Exclusions Not Working
I just upgraded to True Image 2015 and find that the "Exclusions" don't work. That is if I add a folder to be excluded from a backup, the exclusion is ignored and the folder is backed up. To keep it simple, one of the default exclusions is "$RECYCLE.BIN". This means to me that the Recycle Bin should be excluded from all backups, but it is backed up. In checking further, I find that none of the default entries and those that I add are excluded. This means that backups are larger and take longer than they should while backing useless garbage. Has anyone else run into this problem, if so have you found a solution.

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Gerald, I would recommend raising this issue in the ATIH 2016 Forum rather here in the 2015 one.
There have been several users reporting issues with exclusions recently though it is difficult to get to the bottom of the issue without more information.
Please download a copy of the Log File Viewer app from the link in my signature below, this can be used to check for the messages being posted in the Service log files that your backup task created, and which may hold some clues as to why your exclusions are not being actioned. You are welcome to post log files to the forum for help.
Note: If ATIH encounters any bad sectors on your source disk drive, it may switch to doing a sector-by-sector backup instead of normal, in which case all exclusions are ignored by virtue of how sector-by-sector operates.
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To Steve Smith:
Wow - a 6 year old thread....
This solved a 6 year old problem for me - I've been dealing with off/on "exclusions not working" forever.. After reading your post, I scanned my disc, found errors, rebooted/fixed and and boom: exclusions work again!
Thank you for the explanation!
-Bob
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Robert Belusko wrote:To Steve Smith:
Wow - a 6 year old thread....
This solved a 6 year old problem for me - I've been dealing with off/on "exclusions not working" forever.. After reading your post, I scanned my disc, found errors, rebooted/fixed and and boom: exclusions work again!
Thank you for the explanation!
-Bob
Hello Robert.
Thanks for sharing what helped to solve the issue.
Feel free to participate anytime.
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