How to exclude content of a folder, not the folder itself

I believe excluding the path to the folder and adding \*.* would exclude everything, but would also exclude the desktop.ini file. If all the contents of the folder are of a particular file type, you could use \*.exe to exclude them, leaving the desktop.ini to be included in the backup. If there are multiple file types, then you would have to find something that is the same with all of them, such as an underscore in the file name, etc and use that during your wild card.

Example to add to exclusion list:
C:\Win7Downloads\*.exe (excludes all EXE files)
C:\Win7Downloads\*_*.exe (Excludes all EXE files with an underscore somewhere in the name)
C:\Win7Downloads\*.*_ (Excludes all .ex_ files)
Obviously changing the C:\Win7Downloads to the real location of your directory.

Hope this helps as I do it with my temp folder locations all the time.

Hope this else.

Hi Whooo,

thanks. adding \*.exe (avi, mpg, wmv, mp4, zip) should help. only big files shouldn't be in Backup.

Its not the smartest solution, but it is one.

greetz

OK, tested it. It doesn't include subfolder...