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Google Drive Account Subfolders Primary File Filter Additional File Filter Miscellaneous |
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This option defines Source properties for Google's (c) cloud storage -- Google Drive. |
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Google Drive Account |
| A name of a folder located in Google Drive cloud. |
| Select a name of a pre-configured Google Drive account from the drop down list. If there is none, or you need to create a new one, access Google Drive properties as described below. |
| Click the 'Edit' button to access the Google Drive manager where you can create and configure your Google Drive accounts. Detailed information about this can be found here. |
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Subfolders |
| Subfolder is any folder existing in Source (but not Source itself). For example, if Source is 'C:Folder', then 'C:FolderTemp' and 'C:FolderTemp1ABC' are its subfolder. Select 'No' (uncheck the checkbox) if you do not want subfolders and their content to be backed up, synchronized, monitored, etc. If subfolders are not included, task is likely to perform quicker. The following operators and wildcards may be used: | ▪ | * (asterix): means ANY number of ANY symbols |
| ▪ | ? (question mark): means ANY SINGLE ONE symbol |
| ▪ | ; (semicolon): means a delimiter which is used to separate one path from another; no space is necessary either before or after it |
The below 'Included' and 'Excluded' subfolders options work complementary. Example No.1: Included subfolders: C:FolderTemp1 Excluded subfolders: none Only the 'Temp1' subfolder with all its content will be included. | Example No.2: Included subfolders: C:FolderTemp1 Excluded subfolders: C:FolderTemp1ABC Only the 'Temp1' subfolder with all its content (except the 'ABC' subfolder) will be included. | Example No.3: Included subfolders: none Excluded subfolders: C:FolderTemp1 All subfolders with all their content will be included except the 'Temp1' subfolder. | Example No.4: Included subfolders: *,C:FolderTemp1ABC Excluded subfolders: C:FolderTemp1 All subfolders (including the 'Temp1ABC') with all their content will be included except the 'Temp1' subfolder and its other subfolder. The asterix ('*') symbol is necessary to include all subfolders other than 'Temp1ABC'. |
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| A list of subfolders which you want to include within the scope of task. The full path to a subfolder is necessary. By pressing the button at the end of the field you will open a subfolder manager. There you may add, remove, and rearrange subfolders. You can also export and import your subfolder lists. 
 'Add subfolder': opens a folder selection window that helps to select a desired subfolder.
 'Replace subfolder': opens a folder selection window that helps to select a desired subfolder that will replace the selected subfolder entry.
 'Delete subfolder': deletes the selected subfolder from the list.
 'Move up': moves the selected subfolder entry one line up the list.
 'Move down': moves the selected subfolder entry one line down the list.
 'Sort': sorts subfolders in the alphabetical order.
 'Import subfolder list': allows to load a subfolder list from a file. The file must have a TXT format with one subfolder path per line. No separators are necessary.
 'Export subfolder list': allows to export the current subfolder list into a file. The file with will be in a TXT format with one subfolder path per line without separators between.
If no sobfolders are specified, all subfolders (and equally subfolders of these subfolders and so forth) will be included. There is no need to use the asterix ('*') sign unless you use a combination of the 'Included' and 'Excluded' subfolders options (as demonstrated in the Example No.4 above). |
| A list the subfolders which you do not want to include within the scope of task. It works opposite to the 'Included subfolders' option above. Everything else is the same. |
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Primary File Filter |
Primary File Filter is the first among three filters that are available in AnyFileBackup. It is applied first, before any other filter. This filter distinguishes files by their origin (combination depends on the selected filter type): | ▪ | 'All': files of any origin are within task's scope. In other words, no filter is applied. |
| ▪ | 'New': a file that has appeared in (created in, copied to, etc.) Source after the most recent Source snapshot is within task's scope. Note, that if a file has been renamed, it is also considered as 'new' even though no other changes have happened to this file. |
| ▪ | 'Non-existent': a file that exists in Source but does not exist in Target is within task's scope. This is different from 'New' because Source might have remained unchanged, but certain files might have been deleted in Target. In this case these deleted files will be restored in Target by transferring them from Source. |
| ▪ | 'Deleted': this is opposite to 'New'. A file that disappears (deleted, etc.) from Source is within task's scope and will also be deleted from Target. Note, that as with 'New', if a file has been renamed, it is also considered as 'deleted' even though no other changes have happened to this file. |
| ▪ | 'Changed': a file whose parameters have changed is within task's scope. The relevant parameters are: |
| - | filename (not displayed and cannot be removed) |
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| Displays the name of selected filter. To select another filter click on the button at the end of the field and choose an appropriate filter. |
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Additional File Filter |
Additional File Filter distinguishes files by mask. The following operators and wildcards may be used: | ▪ | * (asterix): means ANY number of ANY symbols |
| ▪ | ? (question mark): means ANY SINGLE ONE symbol |
| ▪ | . (dot): means a delimiter which is normally used to separate a filename and a file extension |
| ▪ | ; (semicolon): means a delimiter which is used to separate one file mask from another; no space is necessary either before or after it |
Combinations of the above are also allowed: see Example No.3 below. The below examples describe a situation of a file being included. All these equally work in relation to files being excluded. | | Example No.1: | ▪ | Included files: file*.docx (that means that any file that has its filename starting with a word 'file' and has a 'docx' extension will be included) |
| ▪ | Files that will be included: file-01-01-2012.docx, file120101.docx, file1Jan2012.docx |
| ▪ | Files that will NOT be included: file01.01.12.doc |
| Example No.2: | ▪ | Included files: file??????.docx (that means that any file that has its filename starting with a word 'file', has a 'docx' extension and has any six symbols between a ford 'file' and a dot will be included) |
| ▪ | Files that will be included: file120101.docx |
| ▪ | Files that will NOT be included: file-01-01-2012.docx, file1Jan2012.docx, file01.01.12.doc |
| | | Example No.3: | ▪ | file????2012.* : any file that has its filename starting with a word 'file', has any four symbols between a word 'file' and '2012' and has any extension will be included (note that if a file has neither an extension nor a dot after '2012' it will NOT be included because a dot ('.') symbol is an essential part of its filename). |
| ▪ | file*201?.* : any file that has its filename starting with a word 'file', has any number of symbols between a word 'file' and '201', ends with any one undefined symbol and has any extension will be included (note that if a file has neither an extension nor a dot after '201[ANY-SYMBOL]' it will NOT be included because a dot ('.') symbol is an essential part of its filename). |
| ▪ | file????2012.doc? : any file that has its filename starting with a word 'file', has any four symbols between a word 'file' and '2012' and has extension that starts with 'doc' with any single one symbol at the end (or even none at all, so 'file01012012.doc' is also covered) will be included. |
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| A list of file masks that describe files to be included in the scope of task. |
| A list of file masks that describe files to be excluded from the scope of task. |
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Miscellaneous |
| Press the 'Start' button to direct AnyFileBackup to immediately launch this action. This will verify whether all above settings were entered correctly; all errors, if any, will be displayed in a log window. |
| This is a custom name that will be displayed in the Task Scenario instead of the default title. Press the 'Apply' button for changes to take effect. |