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/> 
>>
>>

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