I finally got this to work - sort of - the way I want with the help of TWO DIFFERENT VMware techs. I'll say this, their documentation with regard to Snapvol.cfg files is absolute garbage and doe...
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I finally got this to work - sort of - the way I want with the help of TWO DIFFERENT VMware techs. I'll say this, their documentation with regard to Snapvol.cfg files is absolute garbage and does not do nearly enough to explain how they work, where they should be placed, or how to edit them properly. It's a wild goose chase, to be honest, to figure out a configuration that works - and I don't mean the file modification itself, I mean it's placement on the virtual machine as well. To accomplish a situation where the writable EXCLUDES all the core Windows profile locations, like "Documents", "Downloads" and so on...DO EVERYTHING AS AN ADMIN 1. COPY the file "C:\Program Files (x86)\CloudVolumes\Agent\Config\Default\profile\Snapvol.cfg" to a NEW folder here, "C:\Program Files (x86)\CloudVolumes\Agent\Config\Custom" - you must CREATE the "Custom" folder at that location, then paste that specific aforementioned Snapvol.cfg to it as well. None of the other Snapvol.cfg files, as they are configured, will work for this scenario. NOTE: the documentation insists you should be able to place a Snapvol.cfg file to "C:\Program Files (x86)\CloudVolumes\Agent\Custom\profile\", but this does not work, it just ignores the Snapvol.cfg in that location. ALSO, this configuration file, in this specific location, will apply to EVERY type of App Volume - I have not found a way to make this work ONLY for Writable profiles. I was happy just to have this sort of work. The documentation does a poor job of pointing out WHICH Snapvol.cfg file to use for whatever purpose you're trying to accomplish, it doesn't help that for every type of volume, the configuration file is called "Snapvol.cfg". One would think, after reading the documentation, you simply create a "Snapvol.cfg" file and add the exclusion lines you want - the documentation mentions this, but this is not the case at all. You have to copy the default Snapvol.cfg for the volume type you wish to edit, or add exclusions. 2. Edit the Snapvol.cfg you copied over from step one - as an ADMIN - you can copy it to another location temporarily if you don't want to edit it as an admin, it's easier that way, but you have to copy it back to that location AS AN ADMIN 2.a Create a commented area to describe the exclusions, like this... ##### # File exclusions ##### I did this just under the "File inclusions" line of the Snapvol.cfg. 2.b Add lines for each profile location you wish to exclude, like this.... exclude_uwv_file=\Users\%username%\Documents\\ See screenshots. They're helpful. So, there's still a lot this doesn't do for me. Like I said, it applies to ALL volume types, which I don't want. Even though the document header says "type=writable" and "writable_type=profile", doesn't seem to matter. But it at least sort of accomplishes what I'm looking for. Hope that helps someone.