Ideally, I’d like to include the file path so I can be sure that only that one folder will be affected. I know a bit about ignore patterns, but I’m not sure how to go about it with a file path.
To exclude a specific folder, end the pattern with a folder separator (/), e.g. your .stignore would look like this if you wanted to ignore a folder named “folder”:
/ignore/the/path/to/this/folder/
A file named “folder” under the path /ignore/the/path/to/this/ would not match the pattern, so it would be synced as usual.
How about spaces? Also, how far back do I need to go into the file path? Can I just go as far as the shared folder? To make it a bit easier, here’s the file path subdirectory/subfolder I’d like to exclude
/Documents/Home/Physical Media Copying/Subtitles/
Should I use a tilde at the start?
I’m sorry for asking you all of these questions, but I’m leaving for a trip on Monday morning and I really want to get this squared away ASAP. I’ve tried a few different things, but they haven’t worked and I don’t want to add too much wear to the SSDs in my desktop and laptop repeatedly transferring a 28GB folder back to my desktop.
A pattern is relative to the base/root of the shared folder, so if the shared folder in Syncthing is configured as ~/A/B/C/D, the pattern starts after D.
Syncthing treats spaces in a pattern just like other non-special characters so just use them as-is.
Given the path above, if the “Folder Path” in Syncthing is set to /Documents/Home/, then one possible ignore pattern is this:
/Physical Media Copying/Subtitles/
The first “/” at the beginning is important because it “anchors” the pattern to /Documents/Home, otherwise the pattern would match all instances, e.g.:
.
└── Documents
└── Home
├── Backups
│ └── Physical Media Copying
│ └── Subtitles
└── Physical Media Copying
└── Subtitles
In the sample folder tree above, leaving out the first “/” in the pattern Physical Media Copying/Subtitles/ would end up catching both Subtitles folders (including the one under the Backups folder which might be important).
Note that ending a pattern with a “/” guarantees that only folders will match it and not files, but it also means that only the contents of the matching folder will be ignored – i.e. on the receiving end it’ll be an empty folder. If that’s not ideal, leave out the final “/”, but be careful not to create any files with the same name as what would have been a folder.
Only if a tilde is actually part of a file or folder name you’re trying to match.
No problem. 
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