Migration Options

The Options step controls which files are selected and what happens at the source after a successful transfer.

Source Files After Migration

This setting determines what happens to source files after they migrate successfully. Keeping source files supports a parallel transition. Deleting them frees source storage. When deletion is enabled, Mover can also remove source folders that become empty.

Include and Exclude Patterns

The Include Patterns and Exclude Patterns options selectively migrate specific items from the source to the destination. If no patterns are provided, the entire contents of the source are migrated. Include Patterns define which files and folders are transferred. Exclude Patterns define which files and folders are skipped. If a file matches both, the exclusion takes precedence.

Patterns use case-insensitive, accent-insensitive glob matching. Hidden filenames beginning with a period are included when they match a pattern.

• A single asterisk (*) matches folders or files at a specific level.

• A double asterisk (**) matches all subfolders recursively.

• A question mark (?) matches any single character.

• Square brackets ([]) match sets or ranges of characters.

• Curly brackets ({}) match alternatives, so {Mon,Tue,Wed} matches any file whose name contains one of those abbreviated weekdays.

• A bracket expression can match a literal wildcard character, so [?] matches a question mark.

File names can be matched using wildcards or extensions, including *.pdf for all PDF files.

Patterns can be applied to paths, filenames, or both. path/to/*.pdf matches all PDF files in the specified folder. **/_202{4,5}_.pdf matches PDF files across any folder whose name contains either 2024 or 2025. Multiple include and exclude patterns may be set for a single migration, and folder exclusions apply recursively to all contents of the excluded folder.