SyncIgnore not applying to updated files/subfolders

[Penryn]

I have two peers that I want to keep in sync with one another for software development, while ignoring certain folders. I set up my .SyncIgnore file, and it works initially, but does not apply after any files are updated.

 

Example procedure:

 

• Remove all Synced directories on both peers. Delete .SyncArchive on both peers. Restart BT Sync on both peers for good measure.
• Create .SyncIgnore file at desired Sync root directory on both peers.
• Add folder to BT Sync on peer 1. .SyncIgnore works fine for now. I see the desired number of files.
• Change or add files in an ignored BT Sync folder. .SyncIgnore does not work. Files now get added to the list of synced files. I see more than the desired number of files.
• Add folder to BT Sync on peer 2.
• Peer 2 sees ignored files of peer 1.
• I am sad.

 

 

Am I doing something wrong? Why would SyncIgnore work initially and then just stop working after initial setup?

 

More specifics on what I am trying to do:

 

• I want to ignore all files and subfolders in a directory. Let's call the desired ignored directories "foo" and ".bar"
• I add the following lines to my SyncIgnore file:

foo.bar



• I fire up BT Sync as described above and these folders are not added to BT Sync (good).
• After updating a file or folder in root/some/other/directories/foo/ or root/some/other/paths/.bar/ , the files are added to be synced (bad).

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

[jocelyn]

+1

 

I have similar issue, any suggestion is also welcome.

 

(side note: this would help if the source code would be open, at least we could see how ignore is implemented)

[bold]

+1

I have the same issue!

[JDCNS]

This doesn't work for me either.  I tried putting it in quotes, using a '?', etc.  Nothing seems to ignore the directory.  I see elsewhere, though, that several people seem to be having issues with .SyncIgnore overall.  There must be a bug somewhere in that portion of the code.

 

I should mention also that the log file doesn't seem very helpful.  After turning on debugging, all it says is "Torrent" followed by filename then "status: 137 error:<NULL> meta:1 conns:1 io:0".

Edited December 11, 2013 by JDCNS