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Hi Don,

of course, I did a search, but it might have been a bad one.

Anyway, is there a way to connect Visual Filters with Folder View Settings?

I want to exclude so called sidekick files (simply .xmp files generated by Lightroom or any other image editor supporting this standard) from my default image folder view setting. I'm pretty shure, I missed the point and that's already possible, but I've somehow lost the way.

I want to turn this view into that standard view for a given folder and its children. Is that possible?


Thanks & cheers,
Filehero

Going by the help file, FVS indeed doesn't support Visual Filters. I can think of some (crude) workarounds:
1. set a Home for the relevant tab or tabs:

XYplorer help file wrote:Each tab can have its own "Home", defined by a browse/find location and mode, and the file list settings.

2. if you don't have hidden and/or system files showing, you could apply one of those attributes to the files you want out of sight.

Hi nas8e9,

thanks for the pointers.


Cheers,
Filehero

FYI, a leading "!" will invert the visual filter: Visual Filters & Folder View Settings ... might be an idea for later...

admin wrote:FYI, a leading "!" will invert the visual filter:

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!*.xmp

Thanks from a blind man.

My solution:
Defining the visual filter !*.xmp and restoring it with Ctrl-Shift-J each time I dig into another image folder. This approach is easy and straightforward because the last active visual filter together with the filter history is stored across sessions.


Cheers,
Filehero

admin wrote:Visual Filters & Folder View Settings ... might be an idea for later...

Aren't we closer to this? It could be attached to the View mode. I have been waiting for it for a long time. Actually I work with application which automatically creates backup files to a folder. How nice would be if I could eliminate them from the list without intervention by using FVS View Mode...

While waiting for FVS with VF, there's still the trick of using tabsets...
Sure, it resets your whole pane, but depending on the way you work, it can be impressively efficient - especially for picture management and backups, where one usually uses the same sets of folders per project.
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With one session for backups, one for transfers, one for pictures-export, and several for projects, etc. including their specific locked/home tabs... and filtered tabs which are stored with tabsets!

I know that's not exactly what you asked for, but in the meantime that's worth a try. And I can vouch for the efficiency of tabsets (or sessions) in that regard!

Have a nice day,
Flux

LittleBiG wrote:

admin wrote:Visual Filters & Folder View Settings ... might be an idea for later...

Aren't we closer to this? It could be attached to the View mode. I have been waiting for it for a long time. Actually I work with application which automatically creates backup files to a folder. How nice would be if I could eliminate them from the list without intervention by using FVS View Mode...

Currently not on my hot list. Generally the next weeks will be a bit calmer than usual; I'll take a creative time-out (self de- ) and also go into meditation mode on some incredibly mind-blowing features that will finally blast away the competition for good.