Cobian Reflector • Re: feature request: Global Exclusions List

Thanks for the thumbs-up. The more I think about this, the more I like it : )

Just a bit of empirical follow-up for a Win11 pc, however anecdotal : )
After tuning my tasks over the past week, mainly to avoid bloat, my cumulative backup to NAS has gone from this:

• Backed up files: 171444.

• Time elapsed: 2 hours, 47 minutes, 2 seconds.

to

• Backed up files: 1298.

• Time elapsed: 0 hours, 34 minutes, 28 seconds.

And for a similar mirror task:

• Backed up files: 171571.

• Time elapsed: 2 hours, 53 minutes, 3 seconds.

to

• Backed up files: 781.

• Time elapsed: 0 hours, 20 minutes, 8 seconds.

The main bloat offenders knock themselves out primarily in the user's AppData folder, and primarily with unimportant files: Microsoft (Edge is insane, and I don't even use it) and Firefox. If I used Google, the savings would probably be even more pronounced.

Statistics: Posted by GiacomoGo — 20 Aug 2023, 00:07

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