Snyc only one single folder

[ghost]

Hi i like to Sync only one folder documents/study/ how can i do this what i have to do? it should only download this folder to my linux system

hope someone can help me

thx Andy

[derrix060]

Hello @bwkiller, as was written in #28, you can put it on the "ignore_v2.txt"-file.

you can put something like this:

/foo/bar/** # Exclude everything
!/foo/bar/documents/study # Except this folder

[ghost]

Thx for your quick help i tried everything but no chance! that is what i did

I tried it but i dont kown what i made wrong :(

[hsghost]

Basically, your problem lies to the double asterisk. In this case you should not use double asterisk. Rather, a single asterisk should be employed.

By definition, dual asterisk means "everything in this directory and under any of its subdirectories". Well, that is too strong a rule that will ignore anything under a subdirectory even if you create an exclusion for the subdirectory itself. So if you write,

/** !/foo

You'll end up with an empty directory foo under the root.

Rather, a single asterisk suffice your goal here. With,

/* !/foo /foo/* !/foo/bar !/foo/bar/*

You'll end up with everything within /foo/bar to be synced only. Not that you have to explicitly add an exclusion for foo like !/foo, so that this directory itself won't get ignored. Otherwise, !/foo/bar alone will not do anything as the upper level foo is already ignored and doesn't exist in your local repository.