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martin

Please attach a full log file showing the problem on a very small set of files/links (using the latest version of WinSCP).

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noftpanymore

Either ignores or gives error message 'no such file or directory'.
martin

noftpanymore wrote:

It might be useful to add this important information to the help in that specific dialog.

The article on file masks in linked from
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/ui_editmask
I have just added one more explicit link.

One more question: is it possible to exclude links from synchronization? My server runs on Linux, my computer on Windows, so I have all links found on the server manually added (via mk link /d) to my local copy. That works, but everytime I sync WinSCP stumbles over the links as it cannot handle (or translate) them correctly. I don't expect it to do that, but it should be possible then to exclude those links somehow.

Can you please elaborate on the "stumble"?
noftpanymore

That worked, thanks a lot!

It might be useful to add this important information to the help in that specific dialog.

One more question: is it possible to exclude links from synchronization? My server runs on Linux, my computer on Windows, so I have all links found on the server manually added (via mk link /d) to my local copy. That works, but everytime I sync WinSCP stumbles over the links as it cannot handle (or translate) them correctly. I don't expect it to do that, but it should be possible then to exclude those links somehow.

Or should I add them as files into the file exclude mask?
martin

Re: Exclude Directories

See https://winscp.net/eng/docs/file_mask#directory

Important point is:
The path mask is matched against full path, i.e. not against path relative path to a root of file transfer or synchronization


So either use just the directory name cache/ (what excludes all cache directories anywhere).
Or use a mask that matches a full path, i.e. /home/user/website/cache/ or */website/cache/.
noftpanymore

Exclude Directories

Sorry if this is just me being too stupid, but for the life of me I am not able to exclude specific subdirectories from synchronizing. I managed to exclude several top level dirs, but now want to exclude the folder 'cache' with all files in it as well as all its subdirectories. Cache itself is a subdirectory of 'website', so the mask should include

;website/cache/

It does, it looks ok, but it doesn't do anything, means all files and folders found in 'cache' are still synced.

I tried website/cache, website/cache/* and so on, no effect at all.

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