quick question about ignores

[tomasz86]

I would suggest testing your patterns with an unshared local folder. Basically, just create a new folder without sharing it with any other device, add your patterns to it, and then copy each of the file types into it one by one. You will be able to see in the Web GUI whether the local state has changed or not (i.e. the ignored files should be removed from the local state).

[gadget]

@rzilla2

ok thanks for that, makes sense. that said, i’m still struggling to figure out what’s wrong with my syntax that’s allowing offending files through the ignores though. let’s simplify this to just two devices. the folder on my primary/NAS has the following:

somehow though, file types OTHER THAN those in the de-facto whitelist above are getting through… for example z64 and nds and p8 are all getting through but, inexplicably, n3ds and rvz are not!!!

You haven’t mentioned what operating systems and/or filesystems are in use, but note that if your NAS is Unix/Linux-based (pretty common) and some of other devices are Windows, Android… using vFAT / exFAT… etc. the following two ignore patterns are not equivalent:

!*.z64
!*.Z64

If you want to catch both lowercase, uppercase and mixed-case file/folder names, you’ll need to tell Syncthing to ignore case:

(?i)!*.z64