I am lucky enough to have few enough files that QS can handle basically indexing all of them. However I've recently started using Git for some development projects, and I also have old versions of things from before I started using Git. This means I have a ton of extra files that I don't need to be able to get to with QS, but they're mixed in with files that I do want in the catalog.
Is there any chance of adding a simple exclude-by-name feature? Exclude-by-type isn't quite good enough, because ".git" doesn't have a type. I'm okay with doing something like adding ".noqs" to a folder's name to exclude it (no need for a file-chooser exclude-arbitrary-file interface, which I'm sure would be more work), but again, that extension doesn't have an associated type. I've used the workaround of renaming folders I want excluded with ".pkg", which _does_ give them a type (and excludes them already, if "descend into bundles" isn't checked), but has the disadvantage of making them inaccessible through the Finder (ironically at that point the easiest way to get into them is to right-arrow in with QS :)) and possibly confusing them with actual installer packages. Oh, and one other less-important thing—a "follow symlinks/aliases" option, checked by default. Less important because excluding type "alias data" does basically the same thing, but it'd be a good newbie- friendly feature. The use case is that I have symlinks in my Sites folder that go into my Documents folder and vise-versa, and I want QS to avoid following them so it doesn't do double work (even if it eventually prunes the catalog so there are no actual double entries). A huge thank-you to all the QS devs for reviving my single most-used piece of software!
