The Spotlight search is a good tip, I hadn't realized it also added the ability to have a "Spotlight scanner".
Still, I must admit its still surprising to me that File and Folder Scanner doesn't support regular expression filtering. Its such a common pattern (e.g. .gitignore). d On Saturday, June 30, 2012 9:26:24 AM UTC-4, Rob McBroom wrote: > > On Jun 29, 2012, at 2:28 PM, bfu.me wrote: > > > I concur - even on the current version, ß68 (3926), I find that > deselecting the parent folder only excludes the folder itself from the > catalog - it doesn't exclude the folder's contents. > > To answer the original question, no, you can’t exclude folder contents > once they’re included. > > Regarding the specific example in the screenshot, the Dock entry literally > only includes the Downloads folder. If the contents are appearing, they’re > being added by one of the other entries. > > As for things having names similar to what you were after, that should be > a temporary problem. Once you’ve used something a couple of times, it > should become the first result for that search (and I think it gets a > higher rank for similar searches as well). > > The best solution is to not put unwanted stuff in the catalog in the first > place. You can access contents of folders using / or →. There’s no need to > add all of a folder’s contents directly to the catalog unless you truly > access them frequently. > > Another possible alternative is to use the a Spotlight entry instead of > the standard File & Folder Scanner. You can do pretty complicated, specific > things that way, but you’ll have to figure out the query for what you want. > > -- > Rob McBroom > <http://www.skurfer.com/> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Quicksilver group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en
