Title: Excludes bug
Last modified: April 11, 2021

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# Excludes bug

 *  [V Chappell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vcchappell/)
 * (@vcchappell)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excludes-bug/)
 * When configuring a complete backup, when I go into “Excludes”, under “Your Site”
   I see the top-level directory in my site. I chose to exclude the “Images” directory
   here.
 * What I did not know or expect was that this plugin would exclude ALL folders 
   on the entire site that are named “Images”.
 * So later, when I needed to restore the site, it was a disaster. Every plugin 
   that has an “images” directory in it was broken. Every theme was broken because
   all of the images were missing. I basically had to re-install everything from
   scratch, rendering the plugin mostly useless.
 * So it would be a really good fix, if someone excludes a directory, exclude THAT
   directory only, not all the directories with a similar name!!!
 * Thanks.

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 * Last reply from: [V Chappell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vcchappell/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excludes-bug/)
 * Status: not resolved