FileSeek RSS: Exclude Path not working as expected https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=51de9540-dd86-4da1-945d-982dff339c18 FileSeek RSS: Exclude Path not working as expected Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:39:21 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=51de9540-dd86-4da1-945d-982dff339c18 RE: Exclude Path not working as expected https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/exclude-path-not-working-as-expected/?ID=51de9540-dd86-4da1-945d-982dff339c18#4 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 19:02:06 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/exclude-path-not-working-as-expected/?ID=51de9540-dd86-4da1-945d-982dff339c18#4 FileSeek FileSeek 4.2 is now available, and there's now an option in the settings to choose whether you want the Exclude paths field to be treated as a wildcard or not :)

Thanks! ]]> RE: Exclude Path not working as expected https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/exclude-path-not-working-as-expected/?ID=51de9540-dd86-4da1-945d-982dff339c18#3 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 16:09:07 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/exclude-path-not-working-as-expected/?ID=51de9540-dd86-4da1-945d-982dff339c18#3 FileSeek Ok, I've gone all the way back to 3.2, and the Exclude Paths box is always treated as a wildcard. We'll add an option for the next version to allow you to choose whether you want it to be always treated as a wildcard or not. In the meantime, if you just do something like this:

\bin\|\obj\

It should then only match the exact directories, because of the leading and trailing backslashes.

Hope that helps! ]]> RE: Exclude Path not working as expected https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/exclude-path-not-working-as-expected/?ID=51de9540-dd86-4da1-945d-982dff339c18#2 Fri, 06 Feb 2015 19:21:34 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/exclude-path-not-working-as-expected/?ID=51de9540-dd86-4da1-945d-982dff339c18#2 FileSeek We'll test this out here and see what we can find out. I'll keep you posted as soon as we have more news :)

Thanks! ]]> Exclude Path not working as expected https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/exclude-path-not-working-as-expected/?ID=51de9540-dd86-4da1-945d-982dff339c18 Fri, 06 Feb 2015 15:19:53 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/exclude-path-not-working-as-expected/?ID=51de9540-dd86-4da1-945d-982dff339c18 FileSeek I typically use an exclude path like "bin|obj" to eliminate searching folders that would match the entire name. However recently my searches began excluding files that contained the sequence "bin" and "obj" even if only as a portion of the files name. Is there a setting to prevent this wildcard approach to matching or is a newly introduced issue? ]]>