Clarification of how Rules works

[scolfax]

Hello, I'm a newbie and have a few basic questions concerning Rules. I'm working with Retrospect 10.0.1 on a Mac running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion:

 

1) What is the difference between "Mac Path" and "Unix Path"? Since they both seem to require POSIX paths, wouldn't they behave identically on a Mac?

 

2) Are search terms case-sensitive? For example, do the terms "/Caches/" and "/caches/" match the same or different targets?

 

3) What is the difference between "File" and "Folder"? For example, if I search for "File" "Mac Path" "Contains" "/Users/" versus "Folder" "Mac Path" "Contains" "/Users/", wouldn't they match the same targets? Or does the first only match files and latter only match folders?

 

4) How exactly does "is like" behave? I found a couple of discussions that seem to indicate that it kinda behaves somewhat like a bash globbing.

 

I apologize for repeating any questions that may have been previously discussed, but I couldn't find clear answers even after reading the Users Guide extensively and quite a number of blogs (I do hope that a truly comprehensive User's Guide is in the works.)

[Don Lee]

IMO, the documentation on rules needs more work. There are lots of questions like this about how they work that should be explained in detail. Useful examples would be very useful, too.