After lots of manual experiments and research with this forum's search function, some AI helpers, this might be a real bug or shortcoming of the exclusion feature in the Synchronize tool.
Don't get me wrong, it is a great and powerful tool, but I cannot find a way to solve a usecase I quite often have:
I want to synchronize working directories to a transfer/backup drive, but since the directories are mostly code projects and include build directories (LOTS of binary data), I want to exclude certain usual directories with names like "obj" or "bin". But exclusions like
*\bin\*bin\**\bin\*\bin
don't work and always still show the selected bin directories in the compare result.
As I have read The option to exclude a folder from the sync process is not working. - #4 by Jon, I think it's important to add that the bin directories may lie on top level or deeply nested inside subdirectories.
Is there a way to make these mass transfers with directory exclusion based on name patterns?
Bye!
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