MacOs: Exclusion pattern is ignored

[deermo]

Describe the bug
As seen in this picture, my exclusion path (Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup) is ignored. I am however not sure if this is a bug or my mistake. However, after reading https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/help.html, this relative path should work

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: macOS Catalina

[ThomasWaldmann]

Where exactly did you read that they "should work"?

[m3nu]

Your source path and all of Vorta's paths are absolute, thus you need absolute exclude patterns, as explained in the docs you linked:

When you give /absolute/ as root, they will look like /absolute/…/file.ext.

The patterns in this text field use Borg's --exclude-from, thus fnmatch is used. So you probably want: (Vorta expands ~ internally)

~/Library/Caches
~/Documents/_old/*.mp4
*/.cache
*/.DS_Store

We do want to improve exclusion handlings and make them easier to understand. See #399 for further discussions.

[deermo]

Thank you for your answer.

The path/filenames used as input for the pattern matching start from the currently active recursion root.
This is what made me think that while recursively parsing the folders, it will match. But I understand now that this is not how it works. Anyway, I think it's good to make them easier to understand.