# FileSet excluding folders

**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/fileset-excluding-folders/2757
**Category:** Bugs
**Created:** [January 10, 2007, 8:48am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/fileset-excluding-folders/2757 "2007-01-10T08:48:42Z")
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### Author: ![jhunsaker](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@jhunsaker](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/jhunsaker)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2007, 8:48am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/fileset-excluding-folders/2757/1 "2007-01-10T08:48:42Z")

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I’m attempting to retrieve all the .csproj files in a directory except for those within a subdirectory named “test”. The include of _.csproj works fine but I’m unable to exclude the test directories. For the exclusion, I’ve tried:_   
  
\test\*  
_\test\_  
\*/\test/\*  
\test\<br\>\test\  
/\test/\<br\>  
  
Thanks!

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### Author: ![paulsamways](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@paulsamways](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/paulsamways)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2007, 11:47am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/fileset-excluding-folders/2757/2 "2007-01-10T11:47:36Z")

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Hi Jeff,  
  
This pattern should exclude all files in the test subdirectories, Test\*.\*  
  
Regards,  
Paul.

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### Author: ![jhunsaker](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@jhunsaker](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/jhunsaker)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2007, 4:40am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/fileset-excluding-folders/2757/3 "2007-01-11T04:40:50Z")

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That did it. Thanks.