| Re: How to exclude files by type (extension) from indexed folder [message #760 is a reply to message #759] |
Fri, 01 June 2018 11:50   |
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Des Bw wrote:
> I want to exclude some file types from an indexed folder.
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> I want to keep some plaintexts such as TEX to be indexed; but not Log
> files.
In Manage Indices / Indexed Data / Index contents of files, you can disable some file types, for example logs and generic xml files.
Tex files are not indexed by contents, unless if you have a third-party application that declare them as plain text files (or if you have a tex Spotlight importer, possibly bundled with a tex editor application). In this case, they should be indexed if "plain text" is enabled in "Index contents of files" (or "document", in the case of a spotlight importer), and you can leave xml and log off.
> The release note of Version 5.5.5 lists some kind of command-line
> preference to exclude files by extension. But, I couldn't find any guide or
> evidence on those preferences.
If you don't have any third party application or importer to make tex files indexable, you can force FoxTrot to handle them as plain text files, by typing this command in Terminal.app (before launching FoxTrot):
defaults write com.ctmdev.foxtrot Aliases -array-add "{type='tex'; as='txt';}"
To do the opposite (if tex files are actually indexed by content because of an application declaring tex as a plain text type, but you don't want to index them):
defaults write com.ctmdev.foxtrot Aliases -array-add "{type='tex'; as='';}"
To do this for a filetype that have a specific binary header (in this example, to disable indexing .txt files with a uuencode header):
defaults write com.ctmdev.foxtrot Aliases -array-add "{type='txt'; headers=(); as='';}"
to reset to the default settings:
defaults delete com.ctmdev.FoxTrot Aliases
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