Exclude all while including a subdirectory?

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1

Hi there,

Is it possible to exclude a complete directory, but then whitelist a certain subdirectory?

E.g in filters:

  • doc/

Does not seem to work - do I always have to specify this explicitly?

2

The filter list is traversed in order, so put the most specific ones first. That should help.

3

Ah, I thought it will get overridden if I add a - * rule at the end.
Maybe this could be mentioned in the docs as it was not clear to me and is very helpful to know.

Thanks for your help!

4

I’m always interested in making the docs clearer. Can you suggest an edit (or even better send a pull request?)

I think the relevant section is: http://rclone.org/filtering/#how-the-rules-are-used

Maybe it should say something like - new words in italic

Each file is matched in order, starting from the top, against the list until it finds a match.

5

Thanks @ncw! The quoted addition would be sufficient from my point of view! Thanks a lot for your clarification, my backups are working as expected now, really great!

6

Ok I’ve stuck that in the docs.

:smile: