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I've tried just about every way to get a negation in the "Subject contains" string using "^", but it just won't happen.

My goal is to set a watch/save filter for a certain movie title (the .mpg parts only), but to exclude all PAR2 files

"PartialNameOfMovie*mpg^PAR2" doesn't work. Nor does [PAR]. Nor does extending the string paramters, so that PAR2 in included within, as:

"PartialNameOfMovie*^PAR2*yenc"

What am I doing wrong?

OK, I've been playing around with this and I think I know what I was doing wrong. Separate functions need to be separated by "AND", or at least that's what it seems:

Subject contains: PartialNameOf Movie*mpg&^PAR2

This produces the correct result; both conditions, written as separate functions, can now be met.

Does this sound correct?

yes, there should be & or | in between.