Web Deploy: How to keep files on a specific destination folder

Question

Scenario

• Visual Studio 2012 web publishing: web Deploy method.
• "Remove additional files at destination" option selected.
• MVC3 website with a "upload" folder

Question

How to keep the existing files on destination for the upload folder without removing the "Remove addtional files..." option from the deployment settings?

Answer 1

Apparently you can do it with wpp.targets file. Then skip only the folder you want...

<ItemGroup>
  <MsDeploySkipRules Include="SkipErrorLogFolder1"> 
    <SkipAction>Delete</SkipAction> 
    <ObjectName>FolderPath</ObjectName> 
    <AbsolutePath>ErrorLog</AbsolutePath> 
  </MsDeploySkipRules> 
</ItemGroup>

Have a look here, see first there:

MSbuild command line parameter for skipping the directory