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Hi Barry.
I'm not really familiar with the various symbols used to create file exclusions, and the help files gave some specific examples but didn't seem to address my need exactly. Can you tell me how to exclude any file from any drive that includes the term "cache" somewhere in the file name?
No matter how much I try to ferret them out, every time I run a backup I see file names scrolling by that contain "cache." I'd like to just get rid of them all at once.
Thanks

Asterisk means any characters so to exclude all files containing cache you add:

*cache*.*

The ‘.*’ is needed to signify any filename extension.

Barry

Okay, thanks. (A lot simpler than it looks.)

Hi Barry.
I've put *cache*.* in the "exclusions" tab under "select files for backup" and I've been running backups like that but I just found out that I'm still backing up cache files.
Specifically, under C:\Users\J\AppData\Local\... all of my browsers and Thunderbird all have cache files still marked for backup.
I assume I didn't do something I need to do in addition to putting that entry under the exclusions tab. Can you tell me what?
Thanks

Hi John

I just read my previous reply and it was incomplete, sorry about that.

*cache*.* will exclude files with cache in the name.

Folders need to be specified by using \

\cache\ will exclude all folders called cache
\*cache\ all folders ending with cache
\cache*\ all folders starting with cache
\*cache*\ excludes all folders with cache in the name.

Alternatively navigate to the cache folders, right click the folder and choose Exclude Files and Sub Folders.

I hope this clears things up a bit

Cheers

Barry

Okay, I'll give this a try and see how it does.

Barry wrote:
Alternatively navigate to the cache folders, right click the folder and choose Exclude Files and Sub Folders.

This is the way I've done it in the past, and boy, that's a never-ending task! That's why I decided I had to find a way to automate things.
Thanks again.