Filter Out Diretories

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Filter Out Diretories

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Greetings Kind Regards I would find it helpful if directories can be filtered out . For example I would like to filter out the .vs directories which Visual Studio creates . I entered *.vs as an exclude mask however upon backup the .vs directories were copied .
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You can enter

*\.vs\*
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it did not work . does it matter that the directory i wish to filter out is a subdirectory ?
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Tested here. The .vs subdirectories are created but empty as it should be. Do you get files inside your .vs folders?
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Yes i did
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Will try to reproduce this somehow.
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I experience the same issue. This is a pity because the .vs folder is not relevant en can grow very large.

Can it be because this folder is read-only (only applies to files in folder) and hidden?
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I use

*\.vs*\*

and

*\.svn*\*

and works fine.
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Thanks, I can confirm that *\.vs*\* works fine.

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:OK
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