cant exclude folder that start with .

[rsnitsch]

cant exclude folder that start with .

[rsnitsch]

Excluding a single .hidden item is different from excluding all items with the name .hidden.

The -e / --exclude option does not do pattern matching. It is just for excluding specific files/folders. To make your example work you could change the cmdline to py3createtorrent.exe -v -e d:\hidden-folder-test\.hidden d:\hidden-folder-test i.e. provide full path to the .hidden folder so that it can be recognized by py3createtorrent (unambiguously).

If you want to exclude all files/folders that have the name ".hidden" then you can try the --exclude-pattern option.

[rsnitsch]

I just tested this with a folder starting with ".". For me it works:

C:\Users\Robert\Desktop\hidden-folder-test
λ ls -Al
total 1
drwxr-xr-x 1 Robert 197121  0 Mrz 13 09:39 .hidden/
-rw-r--r-- 1 Robert 197121 10 Mrz 13 09:39 file_outside_of_hidden_folder.txt

C:\Users\Robert\Desktop\hidden-folder-test
λ py3createtorrent.exe -v --exclude .hidden .
Path to config file:  C:\Users\Robert\.py3createtorrent.cfg
Config file does not exist
Config / Tracker abbreviations:
{'coppersurfer': 'udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969/announce',
 'cyberia': 'udp://tracker.cyberia.is:6969/announce',
 'opentrackr': 'udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce'}
Config / Advertise:         True
Config / Best trackers URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ngosang/trackerslist/master/trackers_best.txt
Skipping '.hidden' due to explicit exclusion.
Processing file 'file_outside_of_hidden_folder.txt'... done
Successfully created torrent:
  Name:                hidden-folder-test
  Size:                0 KiB
  Pieces:              1 x 16 KiB
  Comment:             created with py3createtorrent v1.0.1
  Private:             no
  Creation date:       2022-03-13 09:41:19
  DHT bootstrap nodes: (none)
  Webseeds:            (none)
  Primary tracker:     (none)
  Backup trackers:
    (none)

Can you please show a more complete example including the full command that you are using as well as the layout of the files in the folder?

[keppo070]

It seems to be related to the absolute path i'm using. it cant find the .folder that why it is not excluded.

here is my cmdline

H:\>py3createtorrent.exe -v -e .hidden d:\hidden-folder-test
Path to config file:  C:\Users\Patrick\.py3createtorrent.cfg
Config file does not exist
Config / Tracker abbreviations:
{'coppersurfer': 'udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969/announce',
 'cyberia': 'udp://tracker.cyberia.is:6969/announce',
 'opentrackr': 'udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce'}
Config / Advertise:         True
Config / Best trackers URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ngosang/trackerslist/master/trackers_best.txt
Warning: You're excluding a path that does not exist: 'h:\.hidden'
Processing file '.hidden\.hidden.txt.bak'... done
Processing file '.hidden\.hidden_file_inside.txt'... done
Processing file 'hidden-folder-test.torrent'... done
Processing file 'hidden.txt.bak'... done
Processing file 'hidden_file_outside.txt'... done
Successfully created torrent:
  Name:                hidden-folder-test
  Size:                0 KiB
  Pieces:              1 x 16 KiB
  Comment:             created with py3createtorrent v1.0.1
  Private:             no
  Creation date:       2022-03-13 10:33:19
  DHT bootstrap nodes: (none)
  Webseeds:            (none)
  Primary tracker:     (none)
  Backup trackers:
    (none)

When I omit the drive portion so I make it a relative path. It is working like your example.