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Rules Overview [Standard/Professional Only]

Sometimes particular conditions about a file should change the way Synk handles it. For instance, you may wish that Synk skips over files with a particular label, always deletes files with some name, or doesn't archive large files.

Synk Standard allows using rules to exclude certain files and folders from the operation. Synk Professional additionally allows rules to determine specific actions to be taken for files and folders, the joining of rule criteria in boolean combinations, and using rules to govern whether items are archived upon their deletion.

The "Edit Rule" sheet appears when you either create a new rule by clicking on the "Add" button to create a new rule or when you click the "Edit" button to change an existing rule.

Use the "Name" field to help you remember what the rule does. This has no impact on the behavior of the rule, but is how the rule is shown in the main rule list.

There are four main inputs that determine the overall behavior of the rule:

Due to a bug in the Cocoa frameworks, international users should be careful with the date parsing in the date rules. Some localized date formats will not be properly read by the text field; however, the displayed date will be properly in your localized format.

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