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Any way to include a specific folder?

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I have a computer game were each scenario one create is located in a folder named Scenarios. In the Scenarios folder each scenario is created in a separate subfolder for each scenario. This folder is saved under each route meaning, many routes, many Scenarios folders and subfolders.

The file path for one of the folder is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\RailWorks\Content\Routes\7ebb30c4-14dd-4968-906a-7904fde0dd46\Scenarios

That´s the problem, long file paths for each Scenarios folder...

Selecting each Scenarios folder is very hard to do due to a bug that make the UI slow as molasses after a while and makes TI very prone to chrashes. I filed a report one year ago and it has not yet been resolved. Case no 02549033.

Question:
In TI2017 i can Exclude files and folders and that almost works to backup *only* the Scenarios folders and it´s subfolders. But, is it possible to just Include specific folders such as "Include all the Scenarios folders and it´s subfolders and then exclude the rest.". There are to many steps and pitfalls with Excluding files and folders in this specific case. Or, did i miss something? :)

 

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Roger, please see webpage: Complete Guide to Symbolic Links (symlinks) on Windows or Linux which may be a better way of handling this issue.

You could create a symbolic link as follows:

Open a Windows Command prompt as Administrator this issue the following command.

mklink /h c:\Scenarios C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\RailWorks\Content\Routes\7ebb30c4-14dd-4968-906a-7904fde0dd46\Scenarios

This will create a hard symbolic link to your very long folder path as simply C:\Scenarios that you can create a backup task for.

If all your Routes are stored as subfolders below that folder, then you could modify the command to start from level, i.e. 

mklink /h c:\Routes C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\RailWorks\Content\Routes

Thanks for the answer! I would have preferred to do it all in TI2017. :)

Excluding files/folders works at the moment, so i will survive!