Hiding temporary MS Office files (~$xyz) in file explorer (CSS? regex?)

[harr]

The “Excluded files” setting doesn’t hide things in the file browser — reread its description.

This option and its description make little sense. Why call it “excluded files”, when it does anything but exclude files?

OP’s question is one of the many use cases that could easily be resolved by an option that would in fact exclude files:

Ignore/exclude completely files or a folder from all obsidian indexers and parsers

“Excluded files” option doesn’t quite work for me as the most annoying features of having an unwillingly indexed folder for me are not excluded from parsers Use case or problem Im currently hosting my obsidian vault in Mega, Mega currently uses a folder called “Rubbish” for local cache, hosted, in this case, inside the vault. The rubbish folder i cannot deactivate in any way nor rename it to “.rubbish” (for obsidian to ignore it) as the service just creates a “rubbish” folder again Problem is…