Best Practices Guide › DMM Best Practices › Planning the Migration Method › Include, Exclude, Omit, and Always Omit › Create an Exclude Filter

Create an Exclude Filter

Exclude filters exclude the files matching the filter criteria from the migration wherever the file may have been selected, either through a filter or by selecting it directly on the Select Files and Folders page. You can use DMM Template Editor to create an exclude filter.

To create an exclude filter

1. Open DMM Template Editor from the Start menu.

   DMM Template Editor opens.

2. Click the Filters branch.

   The Filters page opens.

3. Click the Exclude option button.

   You can define the criteria on any of the three tabs, Name and Type, Date and Size, or Locations. The filter you create excludes all files that meet the defined criteria from the migration processing.

   Note: Exclude filters exclude files matching the filter criteria from migration processing independently of where the file was selected for migration. For example, if you create a filter to exclude all .mp3 files from the migration, even if you explicitly select an .mp3 file on the Select Files and Folders page, no .mp3 files will be migrated.

4. Click Create Filter.

   The filter is added to the list of filters for the migration.