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Where is "include subdirectories" checkbox?

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When you browse and select folders to include or exclude how do you specify the subject above?

Related: on browsing for included drives, I unchecked everything on the second physical drive, but it backed up both of them anyway on my very first backup. (XP, desktop, multi drive letteron on HD, external Seagate. I clicked "Backup Full PC" or something, not sure *) Is the first backup different than other ones? The screen looks COMPLETELY different now after the first backup completed. For example, on the first time, I never found anyplace to do options. Now it's a button on the bottom of the screen.

* I can't get the screen that came up for my first backup to appear again. IIRC the first backup showed something like this across the screen, giant buttons -
Backup Full PC on the left
Clone on center
Cloud on right

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Are you using 2016?

2015 and 2016 both have this entire PC backup option. If you select this, all disks' information will be backed up. If you want to backup select disk(s) or partition(s), you have to choose the disk and partitions option:

(a) click on add new backup  (this kicks off an "entire PC" backup wizard),

(b) click on the left "entire PC", then select "disk and partitions"

Thanks for responding. I'm 2016, just bought it. OH...I see what you mean, hit the PLUS SIGN. Yes, that's the screen I haven't been able to relocate. The @#$%^%#@^!! icon-based takeover of the world is destroying desktop productivity! * Anyway, good solution to that part of my question.

I still can't tell if excluding \foo\ also excludes its subdirectories, if someone knows, TIA.

* (Forgive me but rant on: those cute little Android icons are 15 times slower to mentally process than just laying out all the choices in menus! For desktops, keep menus going, or let the user choose that interface. Just because Microsoft is too dense to understand how humans think and act...Acronis and other 3rd parties are smarter than those cretins, right? At very least, let me arrow through the left edge icons, not have to click each one to see what it is, or position and wait for flyover text. At 3 seconds per positioning and flyover, it takes 18 seconds to process the left edge icons. If they were text, I'd read all 7 in about 1 second. 15+ times faster! Just like ribbon interfaces are slower to process and are devastatingly deproductive. Rant off!)

+1 for the rant.  The keyboard/pen is always mighter than the mouse/sword.

Excluding a folder from the backup task includes any subfolders and files within that folder.