7-Zip – How to Exclude Certain File Types/Extensions When Adding to Archive

7-zipwindows 7

I want to archive a folder, but I want to exlude all media files.

How do I leave out *.avi and *.flac when archiving?

Only possible solution is to use the command-line version (it doesn't work in the GUI [Add to Archive] dialog):

7z.exe a Archive.7z C:\Folder\* -r -x!*.avi -x!*.flac

The "Parameters" input box in the GUI can only be used for compression parameters and cannot be used with standard command line parameters.

Your command told 7z to add the data in myFolder, then also to add stuff in myFolder that was a jpg, then that which is a pdf. You can just use:

"c:\program files\7-zip\7z" a testArchive.zip -i!c:\myFolder\*.jpg -i!c:\myFolder\*.pdf

and that will pick up the correct files through the inclusion filters.

and

 forfiles  /c "7za a -t7z @fname.7z @file" /d -1