Exclude Option

Enter here the kinds of files or directories you want to exclude from the operation. Wildcards are allowed. Separate items with commas. For example, to exclude all backup files, from the operation, you could specify *.bak, *~.

Click on the button to the right of the Exclude text field to bring up a list of common exclude patterns ( tmp, *.o, *.obj, *.bak, *~, *.log, *.db). Selecting a pattern will append the pattern to the current contents of the Exclude text field.

Do not specify paths in your arguments to Exclude. Before operating on each object (such as during a recursive operation), DesignSync compares the object's leaf name (path stripped off) to the items in the Exclude field to see if there is a match. Because the object's path is not considered, it will not match any item in the exclude list specified with a path. For example, if you specify bin/*.exe in the Exclude field, you will not successfully exclude bin/test.exe or any other *.exe file. You need to instead specify *.exe (or test.exe if you want to exclude only test.exe). This means, however, that you cannot exclude a specific instance of a file or folder -- you exclude all matching files and folders.

See the DesignSync System Administrator's Guide: Exclude Lists topic for information about global exclude lists.