Ignoring Files is Definitely Confusing...will this work?

#1

Root Folder on MAC OSX is:

/Users/Username/

Naturally there’s a crap ton of files in a standard user profile.

I want to exclude everything except certain selections.

I would presume that the following would first include everything in the Documents folder then exclude everything else relative to the root folder.

!/Documents/
**

Is that correct?

What effect would the following have versus the previous setting?

!/Documents/*
**

Lastly, if I wanted to include ONLY photoshop files from all folders and sub-folders of the user’s profile, would this be the proper ignore setting?

!*.psd  <-- Include all photoshop files in the user's entire profile folder structure.
**  <-- Exclude everything else.
#2

It will be expensive, as you still have to crawl everywhere to find those photoshop files, but it should work.

#3

Expensive regarding initial scan time, or repeated scanning?

This particular user has a habit of saving PSD files all over her profile instead of in an organized structure, and since I don’t want to pick up 50GB of data, including all of the other file types in her profile, this seems to be the only way to do it.

#4

Oh…so what if I wanted to find all *.psd files but only in specific file paths?

!/Pictures/*.psd
!/Media/*.psd
**

Would that be the way to do it?

#5

As soon as there is a “!”, everything is scanned, and there are no optimisations, even for anchored unignores.

This will mostly be ok, as filesystem watches should help out, but I suspect there is a lot of cruft in the home directory in general which will repeatedly trigger filesystem watches.

#6

So it might be better to create multiple folder syncs in the folders that matter.

#7

Maybe, you need to try it out and see what happens.

#8

In the middle of that process…just trying to avoid additional trial and error.