Can you make a folder and it's contents temporarily "invisible"---sort of?

Can I make a folder and it's contents, temporarily invisible? I don't mean I don't want to see it. I mean I want to make it such that if an automated process was scanning my computer, it temporarily wouldn't see that folder and it's contents.
For instance, let's say I have a folder on an external firewire drive containing video files. And I'm going to run a batch process or automation that says: "Look at everything on that external drive and move it to another designated location"...but I don't want it to move one folder. And I have several folders on the external drive and I need to keep making some of the folders "visible" to the process or "invisible".
I know I can physically move the individual folders to another location temporarily, run the process, and then copy them back...but I'm trying to determine if there is anything built into OSX 10.6 that
lets you identify a folder and temporarily make it and it's contents "invisible" in the sense that I described above.
To be clear, I don't need the folder to actually disappear...I just need it to be "jumped over" or ignored by any batch processes that would be scanning the external drive, and after I run the process, I want to make it "visible" again.
Thanks in advance for any input.

brvideo wrote:
One question about this....I notice that there are three READ/WRITE options:
One for my particular user name, one for STAFF and one for EVERYONE.
Do I need to change all three, or just EVERYONE to WRITE.
You normally wouldn't want to change the rights to your name in a situation like this. What you'd want is to have the other app logon to your computer with a different username, (you have to create the additional user in System Preferences,) then change the privileges for that username. This would eliminate the need for you to have to change the settings all the time.
In addition, if you make a mistake, you could prevent any access by your username, which means you'd have to logon as some other administrative user in order to fix your username's privileges. This is why I said I wouldn't recommend this as a first choice.
And are there any keyboard shortcuts for this?
No, but I imagine you could create an Applescript to do this. But as I said above, if you have the process use a different username, then set the appropriate privileges for that username, you wouldn't need to change the rights all the time. Just set them once the first time.

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