Exclude folders/drives

I've installed itunes for my daughter ipod. It searches and includes ALL music files in ALL folders in ALL drives of my computer, there is a way to exclude folders and drives?
Thank you.

no, that drive is excluded. how is the drive formatted? the drive needs to be formatted mac os extended in order for TM to be able to back it up. if it's formatted something else like FAT, TM will automatically exclude it.

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Time Machine creates backups from excluded folders. Tried everything

I configured TM to exclude some folders that I do not want it to backup. A few days ago, all of a sudden, it told me that there is not enough space on my backup disk (Airport Extreme with USB hard drive). I found out that it had deleted the old backups and tried to backup also the folders that I excluded.
I already did:
- deleted the entire backup hard disk using disk utility
- deleted TM preferences
- setup TM from scratch
- Moved the excluded folders to other locations and renamed it (added the folders once again to the exclude list after that, of course)
- repaired file permissions
- repaired volume after having started the system from the 10.6. install DVD.
When I start the backup after resetting it, it shows at first a correct amount of data (approx. 90 GB, which fits the real amount of data that I want it to backup). But when it reaches 100% of the 90 GB after several hours, it does not stop: It continuously adds GB by GB to both values "90 GB of 90 GB copied" in the status window. The status bar keeps showing 100%. When I stop the backup manually and look into the sparsebundle, I find all the data that I excluded before in the TM preferenes.
I have no idea what to do now. I tried a new backup setup from scratch already three times.
P.S.: Im not new to OS X and TM. I have used TM for years in 10.5 without any problems. It seems that such problems occur after the upgrade to 10.6. BTW, I did a clean install of SL, not an update from 10.5.

miflo wrote:
In the meantime I fixed the problem by re-installing the Combo update for 10.6.2. It then has been working for a few days.
But today, it deleted all my old backups and then told me that there is not enough space available. It would need approx. 150GB for about 10MB that I have "really" changed on the hard disk.
Since I have upgraded to SL, I only had problems, problems and problems. It's TM, it's the over-all performance, it's the stability of many applications... I cannot understand why Apple has not managed to fix these annoying bugs for so many months. Apple, what's going on there? Are there no researchers available for OSX since everyone is working on the iPhone?
First, you are not talking to Apple here. This is a user-to-user forum.
Second, several million folks are using Snow Leopard without significant problems. Whatever is going wrong on your Mac is not common. It is something in your setup. The fact that loading the "combo" update helped the TM problem is a good indication of that. Apparently, something in your installation of OSX got corrupted. The other problems you mention may have a similar cause.
It's not clear from your first post whether you did verify/repair disk (not permissions) on both your TM and internal HDs. If you didn't, do them both again.
If that doesn't help, I'd recommend reinstalling OSX from your SL disc, applying the "combo" again, then repairing permissions.
Your first post says you did a "clean" install. How did you get your data back onto your system?
The best way will probably be to go back to 10.5. I think it's the only solution that is available yet.
That's your call, of course, and not an easy transition after you've been on SL for a while.

Why Time machine don't exclude folders?

I use time capsule for backup, when i exclude some folder on time machine preferences this folders don't skip the backup, i have same problem with an usb hard drive.
I was formatted my Time capsule but the problem remains. I was deleted com.apple.TimeMachine.plist but nothing....
I don't understand...

Same problem here. I can exclude folders on the root but not inside users' home. Things I've done:
- multiple time machine full reset
- os reinstall
- create a new users from scratch.
No way!
I have a macbook pro 2011 with Mac Os 10.6.7 (case insensitive installation).
I've tried to install 10.6.7 combo update but system refuses to do because not compatible.
During backup TM reaches the expected backup size and after it continues counting GBs over the expected size. If I don't stop the backup it reaches 220 GB despite I've excluded everything but the Desktop folder that has only some files.
Log is following:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Untitled/Backups.backupdb
2011-05-28 00:53:06.742 FindSystemFiles[2390:907] Looking for system packages
2011-05-28 00:53:10.533 FindSystemFiles[2390:907] Using system path cache.
Backup content size: 229.8 GB excluded items size: 228.8 GB for volume Macintosh HD
No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.18 GB requested (including padding), 232.27 GB available

Exclude folders in a search with smart folders

setting up a smart folder or doing a search, using the "kind", the only choice is "kind is". I would like to exclude folders. How could you do that? Or if I say kind is documents it finds text files but excludes Excel files. Basically I want everything but folders.

