{"id":347,"date":"2025-02-11T15:42:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/?p=347"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:52:00","slug":"synchronizing-windows-user-folders-with-resilio-sync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"Synchronizing Windows User Folders with Resilio Sync"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When syncing a windows User profile folder, there are some paths withing the profile folder that will not sync, or are not desirable to sync. To exclude these folders, take the following steps:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Add the user profile to Resilio, but don&#8217;t connected to the destination system yet.<\/li>\n<li>In the shared folder (eg. C:\\Users\\jdoe), open the \\.sync\\IgnoreList file (eg. C:\\Users\\jdoe\\.sync\\IgnoreList) in Notepad.<\/li>\n<li>Add the following lines to the file:\n<pre># Hidden folders\r\n\\.*\r\n\r\n# Application Data\r\n\\AppData\r\n\r\n# Registry Hives\r\n\\NTUSER.*\r\n\\ntuser.*\r\n\r\n# Compatibility Hard Links\r\n\\Application Data\r\n\\Cookies\r\n\\Local Settings\r\n\\My Documents\r\n\\NetHood\r\n\\PrintHood\r\n\\Recent\r\n\\SendTo\r\n\\Start Menu\r\n\\Templates\r\n\\Documents\\My Music\r\n\\Documents\\My Pictures\r\n\\Documents\\My Videos\r\n\r\n# Misc Folders\r\n\\Saved Games\r\n\\Searches<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Restart Resilio Sync<\/li>\n<li>Connect the folder in Resilio on the destination system.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you want to include select folders within the AppData folder, you can use the whitelist prefix (!). Whitelist rules take override other rules, so when you want to whitelist a specific child folder, you need to include additional ignore rules for sibling folders.\u00a0 For instance, if you want to whitelist the \\AppData\\Roaming\\Notepad++ folder, you need to add the following:<\/p>\n<pre>!\\AppData                    # Whitelist the AppData folder\r\n\\AppData\\*                   # Ignore all subfolders\r\n!\\AppData\\Roaming            # Except this one\r\n\\AppData\\Roaming\\*           # Ignore all subfolders of Roaming\r\n!\\AppData\\Roaming\\Notepad++  # Except this one<\/pre>\n<h3>References:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/help.resilio.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/205458165-Ignoring-files-in-Sync-Ignore-List\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/help.resilio.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/205458165-Ignoring-files-in-Sync-Ignore-List<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/platform.resilio.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/115001069950-Ignoring-and-whitelisting-files-on-Agents-File-and-folder-name-filter#whitelist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/platform.resilio.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/115001069950-Ignoring-and-whitelisting-files-on-Agents-File-and-folder-name-filter#whitelist<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When syncing a windows User profile folder, there are some paths withing the profile folder that will not sync, or are not desirable to sync. To exclude these folders, take the following steps:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","tag-resilio-sync"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}