Excluding directiries and files with special characters

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Hello,

i have read the documentation and also done a search - but not found any answer suiting my problem. So don’t beat me if i missed soemthing.

Ok, to my question:
i use rclone (latest stable build) and Amazon Drive. Got it to work as documented.
I now want to do a regular sync of my Synology drive (i use Amazon Drive as a kind of Backup)

Within the Synology drives, there are subfolders named $RECYCLE.BIN or #recycle. In addition, there is somehting like a stream (?) but not a physical (visible) subdirectory named @eaDir.

I already tried to use the --exclude and also --exclude-from options.
Tried with name as above and also within doeble brackets and also escaped with ‘’.
Also tried *eardir and similar.

But those are still synced but not excluded.
Sure i am missing something simple and obvious - sure someone of you can help me getting this done?!

Thanks in advance,
Alsbucher aka Ralf

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Really nobody can help me?

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If you’ve got difficult file names then sticking them in an --exclude-from file is the best. Post the contents of your file would be helpful.

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Hello,

thanks for help in advance.
I put the following in the exclude file, named rclone-exclude.txt

#recycle The original name
#recycle My try of escaping the character
@eaDir Original name
@eaDir Again my try of escaping

Called it with rclone --exclude-from rclone-exclude.conf source dest
Path of exclude file is correct, double-checked this.

/ Ralf

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In one you said ‘txt’ in the other you said ‘conf’. Is the file name correct?

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If you want to exclude a directory and all of its contents you need a different syntax.

So I think something like this should work in your --exclude-from file

$RECYCLE.BIN/**
\#recycle/**
@eaDir/**

Note that #recycle needed a \ before the # as # is the comment character.

See http://rclone.org/filtering/ for more details

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Thanks very much, ncw.
Thats exactly what i needed.

As thought, it’s quite simple… adding a /** and… the excludes work!

Maybe adding it to the webpage could also help others?

Now i setup a script to sync my NAS content with ACD and i now have an online backup outside my house! Great tool!

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