Second/third the need for this. SIn my case it would very useful to scan a folder, but exclude specific subdirectories.
g On Friday, July 6, 2012 5:56:09 AM UTC-7, David Rees wrote: > > 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]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en.
