Rclone exclude not excluding folders

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Trying to run rclone from my unraid server to my NAS. I noticed its trying to copy folders I put in exclude. Why would it be trying to copy it?

Script:

rclone sync -v /mnt/user/backups/ NAS:adehaan86/unraidbkup/ --exclude “/Older video/" --exclude "/Work/”

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--exclude "/Work/**”

Dash dash. And two stars match deeper directory and files.

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Is that 1 dash that you used? I do have the double astricks have there. but it did not show in post.

here is screenshot of what I have since I cant put that.

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Dash dash. And two stars match deeper directory and files.

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And the slash in front says to match from the root. So if these are in subdirs you need

"**/Work/**"
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Directory kind of goes like this
A
B
C
BlueIRIS
>Older Video(sub directory)
D
E
F
Work
> directories(sub directory)

New script below

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That looks right… Or you can do this

If you want to ensure its one deep.

"/*/Older Video/**"

Or fully qualify it:

"/BlueIRIS/Older Video/**"
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Awesome Thank you for your time. That works perfect!

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