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Excluding folders without browsing to them using True Image 2013

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Hello. I have a number of folders that could be located anywhere in a directory tree. I need to exclude them from the backup. This was possible in earlier versions, like 2009. You could add the folder name and that folder and any files in it would be excluded.

When I try to exclude the folder named MyFolder using 2013, the program inserts *MyFolder* into the list. This is not what I want. I want to specify MyFolder as I did before so that MyFolder appears in the list.

It is not practical to browse the entire disk to find these folders and excluded them explicitly. Can anyone tell me whether this is still possible and, if so, how to do it?

Thanks.

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Have you tried it with a new task?
I am interpreting the * before and after MyFolder to mean a wild card would apply so a full path not necessary.
You really won't know until you try and it should only be tested on a new task--not an edit to an existing task..

Thanks for responding.

I did try it. For instance, let's say a folder contains three objects:

a file named "hisdebug",
a file named "debugthis",
a folder named "debug".

I just want to exclude the folder. The pattern True Image forces is "*debug*" and that excludes all three.

Ok. My error.
Try
*.*/myfolder/*.*

Hello Will,

the only way to exclude folders from backup in True Image 2013 by Acronis is browsing.

The behavior you described in Acronis True Image 2009 wasn't a designed one. Here is a quotation from user guide for Acronis True Image 2009:

"You can also specify the path to a folder to be excluded, for example, C:\Program Files\Common Files\. Note that the path must end with the "\" symbol, otherwise the folder will not be excluded." page 35.

Thank you.

Thanks for answering my question, Anna. That feature sure does come in handy if you have a program that generates folders named "debug" and "release" that contain a lot of large files that you don't want to backup. Too bad.

Thanks again.
Will