When you bring up the Find window, just leave kind as any, then in the "Search for:" box at the top type in your search term, and also add what you want to exclude with "NOT" and whatever it may be. Thus if I wanted to find all files containing "geranium" in the file name or content, I would enter this:
geranium NOT Folder
I would get all files with geranium in the file name, plus all html files mentioning geranium, as well as text files with the word in the content, but would not get any folders. If I wanted to also exclude certain other things I would arrange window in List view, click on the "Kind" column and note what other files are showing up that I'm not interested in. For instance, suppose I don't want aliases either. I would then amend my Search for field to exclude those as well:
geranium NOT Folder NOT alias
You can refine things to your heart's content using this method.
Francine
Francine
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Exclude Folders from showing in Windows Explorer Search Results

When using Windows 7 Explorer search function, both folders and files are displayed in the results. I need to have a way to see only the files/documents not the folders. I still want the files in subfolders to be included, I just don't need
to see the folder name appear in the list as this makes the results much to long. Is there any way to do this?

That's quick :)
Anyways, you can also refer this URL : http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-tms/how-do-exclude-folders-from-windows-search/58f845f6-d6fa-449e-a921-52be453038f1
Just add a minus sign, that's it..
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Time Machine Feature Request: Rules to exclude Folders/Files

Hi.
I think its important to have rules for excluding folders/files from tm-backup in the next version of OS X (Snow Leopard).
Example: "Do not backup Folders/files which name begins with a specified character + location is "desktop".
So i have a better control of which files are in the backup. For example temporary big files on my desktop.
Best regards, Andre

Well, it's really no secret, macmatic , and the page I linked above derives from this one that contains many more feedback page links:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/

AppXray and exclude folders in BEA Workshop 3.2

Hi,
I'm trying to exclude some folders in the AppXray validation
step.
Well, my exluded folders are still taken into account...
I've added these folders in the exlude tabs of the
"validation -appxray" property of the project, but no effects.
Do I miss something ?

Hi Oliver,
Thanks for clarifying the issue.
If the folders you are trying to exclude, contain java syntax error, they will continue to be displayed in the problems view. Adding them to AppXRay's excluded folders will not have any effect on them. AppXRay is restricted to JSP errors.
If the errors are in other projects which are part of the same workspace, you could right click the project and close them. If a project is closed, the errors will no longer be listed in the problems view.
Hope this helps.
Raj

Can't exclude folders from Time Machine backups

I am trying to exclude Folders from backups to preserve space.
Go into Time Machine preferences and Options - I can select + to Exclude Folders, and select a Folder, but on then selecting to Exclude nothing gets returned to the "Exclude these items from backups" form.
Help!

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
Mails are stored on ~/Library/Mail, being ~ your user folder. As you are running Snow Leopard, it's easy to exclude your mails from your Time Machine backup.
Open System Preferences > Time Machine > Options, and add ~/Library/Mail to excluded items, so the next backup won't include mails. Note that you have to go to your user folder, in order to access to this directory

Time Capsule Ignoring my 'Excluded' Folders

Hi,
This is my first time backing up with Time Capsule / Time Machine. I excluded quite a lot of stuff that I have backed up elsewhere -- I have a 140 gb drive and the TM settings say "Total Included: 75 gb." However, when I start my backup, the progress bar always says "XX out of 131 gb."
It could be that the progress indicator is wrong, and it will quit once it reaches the needed 75 gb. But it's going REALLY slow - like 8 gb in an hour - and I don't want to wait that long. If it's going this slow, I've read I may want to re-format the drive. But it's my friend's TC and I don't want to mess with her files already on the drive so I'm not going to do that.
Is there any way to just get it to pay attention to my settings?
Thanks,
Josh

