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Filtering folders and directory|file lists

Posted: 24 Feb 2023, 16:19
by Sovka
I've got some problems and ideas with reflector
Problem^ I'm trying to backup windows user profile and filterout AppData\Local and AppData\LocalLow
i tried this:
mask *\AppData\Local*\*
regexp .*\\AppData\\Local.*\\.*
regexp .*\\AppData\\Local\\.* and .*\\AppData\\LocalLow\\.* separately
added "Ignore empty directpries" on, but programm still creating all directory structure in Local and LocalLow!
How can i filterout Local and LocalLow in user profile copy task?

Idea:
Is there any methods to show files and folders to copy before task starts?
I'ts easy to debug filters before task starting with this function.

Re: Filtering folders and directory|file lists

Posted: 24 Feb 2023, 22:18
by cobian
The folders are being created but are empty. Check Ignore empty directories in the advance tab.

Re: Filtering folders and directory|file lists

Posted: 25 Feb 2023, 20:01
by Sovka
Ignore empty directories in the advance tab doesn't work for me.
Is there any way to not create filtered folders?
My work example is in bottom.
2/3 folders are filtered out, 5/6 files filterred out. Files doesn't copy, but folders are

Re: Filtering folders and directory|file lists

Posted: 26 Feb 2023, 00:09
by cobian
The "Ignore empty directories" should delete the folders after they have been created.

Re: Filtering folders and directory|file lists

Posted: 14 Apr 2024, 11:55
by kassera
My challenge with filtering directories is that
- first all directories will be created and
- afterwards (!) will be deleted (if empty)

I have some database directories with a lot of subdirectories (each database with more than 2500 subdirectories) and all of them will be created (and deleted afterwards) This takes 95% of backup time.

Example:

somewhere\ab.database\0\000
somewhere\ab.database\0\001
somewhere\ab.database\0\ and so on
somewhere\ab.database\1\001
somewhere\ab.database\1\002
somewhere\ab.database\1\ and so on
... and so on
somewhere\ab.database\F\ and so on


somewhere-else\xy.database\0\000
somewhere-else\xy.database\0\001
...
somewhere-else\xy.database\F\...

I completely want to filter out all "*.database" directories (and subdirectories) and do not want backup any files there.

Re: Filtering folders and directory|file lists

Posted: 14 Apr 2024, 15:59
by cobian
Yes, that is unfortunately the case.