Trying to exclude OneDrive, Temp and Downloads from backup

Server
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I am getting the Error:

Error getting complete file “oLqkEZbDhQS3JGx3s0tZ|C/Users/./OneDrive - /XXXX.xlsx” from DEV-2001. Errorcode: CANNOT_OPEN_FILE (3)

I am trying to exclude OneDrive, Temp, Downloads.

On the Windows server I have: *\Temp*;\Downloads*;*\OneDrive\*

It does not seem to be working what am I missing?

I did discover that the files that are giving the error seem to be files that are deleted on the local machine, but are still on the OnDrive.

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This seems to have a slash? Maybe the pattern is wrong?

I’d add it has full path. E.g. C:\Users\:\OneDrive;C:\Users\:\OneDrive - *

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so then would it look like this ?

C:\Users\:\OneDrive;C:\Temp;C:\Users\:\downloads

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Yeah if you don’t have OneDrive folders with slash in it

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It did not work so I’m going to try tonight :

C:\Users:\OneDrive;C:\Users:\OneDrive - *;C:\Temp;C:\Users:\downloads

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I would suggest C:\Users\Onedrive\*

I believe one should append an asterisk after the folder delineation.

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So it would look like:
C:\Temp;C:\Users:\downloads;C:\Users\OneDrive\*

So the actual path is C:\Users\usersname\OneDrive\* Should I put something in to represent the changing user name?

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I haven’t tried this myself, but I would try this:

C:\Users\*\OneDrive;C:\Users\*\OneDrive*

The “*” is a wild card, so is “:” - see more details here. So below I am demonstrating with capital letters = USERNAME.

Your path will never find the OneDrive folder because it doesn’t exist at: C:\Users\OneDrive\*

The personal OneDrive location is = C:\Users\USERNAME\OneDrive
The business OneDrive location is = C:\Users\USERNAME\OneDrive - BUSINESS

FYI - I don’t have any C:\Temp location on my Windows 11 25H2 system. If you google some locations for Windows 11 temp folders you will find them here:

C:\Windows\Temp
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Temp

I asked Grok and it came back with it’s suggestion:

*.tmp;Users:AppData*;Users:(OneDrive|OneDrive - *)*

Steve

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Thank you for the information Steve.

I’ll try C:\Users\*\OneDrive;C:\Users\*\OneDrive* tonight and let you know the results.