I'm trying to create an exceptions list when using the fciv utility but it's not working. I have 3 directories on my d drive - dirA, dirB, dirC and I want to exclude dirC from the file check. My initial command looks like this: fciv d:\ -r -exc exceptions.txt -md5 -xml test.xml My exception list (exceptions.txt) is in the same directory as my fciv utility and contains 1 line: d:\dirC I run the following command to verify: fciv -v -xml test.xml > testResult.txt The testResult.txt file includes all 3 directories but should exclude changes to the dirC directory based on my exceptions.txt. Thanks for any help you can provide.