adding the ignore condition, only files can be deleted, but folders cannot be deleted?

[shumintao (SHUMIN)]

• . stignore

!D/**/Info/ExperimentInfo.txt
*

• macos

(base) ╭─facebook at FaceBook的MacBook Pro in ~/Sync using 
╰─○ ls
D                  ExperimentInfo.txt
(base) ╭─facebook at FaceBook的MacBook Pro in ~/Sync using 
╰─○ rm -rf D 

• other

[edge@gs-server-11051 kmci3-tuqhj]$ tree
.
└── D
    └── csv222
        └── Info

Only deleted the Experiment Info.txt file, the D folder was not deleted …

[tomasz86]

Please be more specific and describe in details what you actually desire to do. It may be just me, but all the funky characters don’t really help either .

Screenshots may better display what you’re trying to do, so if you can, please show how the situation looks in the Syncthing Web GUI, including the ignore patterns.

[shumintao (SHUMIN)]

• macos

• edge

want:

I hope that when the D folder is deleted on macOS, edge can also delete the D folder. Now just delete the file, not delete the folder

[AudriusButkevicius]

Only the file is “not ignored”, all the folders under it are technically ignored, hence are not touched, even if not needed.

[tomasz86]

Very ugly, but this should do the job. Tested locally, and the whole tree does get deleted this way.

!D/**/Info/ExperimentInfo.txt
(?d)D/**/
!D/**
(?d)D/
!D
(?d)*

[shumintao (SHUMIN)]

Thank you so much for your help, you really helped me out with a big problem