New to ST. I have source and target folders that have been previously synced (mirrored, really) by other software that I’m trying to leave behind (GoodSync). My purpose is not backup; the files being mirrored are my music collection, which I want to have a good portion of, but not all of (b/c insufficient storage on target SD card), available to play on my phone.
My ST setup so far:
- Source folder on MacOS is Send Only, approx. 1TB of data
- Target folder on Android is Receive Only, containing a subset of source’s data, approx. 500GB
The Ignore Pattern that I have always used with past software to filter what gets mirrored from Mac to Android is this simple rule: Any folder whose name ends in the character ≠ is skipped.
So, I put in my source folder’s Ignore Pattern this line: **≠.
I’ve tried to look up whether ≠ is a valid character in an Ignore Pattern, and Google’s AI tells me it won’t work, that Syncthing will interpret ≠ as a does not equal operator, and thus behave… er, some drastically other way than I’m intending (but don’t understand yet).
I don’t trust the AI response as authoritative, so need clarification here. I’m hoping my question is as simple as: Do I need to escape the ≠ character in the Ignore Pattern, or can I leave it as it is to achieve my purpose?