Ignore Pattern Targeting A Single FIle

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1

I want to only sync a single file (foo. ) in the root directory which has other files and multiple sub directories. So I entered this:

! foo
*

But it doesn’t exclude the single file I want to keep.

According to all the help files, etc this should work but it doesn’t. What am I missing?

2

You are excluding a file called <space>foo.

It’ll also be more efficient if you target it directly in the root, if that’s where it is.

!/foo
*

Otherwise Syncthing will anyway need to walk all directories to check for entries called foo that might exist in there.

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3

Thanks for the fact response

Entered this pattern, but still no joy. (the asterix is on the next line, but the site reformatted it.)

4

Then you need to show what you’re actually doing, not a similar representation. Details matter.

5

I solved the issue.

Instead of trying to include, I excluded the file and then added an ignore case variable. It worked.

Thanks for your help.