Daniel Clarke Posted March 3, 2020 Report Share Posted March 3, 2020 Is there a way to ignore ALL subfolders? I've tried /**/ and that stops all syncing completely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy+ Posted March 4, 2020 Report Share Posted March 4, 2020 Maybe */* or /*/* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icu777 Posted March 5, 2020 Report Share Posted March 5, 2020 hi community thanks andy+, */* worked fine. but by doing this, the sub-folders under root level will still be created on the other peers. they are all empty. nothing inside them. just a bunch of empty sub-folders. and then, if someone accidently delete or modify the empty folders on the peer sides, which were not allowed to be synced, then on the server side the original folders content lots of your important files, will also be deleted real quick. this is because resilio sync considered that folder is no longer exist and removed it. so leaving those folders to an amateur or someone you don't trust will make you in a big risk. be careful. for me, if i had some files or folders don't wanna to be synced, simply prefix a ~ to these folders, and they will disappear like a charm on other peers. no need to add rules into the ignore file. just prefix a ~ to ignore. and you can use this mothed on almost any folder / files. have a try. BR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy+ Posted March 5, 2020 Report Share Posted March 5, 2020 Did you set up the ignore patterns on both peers or all peers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icu777 Posted March 5, 2020 Report Share Posted March 5, 2020 yes, on single peer, both peers, or more than 3 peers, with read / write permission. the results are all the same. guess resilio sync can't handle this kind of logistic errors. still the best sync application! BR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icu777 Posted March 5, 2020 Report Share Posted March 5, 2020 on win10s and win7s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy+ Posted March 5, 2020 Report Share Posted March 5, 2020 Maybe test Syncthing to have that feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icu777 Posted March 6, 2020 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 hi andy+ will try syncthing some other day. thanks for the information. and about the prefix ~ thing, actually its just because there already had a ~* rule on the ignore list. which i believe was originally from the office automatically generated temporary files. they all have ~ prefixed, and resilio sync do not sync temp files. not that magical. haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daria Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 @Daniel Clarke there is no way to ignore all subfolders at once. The recommended way is to specify each subfolder in the IgnoreList. Please mind that the file is case sensitive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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