CobianSoft

It might be possible. They are contained in .lst files. Open Reflector and choose List => Save list as and then look at the file you saved. I've successfully edited mine once when that was easier than using the UI, but it's not really designed to be human readable.

Wow, I just clicked on Translate to see what it was. I've always admired you as a programmer/architect. That feature and it's implementation is so impressive. Never seen anything like that before and just makes so much sense.

A lot of antivirus triggers happen when a file is read, if the antivirus thinks the file is being opened, it might stop it and unless you run a full system scan it might not find it.

I assume you're using something with .net and using a list box for that display. If that's true, can't you just change it to a checked list box. It's gets you checks, but then I assume it requires a fair amount of work behind it so it both saves the checks and respects them during a backup.

Out of curiosity, is there a way to close Cobian from the command line? If you, one might be able to make a batch file that closes it, runs the backup and then starts it again. It would likely have to be a Windows command that can send the close command to a running process. This seems to work here ...

It was right there. I didn't think anything of the quoted path in the filters as that's legal in Windows for paths with spaces, but it seems you allow spaces in paths without surrounding quotes and don't strip them if they are there. I'd guess it would be more Windows like if you stripped them or di...

It's an incremental backup, all the other jobs work fine. This picture sholes all the paths in the job. It use to work but stopped for no reason I can see. Thew paths on the right are all exclusions.

Can you give me a clue about what that error message means?

So, I was wrong, it currently happens every time. As far as I can see the only non-alpha characters in any of the paths is a "_".

I assume this was because of some network problem as it's target is \\server\folder and it worked fine when I tried it a second time. But I've never seen this sort of error message before, so I thought I'd share. All the stuff in the comment block was red. 2023-03-06 11:46:12 Applying the parameters...