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Auto Recover Ignore

AutoRecoverIgnore is a sandbox setting in Sandboxie Ini. It specifies folders or file types that should be ignored by the Immediate Recovery extension of Quick Recovery. For example:

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   [DefaultBox]
   AutoRecoverIgnore=.part
   AutoRecoverIgnore=%Desktop%
   AutoRecoverIgnore=C:\Folder

The first example excludes from Immediate Recovery any files ending in .part. These files are created by the download manager of the Mozilla browsers, and represent incomplete downloads. When the download completes, the .part extension is removed from the file, thus making it eligible for Immediate Recovery. Note that .part is a default setting.

The second and third examples exclude the specified folders from Immediate Recovery.

Since Sandboxie Plus 1.18.0, entries may contain the wildcards * (matches any number of characters), ? (matches a single character), and ** (matches any number of characters, including path separators). Paths are matched in their NT, DOS, and network-alias forms.

Since Sandboxie Plus 1.18.0, the exclusion list can also be applied to the Quick Recovery window; see UseAutoRecoverIgnoreForQuick.

Related Sandboxie Control setting: Sandbox Settings > Recovery > Immediate Recovery