What happens to default ignored folders?

[macgruder]

Originally Posted by dnanian

They'd get deleted, macgruder. At present, there's no easy workaround to have files untouched like this, while smart updating the rest, except by partitioning the drive and NOT mixing backup and archive (my recommended approach, even if we did support preserving folders).

Thanks. Actually, this situation was just a one-off after buying a new internal hard-drive and having to send my computer back to Apple for repairs.

I guess then the engine doesn't use rsync because when I did a test like this:

sudo rsync -avE --delete --exclude '/Test/Ignore/*' /Test /Volumes/Target

stuff inside /Volumes/Target/Test/Ignore were not deleted.