Ignoring files in Sync (Ignore List)

IgnoreList is a UTF-8 encoded text file that allows you to specify single files, paths or rules for ignoring during the synchronization job. Each line of the IgnoreList file represents a separate rule. All the files that fall under the ignore filter are not indexed and not counted in the “Size” column in Sync main view. 

If you don’t want Sync to track and sync some files in your folder, use IgnoreList. On the other hand, you can remove the default rules to get those files synced as well. 
It's advisable, but not compulsory, to have same IgnoreList on all peers so as not to get confused about difference in size of sync shares.

Please note: IgnoreList is case sensitive!

Wildcards

IgnoreList supports ‘?’ and ‘*‘ wildcard symbols. 

‘?’ substitutes any single character in a filename
‘*’ substitutes a string of several (any number) characters in a filename

For example, an IgnoreList containing the following entries:

*.pdf
abc?.txt

Paths

Each line in the ignore list can represent both a directory and a file. ​​For example, this line:

My Test

will force Sync to ignore all the files called “My Test”, as well as all the directories called “My Test”, including their content and all subdirectories.

If an ignore filter consists of 2 components, it will be applied to the root of a sync folder. For example:

ABC\CDE F

will ignore subfolder “CDE F" of “ABC" which is located only in the root of a sync folder. The folder "123\ABC\CDE F" will not be ignored.

Another example:

FOO\*

will ignore all files in the folder named “FOO” located in the root of a sync folder. Still the folder tree below FOO will be synced.
If you want to ignore all the “FOO” folders including the ones deeper than the root level, you’ll need to add a line "FOO".

The second component can have zero length, which means that presence of a delimiter character in a filter also forces the filter to be applied to the root sync folder. ​For example:

\FOO

will force Sync to ignore a "FOO" folder only in the root sync directory.

For entries containing ‘#‘ sign, for example, “#recycle“ use ‘?’ wildcard symbol instead:

?recycle

Important: on UNIX-based systems use "/" as a path separator. 

EXAMPLE

With the above mentioned ignore lines, the following folder structure will behave this way

\ABC                       //wil be synced
  CDE F                    //will not be synced, ignored by ABC\CDE F
\123                        //will be synced
  ABC                       //will be synced
   CDE                      //will be synced
   Filename.pdf        //will not be synced, ignored by *.pdf
\FOO                       //will not be synced, ignored by FOO\*
  QWER                   //will not be synced

Double asterisk allows to ignore any amount of subfolders between root folder and target folder. For example,

a/**/b

filter will ignore folders a/b, a/x/b, a/x/y/b and so on.

Delimiters

Timings and delays