Title: Can't exclude uploads?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Can't exclude uploads?

 *  Resolved [Jenny Beaumont](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jennybeaumont/)
 * (@jennybeaumont)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-exclude-uploads/)
 * Hi there,
 * I’ve been trying to do a backup of a site where, unfortunately, the client has
   given many of the images very long names. These names are then throwing warnings
   that they can’t be saved correctly because they are too long.
 * Fair enough.
 * So I have excluded all images in the uploads directory from my backup job, but
   the images are still showing up and throwing warnings. This doesn’t make sense
   to me. Either 1) exclusion isn’t being taken into account, 2) file names are 
   being considered/processed even though excluded.
 * Help?
    thnx! -jennyb
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tom Willmot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmot/)
 * (@willmot)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-exclude-uploads/#post-5448424)
 * Hey Jenny!
 * That’s an interesting bug, could you post an example of the errors you are seeing.
 *  Thread Starter [Jenny Beaumont](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jennybeaumont/)
 * (@jennybeaumont)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-exclude-uploads/#post-5448426)
 * Hey Tom,
 * Sure, I’ve posted a screenshot of the warning [here](https://www.dropbox.com/s/of89o4hu4y1glyq/warning.jpg?dl=0).
   And you can see my exclusions [here](https://www.dropbox.com/s/5iyrzaf9x0d0frd/exclusions.jpg?dl=0)(
   French, sorry :\).
 * voilà ! strange, right?
 * thnx!
    -jennyb
 *  Thread Starter [Jenny Beaumont](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jennybeaumont/)
 * (@jennybeaumont)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-exclude-uploads/#post-5448437)
 * Forgive me, Tom, I clicked too fast (google search) and realize I’m not posting
   to the right place. Names of plugins can be so similar sometimes!
 *  Thread Starter [Jenny Beaumont](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jennybeaumont/)
 * (@jennybeaumont)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-exclude-uploads/#post-5448441)
 * That said, will take this for a spin – haven’t tried it yet! 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Tom Willmot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmot/)
 * (@willmot)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-exclude-uploads/#post-5448447)
 * No worries Jenny, would love to hear if our plugin works for you as I’ve never
   come across the long filename issue.

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