Re: Backup creating empty folders
Posted: 07 Jan 2022, 10:00
Thanks for the information.
'Never ignore..' was not checked, but after running a backup with verbose logging it confirmed what I had suspected. Because I am backing up a list of folders from various drives, the top level folder will always be created, although all of the empty subdirectories are removed from it. So, for example, my Photos folder will, after seven days, have one full backup folder with all subdirectories and files, and, given that there is no change in seven days, seven empty folders ('Photos (Incremental)'). It would be nice if these otherwise empty folders could also be removed.
I've also noticed that my 'Downloads' folder, which I have situated in the root of one of my drives, gets a full backup each time and no incremental, and none are marked as such (no date, and no Full/ Incremental flag).
I have absolute paths turned on, but the behaviour with the creation of the top level (backup) folders was the same.
'Never ignore..' was not checked, but after running a backup with verbose logging it confirmed what I had suspected. Because I am backing up a list of folders from various drives, the top level folder will always be created, although all of the empty subdirectories are removed from it. So, for example, my Photos folder will, after seven days, have one full backup folder with all subdirectories and files, and, given that there is no change in seven days, seven empty folders ('Photos (Incremental)'). It would be nice if these otherwise empty folders could also be removed.
I've also noticed that my 'Downloads' folder, which I have situated in the root of one of my drives, gets a full backup each time and no incremental, and none are marked as such (no date, and no Full/ Incremental flag).
I have absolute paths turned on, but the behaviour with the creation of the top level (backup) folders was the same.