Exclude Directories

Sorry if this is just me being too stupid, but for the life of me I am not able to exclude specific subdirectories from synchronizing. I managed to exclude several top level dirs, but now want to exclude the folder 'cache' with all files in it as well as all its subdirectories. Cache itself is a subdirectory of 'website', so the mask should include

;website/cache/

It does, it looks ok, but it doesn't do anything, means all files and folders found in 'cache' are still synced.

I tried website/cache, website/cache/* and so on, no effect at all.

Help!

See https://winscp.net/eng/docs/file_mask#directory

Important point is:

The path mask is matched against full path, i.e. not against path relative path to a root of file transfer or synchronization

So either use just the directory name cache/ (what excludes all cache directories anywhere).
Or use a mask that matches a full path, i.e. /home/user/website/cache/ or */website/cache/.

That worked, thanks a lot!

It might be useful to add this important information to the help in that specific dialog.

One more question: is it possible to exclude links from synchronization? My server runs on Linux, my computer on Windows, so I have all links found on the server manually added (via mk link /d) to my local copy. That works, but everytime I sync WinSCP stumbles over the links as it cannot handle (or translate) them correctly. I don't expect it to do that, but it should be possible then to exclude those links somehow.

Or should I add them as files into the file exclude mask?

noftpanymore wrote:

It might be useful to add this important information to the help in that specific dialog.

The article on file masks in linked from
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/ui_editmask
I have just added one more explicit link.

One more question: is it possible to exclude links from synchronization? My server runs on Linux, my computer on Windows, so I have all links found on the server manually added (via mk link /d) to my local copy. That works, but everytime I sync WinSCP stumbles over the links as it cannot handle (or translate) them correctly. I don't expect it to do that, but it should be possible then to exclude those links somehow.

Can you please elaborate on the "stumble"?

Either ignores or gives error message 'no such file or directory'.

Please attach a full log file showing the problem on a very small set of files/links (using the latest version of WinSCP).