Mavericks Mail: Cannot exclude meeting.ics attachments from Smart Mailbox

I'm trying to set up a smart mailbox in Mail (Mavericks 10.9.2) that searches for all email containing attachments, but excludes all meeting invitations (attachments with name = meeting.ics). Sounds simple, but I cannot figure out how to do it.
I've got two filters in the smart mailbox:
Contains Attachments
Any attachment name > does not contain > meeting.ics
Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong and how to fix this?

Tried all the fixes described.
Mac User for >23 years.
More than 30 Macs all types purchased
Never had such a problem as with mail in mavericks.
What a disaster!
First time I have complained about an apple product.
Fix this ASAP.
Pretty please!

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