I'm having exactly the same problem. I have a brand-new 1TB Time Capsule, and the first time I tried to back up to it I excluded some folders and ran Time Machine. The Time Machine menu was initially correct, saying
"Backing Up: x of of 40GB"
Unfortunately, it didn't stop at 40GB, and the menu eventually said
"Backing Up: 50.53GB of 50.53GB"
"Backup Up: 80.02GB of 80.02GB"
etcetera, until it had backed up my entire computer. I went into Time Machine ("Enter Time Machine") and confirmed that it had indeed made backups of the folders and files that I had excluded.
After that, it made incremental backups (I assume it was still ignoring the exclusions). However, when I changed the excluded files, it thinks it has to back up virtually the whole computer again, the Time Machine status now reads
"Backing Up: 15.53 GB of 89.16GB"
This, again, looks like the correct calculated amount, but it will probably continue to back up past that all the way to 105 GB (my whole hard drive) again. I'll know tomorrow.
I know this problem is related to this Time Capsule, as previously I was using Time Machine with an external hard drive with no problem.
I searched for solutions to this problem and found Pondini's suggestion of deleting the Time Capusule .plist file. I did this, and deleted my whole sparsebundle file as well for good measure, but it didn't fix the problem.
I can't let Time Machine back up my whole computer because I have a VMware Windows virtual machine and Time Machine would try to back up the whole ~15 GB file every hour every time I go into Windows.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

After a clean install (accidental) & restore try-3 folders/drives exist

My hard drive was totally wiped out.
My computer guy tried to retrive files, not so successful really, but now I have multiple folders, files, users, hard drives etc. and I don't know how to fix this. It's driving me crazy.
If a third generation in the column view of the hard drive is deleted, does that delete the original too? Sorry I can't include a screen shot. I have cloned my hard drive to an external (which is now full) and need to clean that up.
I have run disk utility, and a shareware called Xupport, nothing happened.
I must have five iTunes folders and have lost again all my purchased, except I think they are showing in the smart folders. I don't know which one of these is safe to delete - is there away to tell?
Someone please help me... please!
Thanks

the multiple folders were most likely created by the program your computer guy used to restore your info, and he didn't bother to go though them all and delete what was left. one thing I don't get: "I have multiple folders, files, users, hard drives etc." HARD DRIVES??? are they real drive images? or just folders with the same name and icon?? click it and hit get info from the file menu. If it says "volume" next to Kind, then you've got a bigger problem. those folders are the aftermath of the restore, Personally, i would have gone though them all to make sure you didn't have multiple items, but then again, it would have cost you more time. It's a tedious task, but you can do it
P.S., cheking folder sizes helps a lot.

How to set FileSystemWatcher powershell script to exclude folders within the root path being monitored?

