OK, so please post a real-life example (full command).

Well, that was an example, which doesn't work for me and I need to make it work to do something more complicated. What I want is to synchronize about 20 folders at the same time. I don't want to go to each folder to run synchronization and I don't want to synchronize the root folder, because that takes over 2 minutes (there is like 2000 folders).

martin wrote:

JanM wrote:

Here is the problem I am struggling with right now:
I want to only synchronize files in directory \lib\pkp\, so I set File mask to:
\lib\pkp\
This will not find any changes in this directory, but it will report changes in the main directory \.

For that you do not use file mask (technically speaking, you can, but it's very ineffective). To specify a root of synchronization, use parameters of the synchronize command (or keepuptodate).

JanM wrote:

Here is the problem I am struggling with right now:
I want to only synchronize files in directory \lib\pkp\, so I set File mask to:
\lib\pkp\
This will not find any changes in this directory, but it will report changes in the main directory \.

For that you do not use file mask (technically speaking, you can, but it's very ineffective). To specify a root of synchronization, use parameters of the synchronize command (or keepuptodate).

I spent hours trying to figure our how the masks are working, but with a very little success. Either they are completely counterintuitive or they are just not working properly.

Here is the problem I am struggling with right now:
I want to only synchronize files in directory \lib\pkp\, so I set File mask to:
\lib\pkp\
This will not find any changes in this directory, but it will report changes in the main directory \.

Any help would be appreciated.

Use:
*/; irr*
See documentation.

Hello,

we use WinSCP (4.1.9) to synchronize a local and a remote FTP directory which is working fine so far. Now we got some new subdirectories where we have problems with synchronization. We want to synchronize every file that begins with "irr" in every directory.

The problem is that it doesn't synchronize the files in subdirectories, only in the root directory.

Here's our script:

I also tried the following with the same result:

It only works if I synchronize the subfolders directly.
What am I doing wrong?