| Re: How to exclude files by type (extension) from indexed folder [message #778 is a reply to message #760] |
Sat, 16 June 2018 16:10   |
Des Bw
Messages: 26
Registered: June 2017
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This worked for a while. For some reason, FT now failed to search these TEX
files again (no difference even if I run *defaults write com.ctmdev.foxtrot
Aliases -array-add "{type='tex'; as='txt';}"* hundreds of times)
On Friday, June 1, 2018 at 11:50:08 AM UTC+2, FoxTrot Engineering wrote:
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> Des Bw wrote:
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>> I want to exclude some file types from an indexed folder.
>>
>> I want to keep some plaintexts such as TEX to be indexed; but not Log
>> files.
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> 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.
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>> 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.
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> 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):
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> defaults write com.ctmdev.foxtrot Aliases -array-add "{type='tex';
> as='txt';}"
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> 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):
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> 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):
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> defaults write com.ctmdev.foxtrot Aliases -array-add "{type='txt';
> headers=(); as='';}"
>
> to reset to the default settings:
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> defaults delete com.ctmdev.FoxTrot Aliases
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> Jérôme - CTM Engineering
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