All,
I want to use a pre-fab script to monitor the OS folders on a Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controller and send any changes into the Event Log. But there are two folders in the file path I want to exclude because changes to them would fill up the Event Logs
too quickly. Thus, I want to monitor all folder in C:\Windows but want to exclude C:\Windows\Temp and C:\Windows\debug.
The script I want to use is below.
#This script uses the .NET FileSystemWatcher class to monitor file events in folder(s).
#The advantage of this method over using WMI eventing is that this can monitor sub-folders.
#The -Action parameter can contain any valid Powershell commands.
I have just included two for example.
#The script can be set to a wildcard filter, and IncludeSubdirectories can be changed to $true.
#You need not subscribe to all three types of event. All three are shown for example.
# Version 1.1
$folder = 'C:\Windows' # Enter the root path you want to monitor.
$filter = '*.*' # You can enter a wildcard filter here.
# In the following line, you can change 'IncludeSubdirectories to $true if required.
$fsw = New-Object IO.FileSystemWatcher $folder, $filter -Property @{IncludeSubdirectories = $true;NotifyFilter = [IO.NotifyFilters]'FileName, LastWrite'}
# Here, all three events are registerd. You need only subscribe to events that you need:
Register-ObjectEvent $fsw Created -SourceIdentifier FileCreated -Action {
$name = $Event.SourceEventArgs.Name
$changeType = $Event.SourceEventArgs.ChangeType
$timeStamp = $Event.TimeGenerated
Write-Host "The file '$name' was $changeType at $timeStamp" -fore green
Out-File -FilePath c:\scripts\filechange\outlog.txt -Append -InputObject "The file '$name' was $changeType at $timeStamp"}
Register-ObjectEvent $fsw Deleted -SourceIdentifier FileDeleted -Action {
$name = $Event.SourceEventArgs.Name
$changeType = $Event.SourceEventArgs.ChangeType
$timeStamp = $Event.TimeGenerated
Write-Host "The file '$name' was $changeType at $timeStamp" -fore red
Out-File -FilePath c:\scripts\filechange\outlog.txt -Append -InputObject "The file '$name' was $changeType at $timeStamp"}
Register-ObjectEvent $fsw Changed -SourceIdentifier FileChanged -Action {
$name = $Event.SourceEventArgs.Name
$changeType = $Event.SourceEventArgs.ChangeType
$timeStamp = $Event.TimeGenerated
Write-Host "The file '$name' was $changeType at $timeStamp" -fore white
Out-File -FilePath c:\scripts\filechange\outlog.txt -Append -InputObject "The file '$name' was $changeType at $timeStamp"}
# To stop the monitoring, run the following commands:
# Unregister-Event FileDeleted
# Unregister-Event FileCreated
# Unregister-Event FileChanged
Is there a command line I can use to exclude thos two folders?
Thanks

First, thank you to everyone who has been helping me. I've gotten a little bit further in what I need to do. I still have two problems that I really need help in sorting out:
1. The script will run on Windows 7 with no errors but will not run on a Server 2008 R2 Domain Controller. On the DC, I get an error for the SourceIdentifier: "A parameter cannot be found that mataches parameter name 'SourceIdentifier'."
2. Even though the script runs on Windows 7 with no errors, I tested it by making changes to the Temp and debug folders and the changes were still being recorded in the logs.
A copy of the updated script I am running is below:
#This script uses the .NET FileSystemWatcher class to monitor file events in folder(s).
#The advantage of this method over using WMI eventing is that this can monitor sub-folders.
#The -Action parameter can contain any valid Powershell commands. I have just included two for example.
#The script can be set to a wildcard filter, and IncludeSubdirectories can be changed to $true.
#You need not subscribe to all three types of event. All three are shown for example.
# Version 1.1
$folder = 'C:\Windows' # Enter the root path you want to monitor.
$filter = '*.*' # You can enter a wildcard filter here.
# In the following line, you can change 'IncludeSubdirectories to $true if required.
$fsw = New-Object IO.FileSystemWatcher $folder, $filter -Property @{IncludeSubdirectories = $true;NotifyFilter = [IO.NotifyFilters]'FileName, LastWrite'}
# Here, all three events are registerd. You need only subscribe to events that you need:
$Script:excludedItems = 'C:\Windows\Temp','C:\Windows\debug'
Register-ObjectEvent $fsw Created -SourceIdentifier FileCreated -Action {
If ($excludedItems -notcontains $Event.SourceEventArgs.Name) {
$name = $Event.SourceEventArgs.Name
$changeType = $Event.SourceEventArgs.ChangeType
$timeStamp = $Event.TimeGenerated
Write-Host "The file '$name' was $changeType at $timeStamp" -fore green
Out-File -FilePath c:\scripts\filechange\outlog.txt -Append -InputObject "The file '$name' was $changeType at $timeStamp"} }
Register-ObjectEvent $fsw Deleted -SourceIdentifier FileDeleted -Action {
If ($excludedItems -notcontains $Event.SourceEventArgs.Name) {
$name = $Event.SourceEventArgs.Name
$changeType = $Event.SourceEventArgs.ChangeType
$timeStamp = $Event.TimeGenerated
Write-Host "The file '$name' was $changeType at $timeStamp" -fore red
Out-File -FilePath c:\scripts\filechange\outlog.txt -Append -InputObject "The file '$name' was $changeType at $timeStamp"} }
Register-ObjectEvent $fsw Changed -SourceIdentifier FileChanged -Action {
If ($excludedItems -notcontains $Event.SourceEventArgs.Name) {
$name = $Event.SourceEventArgs.Name
$changeType = $Event.SourceEventArgs.ChangeType
$timeStamp = $Event.TimeGenerated
Write-Host "The file '$name' was $changeType at $timeStamp" -fore white
Out-File -FilePath c:\scripts\filechange\outlog.txt -Append -InputObject "The file '$name' was $changeType at $timeStamp"} }
# To stop the monitoring, run the following commands:
# Unregister-Event FileDeleted
# Unregister-Event FileCreated
# Unregister-Event FileChanged
Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

