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I've created a folder sync based on the basic sync recipe post below and it works great.

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I'd like to add a filter to exclude filenames that end with specific characters. That filter works separately but I can't figure out where to put it in the sync filter to make it work.

This is working for the sync but not the file exclusion:

It won't work in this case as the Sync action is meant to sync a whole folder at a time.

Instead, you would have to create two separate rules. One to tell Hazel to go into subfolders (search in the manual as there's a chapter on it there) and one to copy the individual files. In the second rule is where you'd put any conditions to limit which files should be copied. Note that by going this route, though, you lose the ability to sync deletions (where a file deleted at the source is likewise removed from the destination).

Thanks. So in order to keep a full sync including deletions, I won't be able to filter out some files?

That is correct.

If I change to a two step rules in order to filter out specific filenames, deleted files won't sync, but what about renames? Will those?

Thanks!

The file under the new name will be copied over but the file with the old name will remain at the destination.