Beginner help: Excluding directories by pattern

[Michael_google gmail_Gersten]

> You want --exclude-from=file
> You can cut-and-paste those path patterns into that file just as they are.

Sadly, I'm still getting the files on the destination.

Any ideas? 3.0.7 on windows, 3.0.8 on mac.
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