WinMerge – need to exclude certain folders but the result is all folder excluded

vrs 2.16.50

Working with two external drives G: and D: I want to exclude certain folders.
Based on other questions asked and answered Ive wrote the filter like this:

filter: !folder3; !folder4; !folder5

This only scans the files present and none of the other folders.

folder1 and 2 are not scanned. file1, etc are the only things scanned.

I can remove the filters all together and it scans everything.

I tried creating a file for the filter with the same results.

## to Exclude
name: Exclude folders
desc: Exclude specific messy folders, scan everything else

## This is an inclusive filter (include everything except the rules below)
def: include

## Include ALL folders and subfolders by default
d: \*$

## === Now exclude the specific folders you don't want ===
d: \folder3$
d: \folder4$
d: \folder5$