How to avoid "Creating directory snapshots/xxxx" when using "duplicacy list"

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#1

Hi all.
When runing duplicacy list, “Creating directory snapshots/xxxx” message appears.
Can’t figure out the meaning of this message.
Is there a way to avoid it because I’d like to use the duplicacy list output.

Sample :
duplicacy list,
Storage set to smb://jerome@ocean/backup/duplicacy
Creating directory snapshots/home/
Creating directory snapshots/home
Snapshot home revision 1 created at 2025-10-15 12:49 -hash
Creating directory snapshots/home
Snapshot home revision 2 created at 2025-10-15 22:04
Creating directory snapshots/home
Snapshot home revision 3 created at 2025-10-16 18:03
Creating directory snapshots/home
etc.

Best regards.

Creating directory snapshots messages
#2

At a guess, this is probably just creating the directory structure in the cache - which is kinda necessary in order to do a list. But you’re probably only seeing this if you using -v or -d anyway.

#3

Hi,
I just launch a duplicacy list without option.
My goal is to generate reports then sending a report email.
Could it be due to the smb storage?

#4

Hi all,
When using duplicacy list Creating directory snapshots/ messages appears.
Can’t figure out the utility of these messages and how to avoid them to reuse command line output.
Any ideas???

Max OSX 15.7.1 / Duplicacy 3.2.5 (2DEF01) ARM version

Sample :
duplicacy list
Storage set to smb://jerome@ocean/backup/duplicacy
Creating directory snapshots/home/
Creating directory snapshots/home
Snapshot home revision 1 created at 2025-10-15 12:49 -hash
Creating directory snapshots/home
Snapshot home revision 2 created at 2025-10-15 22:04
Creating directory snapshots/home
Etc…

#5

If you don’t need them - ignore them?

What are you trying to accomplish?

#6

My goal is to generate reports then sending a report email.
I will clean the report by script but it appears sometimes during a “duplicacy backup” too.

#7

I notice that these messages only appear when I use the -log option; otherwise, they do not appear.
As they don’t have an ID, they can’t be removed by the -suppress option,