Excluded OneDrive OnDemand folder still accessed

Bug
#1

Please describe what you are doing to trigger the bug:
I recently created synced folders with OneDrive, integrating some folders from SharePoint into my explorer on Windows 10. These are sensitive files, that I do not want to include into my personal backup. To avoid backing up these files I tried the following filters:

-Bin/Users/MyUser/SharePoint Folders/
-Bin/Users/MyUser/OneDrive - General Drive/
-Bin/Users/MyUser/SharePoint Folders
-Bin/Users/MyUser/OneDrive - General Drive
-Bin/Users/MyUser/SharePoint Folders/*
-Bin/Users/MyUser/OneDrive - General Drive/*

Please describe what you expect to happen (but doesn’t):
The excluded folders should not be indexed, accessed or backed up.

Please describe what actually happens (the wrong behaviour):
Running the backup will index the folders, thus downloading all files and eventually fail.

2020-11-18 16:30:10.008 ERROR CHUNK_MAKER Failed to read 0 bytes: read \\?\D:\Bin\Users\MyUser\SharePoint Folders\SomeFile.file: The cloud operation is invalid.
Failed to read 0 bytes: read \\?\D:\Bin\Users\MyUser\SharePoint Folders\SomeFile.file: The cloud operation is invalid.
#2

Maybe those files are included by another pattern that appears before these exclude patterns in the filters file. Can you post the entire filters file?

#3

Thanks a lot for the reply. I copied my filters from the web-interface below, but I do not have any includes in there, only excludes. The disk is a data-drive, so I am running a complete backup on it.

-$RECYCLE.BIN/
-System Volume Information/
-hiberfil.sys
-pagefile.sys
-swapfile.sys
-*.tmp
-*.tib
-*.tib.metadata
-*.~
-Bin/Steam/
-Program Files/Epic Games/
-WindowsApps/
-WpSystem/
-WUDownloadCache/
-Program Files (x86)/Origin Games/
-Bin/Spiele/Origin Games/
-Program Files/ModifiableWindowsApps/HaloMCC/
-Bin/Users/MyUser/SharePoint Folders/
-Bin/Users/MyUser/OneDrive - General Drive/
-Bin/Users/MyUser/SharePoint Folders
-Bin/Users/MyUser/OneDrive - General Drive
-Bin/Users/MyUser/SharePoint Folders/*
-Bin/Users/MyUser/OneDrive - General Drive/*

I am currently thinking about relinking the OneDrive sync into another directory, so that I could exclude the parent directory all-together. Would it be possible that Duplicacy is accessing the folder via a symlink, thus not matching the filter?

#4

Add -d as a global option and you’ll see how each file is excluded or included.

#6

I think I found the error. The original folder name includes an &. Saving the filter through the web-interface yields:

2020-11-19 13:23:39.204 TRACE SNAPSHOT_PATTERN Pattern: -Bin/Users/MyUser/Share Point Folders & More/
#7

I worked around the error by moving all the synced folders into a subfolder, which I could exclude. But not being able to exclude & (or other non-standard characters) does not seam all to great, in terms of usability. Is this something that you would be willing to make possible, with the web-interface?