TM backs up excluded folders - fixed in 10.6.2?

When I used Snow Leopard (10.6 and 10.6.1) I found that Time Machine backed up folders that had been excluded - in Options "Do not back up".
Other people have also reported this problem.
Because off this - and other problems - I reinstalled Leopard.
Has the 10.6.2 update cured this Time Machine problem?
Thanks for you help.
Richard

This is not a general problem. We have seen it a few times, in both Leopard and Snow Leopard, due to a corrupted preferences file. Try a "full reset" per #A4 in the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip* at the top of this forum.

Exclude a drive from Import

I have a MicroSD card in my computer (Surface Pro) as extra storage. When I do an import, LR (5.3, under Win 8.1) starts by scanning that drive and creating thumbnails for the image files there. The card that I actually want to import from is another SD card.
Is there any way to tell LR to ignore a certain drive from import? It's a small annoyance but it would make life easier.

Thanks for your replies. We wrote some custom code to allow an end user to unlock his SAP accounts (as well as Active Directory and AS400). However, we want to exclude SAP from password management (and from account creation management) at this time because SAP has different requirements for passwords (8 character limit for the version we use) compared to Active Directory, and the bosses don't want to change the password policy for Active Directory to conform to SAP. For the present we will use CUA to manage SAP passwords, roles and activities.
Thanks
Douglas

Time Capsule not excluding folders

All of a sudden, my Time Capsule doesn't exclude the folders I tell to do so from backup. I have this huge folder I just prefer not to copy to Time Capsule, and even though I have selected it to exclude it, then, in the end, system doesn't listen to me and begins copying everything, including that folder. Why is that? How can I fix this? Thank you all.

Are you sure you followed the instructions completely?
Has it completed the backup? If so, use one of the apps in #A2 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting to see exactly what's getting backed-up.
If not, or if Time Machine is trying to back up everything, see #D7 there.
Message was edited by: Pondini -- a typo: it should be #D7, not #B7.

Can I customize "all my files" and exclude folders?

A lot of folders that I don't want to include. Like my music which I always browse through iTunes.

Dawsonj,
I was experiencing the same problem with Microsoft Office results flooding my "All My Files" view – but was able to fix it using redisant's suggestion above, by customizing my Spotlight preferences.
Step-by-step:
Open "System Preferences..." in the Apple menu.
Click the "Spotlight" Icon to open Spotlight Preferences.
Change from the "Search Results" tab to the "Privacy" tab. This pane lets you specify folders that should be excluded from Spotlight search (and also from "All My Files").
Click the "+" button in the lower left to add a new list item.
Navigate to your "Microsoft User Data" folder (by default, this is <user>/Documents/Microsoft User Data) and select to add it to the list of excluded directories. (You can also navigate to the folder in the finder, and then drag the folder directly into the list view.)
That's it!
"All My Files" should be sane again. :-)
Best,
Jason

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