Add folder

[Jtasiu]

Is there a way to add entire folder of programs to simplewall? I see it is possible to select multiple .exes/other files but is it possible to add a folder including subfolders?

[ltguillaume]

Now you're just lazy ;-) :-P If you happen to use Total Commander, press Ctrl+B inside the folder, go to an .exe and press Alt+NumPlus. Now drag the files into simplewall.

[ghost]

There are applications that change their path each update. League of Legends and Discord, for example. I need these five files allowed to have the game working. As you see, there are folders with numbers. Next update there will be other numbers. This add folder feature would be very convenient.

League of Legends\RADS\solutions\lol_game_client_sln\releases\0.0.1.255\deploy\League of Legends.exe
League of Legends\RADS\projects\league_client\releases\0.0.0.183\deploy\LeagueClientUx.exe
League of Legends\RADS\projects\league_client\releases\0.0.0.183\deployLeagueClient.exe
League of Legends\RADS\projects\league_client\releases\0.0.0.182\deploy\LeagueClientUx.exe
League of Legends\RADS\projects\league_client\releases\0.0.0.182\deployLeagueClient.exe

[ltguillaume]

@dima-lisolyub That's a lot like #136 and cannot be easily handled, since the Windows Filtering Platform only allows full paths to a single executable.

It would require that simplewall monitors all filesystem changes in the specified folder and adds a rule as soon as a new executable pops up in the folder. It's possible, but probably not a small thing to implement. It would also probably only be useful when using simplewall in whitelist mode, because there would definitely be a delay between the creation of the file and the creation of the filter, during which the file could already have accessed the network when in blacklist mode.

[skupjoe]

Wildcard support would work for this and also solve this issue if it could somehow be implemented.

Or if we could just go by relative program name (no fully declared path)

#1441 for more thoughts/discussion