subfolders 'trash' and 'trash2', then use:

Subfolder filters:
Include> \Subfolder1\
Include> \Subfolder3\
Exclude> trash
Exclude> trash2

thanks
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