Clarification on sync_list behavior for parent directories

[romeroluisraul]

First of all, many thanks for the developing.

I do not fully understand how sync_list works.

This is my sync_list:

### exclusions

!/Documentos/Moto/Wave/Choque 20 7 23/Medico/tomografia_perito/*
!/Documentos/Moto/Wave/Choque 20 7 23/Medico/tac_pre/*

!/Documentos/proyectos/elecciones_2025/*
!/Documentos/proyectos/elecciones_pba_2025/*

!/Documentos/Trabajo_uba/Grabacion_clase_prueba_MEM/*
!/Documentos/Trabajo_uba/Web_EP_fallido2023/*

!/Documentos/Trabajo/UBA/Grabacion_clase_prueba_MEM/*
!/Documentos/Trabajo/UBA/Web_EP_fallido2023/*

!/Documentos/UBA/Ciencia de Datos/Reconocimiento visual/Tarea 1/DataSet/*
!/Documentos/UBA/Ciencia de Datos/Reconocimiento visual/Trabajo final/paper/*
!/Documentos/UBA/Ciencia de Datos/Reconocimiento visual/Trabajo final/rock/*
!/Documentos/UBA/Ciencia de Datos/Reconocimiento visual/Trabajo final/scissors/*

### inclusions

/Documentos/Trabajo
/Documentos/Trabajo_uba
/Documentos/UBA
/Documentos/proyectos
/Documentos/Moto

I expect that every directory and file inside ~/OneDrive/Documentos/Trabajo and its sub directories should be included, but when I do:

onedrive --sync --dry-run --upload-only --no-remote-delete --verbose

It's printed:

Scanning the local file system '~/OneDrive' for new data to upload
Skipping path - excluded by sync_list config: ./Documentos/Trabajo

Other similar inclusion rules such as Documentos/Moto or Documentos/UBA, which has inclusions and very-down-tree exclusions work as expected; only Documentos/Trabajo is skipped.

I do not find my mistake.

My onedrive version is v2.5.9-1+np1+1.1
My laptop has Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

Regards

[abraunegg]

You are using wildcards for exclusions, but not using wildcards for inclusions.

What occurs when you configure your rules correctly ?

[romeroluisraul]

Thanks for the reply.

I understand the point about wildcards, however I don’t think this fully explains the behavior I’m seeing.

I intentionally avoid using wildcards in inclusions because adding /* causes deeper exclusion rules to be ignored. For example, when I include /Documentos/Moto/*, the exclusions for:

!/Documentos/Moto/Wave/Choque 20 7 23/Medico/tomografia_perito/*
!/Documentos/Moto/Wave/Choque 20 7 23/Medico/tac_pre/*

are no longer respected, and those directories get synced.

[abraunegg]

Thanks for the reply.

I understand the point about wildcards, however I don’t think this fully explains the behavior I’m seeing.

I intentionally avoid using wildcards in inclusions because adding /* causes deeper exclusion rules to be ignored. For example, when I include /Documentos/Moto/*, the exclusions for:

!/Documentos/Moto/Wave/Choque 20 7 23/Medico/tomografia_perito/*
!/Documentos/Moto/Wave/Choque 20 7 23/Medico/tac_pre/*

are no longer respected, and those directories get synced.

Then that is a bug as if it is an exclusion rule, as those are processed first, if matched, then no further rules should be processed.

Another potential is to remove the wildcard from the exclusion, but leave the wildcard in the inclusion.

[romeroluisraul]

Another potential is to remove the wildcard from the exclusion, but leave the wildcard in the inclusion.

This worked! Many thanks!!