I want Doxygen to ignore, bypass, not search the following directories of my project: 

*/.svn/*
*/docs/*
*/Properties/*
*/bin/*

According to the Doxygen FAQ: 

How can I exclude all test directories from my directory tree?

Simply put an exclude pattern like this in the configuration file:

EXCLUDE_PATTERNS = */test/*

So, my Doxygen file looks like this: 

# If the value of the INPUT tag contains directories, you can use the 
# EXCLUDE_PATTERNS tag to specify one or more wildcard patterns to exclude 
# certain files from those directories. Note that the wildcards are matched 
# against the file with absolute path, so to exclude all test directories 
# for example use the pattern */test/*

EXCLUDE_PATTERNS       = */.svn/* \
                         */docs/* \
                         */published/* \
                         */bin/* \
                         */obj/*

The output from Doxygen is:

Searching for include files...
Searching for example files...
Searching for images...
Searching for files in directory c:/Test_Fixtures/pc_application/docs
Searching for files in directory c:/Test_Fixtures/pc_application/docs/.svn
Searching for files in directory c:/Test_Fixtures/pc_application/docs/.svn/prop-base
Searching for files in directory c:/Test_Fixtures/pc_application/docs/.svn/props
Searching for files in directory c:/Test_Fixtures/pc_application/docs/.svn/text-base
Searching for files in directory c:/Test_Fixtures/pc_application/docs/.svn/tmp
Searching for files in directory c:/Test_Fixtures/pc_application/docs/.svn/tmp/prop-base
Searching for files in directory c:/Test_Fixtures/pc_application/docs/.svn/tmp/props
Searching for files in directory c:/Test_Fixtures/pc_application/docs/.svn/tmp/text-base
Searching for files in directory c:/Test_Fixtures/pc_application/docs/html
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