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

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Another use case, that this feature request would resolve: hiding temporary files created by Microsoft Office. Why should Obsidian index or display them at all?

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

What I’m trying to do I’m using MS office files within my vault have them settled just next to my notes. When opening the files with MS Word or MS Excel there are usually temporary files created. As these additional files make the list view in file explorer quite cluttered and are additinally popping up when searching, I need a way to exclude them from showing in Obsidian. I thought about filtering these files by the inital “~” or “~$”. [grafik] For example the following files should be exclud…