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O, the penny just dropped! :oops: Having tried various 'masks' that didn't work, I then edited an existing mask but entered it as a regex - which as you forecast didn't work either. Instead of LOOKING at the Add list and SEEING 'Regular expression' . At this point I posted the question. I had got hi...

I'm a novice when it comes to regular expressions.

I only have one entry in the exclusions list, which I thought was a regex:
.*\\\build\\.*

In addition I have: 'Ignore empty directories' checked.

Backups are directed to a local drive (not ftp).

I could live with empty folder inclusion but this is not the case. I'm excluding these folder(s) because of their content size. These folders actually contain several mbs with the exclusion mask applied.

Hi, I'm having difficulty working with exclusion masks for folders. For example, using the following exclusion mask: .*\\\build\\.* the sub-folder: build still gets backed up wherever it appears in the source file selection. The only exclusion that works for me is to specify the full path of the var...

Oops, I missed that option.

Thank you.

Hello, Firstly, thank you for making Cobian backup and freely sharing it. I have a backup project that uses a symlink or reparse point on windows 10. The files in the link do not get backed up, which is logged as: Ignoring the directory ... Reason: the directory is a reparse point. . Why does this h...