Subfolder filters

teofilo · Joined: 13 Oct 2016 Posts: 4

Hi,

Good afternoon.
I am trying to follow the following tutorial on this link:

http://www.tgrmn.com/web/kb/item104.htm

I am trying to set filters from a to e for example [a-e]* to just backup those folders only on my Windows 2008 32 bit system since it's huge and I was getting out of memory errors when Comparing to target.
I find that even if I add those filters to the profile, when I hit compare, VV starts comparing other folders that are not in the a-e range.
Is that normal? Also it takes a lot more time to process.

Teo

Alice · Joined: 29 Jan 2015 Posts: 277

Your subfolder include filter is exactly as below :

\[a-e]*

including the leading backslash ? Otherwise it won't know to apply your subfolder filter only at Level 1 and will process all folders as I understand it

TGRMN Software · Site Admin Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 8758

Yes, if you use [a-e]* ViceVersa thinks you want to include folders starting with a to e at any level, so it starts looking for them in the whole folder structure. If you specify \[a-e]* it will then only look for level-1 subfolders.
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teofilo · Joined: 13 Oct 2016 Posts: 4

Thanks a lot guys!
Now I understand how filter works.
You are right, it was looking at the root level and not in subfolders.

Teo