Exclude folders that begin with "." from index

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bitpow
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Exclude folders that begin with "." from index

Post by bitpow »

How do I exclude folders that begin with a dot, or period, from being indexed?

For example, I want to exclude all folders named ".hg" and ".metadata" and ".this" and ".that" when Everything scans my drive.

All obvious filter entries don't seem to work.

Thanks
dan_pub
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Re: Exclude folders that begin with "." from index

Post by dan_pub »

on my machine, this seems to do the job:
folder: \.
bitpow
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Re: Exclude folders that begin with "." from index

Post by bitpow »

Hmm,
That does not appear to work.
I created an Exclude rule "\." for folders only.
".this" and ".that" folders are still being indexed.

Anything else?
dan_pub
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Re: Exclude folders that begin with "." from index

Post by dan_pub »

exclude
filter .*
folders only
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