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Better documentation of file ignore patterns.

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Klaas Freitag 2013-12-10 09:35:18 +01:00
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Ignored Files
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ownCloud Client will refuse to sync the following files:
ownCloud Client supports that certain files are excluded or ignored from
the synchronization. There are a couple of system wide file patterns which
come with the client. Custom patterns can be added by the user.
ownCloud Client will ignore the following files:
* Files matched by one of the pattern in :ref:`ignoredFilesEditor-label`
* Files containing characters that do not work on certain file systems.
Currently, these characters are: `\, :, ?, *, ", >, <, |`
* Files starting in ``.csync_journal.db`` (reserved for journalling)
* Files starting in ``.csync_journal.db*`` (reserved for journalling)
If a pattern is checkmarked in the `ignoredFilesEditor-label` (or if a line in
the exclude file starts with the character `]` directly followed
by the file pattern), files matching this pattern are considered fleeting
meta data. These files are ingored and *removed* by the client if found
in the sync folder. This is suitable for meta files created by some
applications that have no sustainable meaning.
If a pattern is ending with character `/` it means that only directories are
matched. The pattern is only applied for directory components of the checked
filename.
The file pattern match is done with the unix function fnmatch which implements
shell wildcard patterns. Note that this is not full regular expression support
but similar to what can be done on the command line to match files.
The Sync Journal
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