Show / hide file types to be shown in file explorer

Feature requests
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Use case or problem

I don’t use assets folders. Instead I rename all assets the same name as the file ending with a number, and put them in the same folder. If I need to move a file outside Obsidian I instantly know which other files to grab.

In Windows explorer I have a batch file that auto hides everything except the md files, and with Explorer set to “hide files” (the left column in the screenshot)I get a nice clean look of my md files, but it’s just a click of a mouse to display all hidden files if I must (the right column)

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I would like a similar “hidden items” type checkbox for my Obsidian navigation pane on the left. I need to display the png and jpg etc files when I first save them in my folder so that I can select them and rename them the same as the relevant md file. But once that’s done, they just all get in the way.

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Proposed solution

Perhaps this is a plugin issue, in which case I trust the moderators to move my request.

The best solution is to have a simple checkbox at the top of the navigation pane where we currently have the following

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It would just show/hide hidden items. Of course there would be a setting to determine which extensions we want to show/hide.

Current workaround (optional)

None that I can see.

Just found this similar thread: Show / hide file types to be shown in file explorer

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Implementing something like this would be great and I think grow to a large software engineer community

Use Case
Markdown files within a code base that have ReadMe.md in subfolders or projects. I have tried this currently with Obsidian with my Home Lab and personal projects folder but it slows Obsidian way down, almost to unusable levels.

If I could put in a .obignore file just like .gitignore in git, then I could keep everything out that is just extra to the codebase.

The only thing currently available is to ignore a whole folder and that becomes way too cumbersome with multiple projects. This reason alone took me away from using the mobile version as it kept freezing up.

Hopefully this can get some traction!!
Thanks for an awesome platform thus far!

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I was going to suggest exactly that: some way to ignore/hide folders/files using a gitignore-like syntax.

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I know this is old, but I just spent several hours browsing the forum because I was too dense to find both of these features in settings. I don’t how long they’ve been there, but they work exactly as expected on v. 0.14.6. Wow…what devs–what a product!

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So there is a way to do this now? I cannot find it in the settings… Can you advice where to find it?

Thanks!

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The solution is you make a custom css file to config which kind of file should appear.

div[data-path$='.png']{
	display: none;
}

You can read more in this question

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I tweaked the above css to establish the following:

  • Paste Screenshots to a Page in a folder.
  • The Screenshot File is stored in the root of the vault with Filename like “Pasted image 20221114171851.png”
  • Mark the Screenshot File in grey as a candidate for manual move.
  • Move this image file manually to the same folder as the page with the embedded folder
  • Hide the Screenshot File in the Folder to keep the File Explorer clean.

This is established by adding this css to your themes css file:

/* Hide Image Files selective */

/* Format Pasted Image in any folder and root */ 
div[data-path*="Pasted image"]{
  display: none;
}

/* Format Pasted Image in the Root */
  div[data-path^="Pasted image"]{
    color: #9999996e;
    display: flex;
  }

I am no css expert, feedback for improving the css is always appreciated.

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