diff --git a/.metadata b/.metadata
index ff38257..782f498 100644
Binary files a/.metadata and b/.metadata differ
diff --git a/.templates/bin/rotate_folder b/.templates/bin/rotate_folder
index 3b72121..ef23546 100755
--- a/.templates/bin/rotate_folder
+++ b/.templates/bin/rotate_folder
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@
 # Author: Kovács Zoltán <kovacs.zoltan@smartfront.hu>
 #         Kovács Zoltán <kovacsz@marcusconsulting.hu>
 # License: GNU/GPL v3+ (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html)
+# 2025-03-06 v1.1
+# new: added the --noconf option which prevents reading and creating
+#      the configuration file.
 # 2023-06-18 v1.0
 # new: forked from the "SMARTERP_skeleton" repository.
 # 2021.02.12 v0.3
@@ -77,6 +80,7 @@ RETAIN_MONTHS=${RETAIN_MONTHS-"12"}
 # Other initialisations (maybe overridden by configuration).
 #
 DOIT=""
+NOCONF=""
 
 # Messages (maybe overriden by configuration).
 #
@@ -106,6 +110,7 @@ do
     case ${option} in
         "-" )
             if   [ "$OPTARG" = "doit" ]; then DOIT="yes"
+            elif [ "$OPTARG" = "noconf" ]; then NOCONF="yes"
 	    else echo "$MSG_BADOPT --$OPTARG" >&2; exit 1
             fi
         ;;
@@ -135,9 +140,10 @@ BACKUP_FOLDER=${BACKUP_FOLDER%/}
 if [ -z "$BACKUP_FOLDER" -o ! -d "$BACKUP_FOLDER" -o ! -w "$BACKUP_FOLDER" ]
 then echo -e "$MSG_BADFOLDER $BACKUP_FOLDER" >&2; exit 1; fi
 
-# Gets the configuration (if any).
+# Applies the configuration (if it exists and if it doesn't need to be ignored).
 BACKUP_CONF="$BACKUP_FOLDER/.$("$BASENAME" "$0").conf"
-if [ -r $BACKUP_CONF ]; then . "$BACKUP_CONF"
+if [ "$NOCONF" = "yes" ]; then :
+elif [ -r $BACKUP_CONF ]; then . "$BACKUP_CONF"
 else
     # Warns about failure.
     echo -e "$MSG_NOCONF $BACKUP_CONF"