"Test Search Selection" tool as in Duplicati v1

Features
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Hello! Thank you for beutiful program and it would better if you add such useful thing as “Test Search Selection” - window, where I can see what’s files will be add and add some filters.

Do you planned this feature?

2

The code is there, but there is no real UI for it.

You can use the Commandline... UI and choose the TestFilters command, but it is not very user friendly.

3

Please note that for the moment you might be better off using the test-filters command in the actual CLI as I suspect there is a bug in the GUI version of it:

(Note that the bug MAY only happen if certain other parameters are in use, so it might work just fine for you…)

4

Unfortunately, it doesn’t work. I see error:
Starting - Running TestFilters
Running TestFilters took 00:00:00.000

Invalid path: “webdavs://webdav.yandex.ru/Archives?auth-username=foshjplnknf&auth-password=opiojnbfikbikbknn” (Illegal characters in path.)
Return code: 100

Username and password was changed but also have latin small letters.

5

I created dedicated support theme: GUI test-filters doesn't work

6

if you really want to use the command line version it would look something like this (at least on Windows):

"C:\Program Files\Duplicati 2\Duplicati.CommandLine.exe" test-filters C:\Users\TEMP\ --exclude=C:\Users\TEMP\AppData\Local\TileDataLayer\ --exclude=C:\Users\TEMP\SomethingElse

Where things break down like:

  • path to Duplicati command line executable
  • command to execute (test-filters)
  • path against which to test (C:\Users\TEMP)
  • one or more exclude or include filters (–exclude=C:\A_Folder\ --exclude=C:\A_file.txt)
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7

Thank you. BTW, what’s difference between test-filter and test-filters? Is test-filter only for first filter?

Strange:

C:\Program Files\Duplicati 2>Duplicati.CommandLine.exe help test-filter

Usage: test-filters []

Scans the source files and tests against the filters specified, the console
output shows which files and folders are examined and the result.

C:\Program Files\Duplicati 2>Duplicati.CommandLine.exe help test-filters

Usage: test-filters []

Scans the source files and tests against the filters specified, the console
output shows which files and folders are examined and the result.

8

No difference - I asked the same thing. :smiley:

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