Folder monitor

Anne Tammelin

• December 04, 2020 05:40

We have a quite large root directory to transfers. Files are all types in sizes and names. Folder monitor was fine until we got few directories that should not be monitored. Is there a way to choose all of /ftproot but exlude subdirectory /itsrainingcatsnow among them. Thank you!

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  Ian Butteriss

  Product Support

  • December 04, 2020 13:59

  Hi Anne, thanks for your question. You may be able to write a regular expression to do that. I will open a support case and send you details after testing.

  Ian

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  Ian Butteriss

  Product Support

  • December 04, 2020 20:04

  You can add this regular expression to filter out the folder you want. This is using your example of itsrainingcats:

  [A-Ea-e]\:\\ftproot(?!\\itsrainingcats\\)[a-z0-9\]+\\[a-z\.]+

  This assumes you're filtering on a local drive letter (any drive letter A through E) and that your subfolder is right off 'ftproot', eg C:\ftproot\itsrainingcats\

  If you need to exclude more than one folder, you can do so by creating an 'or' array. This example excludes both folder 'itsrainingcats' as well as folder 'anddogs'

  [A-Ea-e]\:\\ftproot(?!\\(itsrainingcats|anddogs)\\)[a-z0-9\]+\\[a-z\.]+

  You probably will want to test this on a test server, or on a test folder tree before implementing on your production instance as I can't guarantee that we missed something.

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