Exclude .sub-folders/files from an import

Is it possible to exclude specific file types (e.g. .CR2 raw files)/folders from every Import into iPhoto '11

You can download to disk using image capture (in your applications folder) and then import only the photos you want from there
iPhoto does offer an option to select by file type
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How can I EXCLUDE particular folders/files from being included in the Lightroom 5 catalog?

How can I EXCLUDE particular folders/files from being included in the Lightroom 5 catalog?
I want to be able to specify paths and/or filename patterns that should NEVER be indexed in the catalog: not that they don't show up under certain circumstances, just that they are NOT THERE (in the catalog) to begin with!!
I also do NOT want to have to respecify these criteria when "synching" the catalog; criteria should be PERMANENT (or at least 'til they're changed in LR preferences).
I cannot be the only person in the world with this problem--but it sure seems like it, because I've spent an inordinate amount of time doing online searches & I can't find anything that addresses this issue.
Can anyone PLEASE HELP me?
BTW, Adobe employees (if there are any of you out there), I'm simply trying out LR now. If I can't get this (seemingly fundamental) thing worked out (with relatively little effort), Adobe is going to LOSE A SALE of LR, because it's useless to me without this feature.
Thanks,
-t

Thanks for the info... but how to you TELL LR to EXCLUDE images in a particular directory/directory structure? The intuitive place to indicate this would be a right-click on the folder itself (or particular images), but no such option exists.. "???" Thanks again, -pt
The same way that you avoid buying things in your local convenience store. You don't stick a lot of labels on certain shelves, slap a credit card down on the counter each week, and announce you are buying everything that doesn't have a label on its shelf. You just choose the things you want to buy.
Your mention of "synching the catalog" suggests that you are expecting the LR library, to mirror the total images in the computer by default. This is not IMO a useful way to think about it. LR contains no images at all, by default: the Catalog starts out empty.
Then you Add just those selected images that you want to import, among those already in the computer. That's a one-off process which is IMO best achieved controllably in batches - which you can keyword and otherwise organise in LR terms as you go. For new incoming images, ongoing, it is a question of Copying, Moving or Adding these in defined batches as they occur - from the relevant location only - there is no need to re-consider the import of a wider body of images. And one would not want to repeat that whole task anyway: one's prior investment in achieving the right selectivity, has a positive value.
RP

My webhost had me delete my TBird account, and create a new account. How do I get my folders & files from my Hardrive back to TB? THANKS!

My webhost had me delete my ThunderBird POP3 account, and create a new ThunderBird IMAP account.
This took all my folders and files out of Thunderbird!!!
I know where all my folders and files are located on my hard drive.
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When you delete a Pop mail account, it disappears from the Account Settings and Folder Pane, but fortunately it still exists in the Profile folder unless you had removed it.
Ideally, you should have moved all the emails into 'Local Folders' before removing the account.
You could use this addon tool to import messages into 'Local Folders' account.
'''ImportExportTools: '''
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/
Download the .xpi file and save to desktop or Downloads folder.
'''To install addon:'''
In Thunderbird
'Tools' > 'Addons' OR 'Menu icon' > 'Addons'
* click on the gear wheel icon and select 'Install addon from file'
* Locate and select the .xpi file you downloaded and click on 'Open'.
* After installing you will need to restart Thunderbird to activate.
In 'Local Folders' create some folders with suitable names.
Right click on folder > ImportExportTools
There are a couple of Options on importing
See image below as example aid.

Smart Folder search - Exclude sub folders?

When creating a Smart Folder is it possible to exclude sub folders of the folder you're searching, or a particular folder?

There is no way to reference a folder in Spotlight. That item cannot be used in a query.
kMDItemPath
Complete path to the file. This value of this attribute can be retrieved, but can't be used in a query or to sort search results.

Howto make created folders/ files from one teacher, read only for other teachers?

Hello there,
as an admin @ school I was wondering how to make created folders/ files from one teacher, read only for other teachers?
- In a 2008domain, created a group "teachers"
- created a folder "teacher data" where all teachers have read/write permissions
ideal,a teacher who make's a folder in "teacher data" should be the only oen who is able to add file's to that folder and dele that folder or files. Other teachers may be able to read the content of the folder.
Is this possible to set up and how?
many thanks.
Nico.
rds

Hi Nico,
You could set the permissions below to resolve the issue:
For the root folder "teacher data": give the full control permission to CREATOR OWNER – "Subfolders and files only" and give the read/write permissions to the group "teachers"– "This folder only".
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How to restrict access to sub folders (apart from Manual settings)?

Hi,
Is there any method to stop the group traverse from main Folder to sub folder when user group has access to main folder?
So that no need to give no access to sub folders manually for given group.
Manual access settings have become tedious due to large number of sub folder and user groups.
Scenario:-
There is a main Folder F1 and it has 100 Sub Folder SF1 to SF100. And these sub folders has child folders.
Group G1 should have access only F1, and should not have the access its child folders.
How can we eliminate manual work to remove access for each group at each sub-folder level?
Thanks,
Anu

Access restrictons by default are inherited from parent folders downward.
You can break the inheritance, but you'll still need to manualy setup initial security.
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Copying folders & files from case-sensitive to non-case-sensitive volume

I'm trying to copy a rather large (60+ GB), folder and all its enclosed items from a volume that is has case sensitive file names to one that does not. The copy operation always stops when it comes across a duplicate file/folder name differing only in the case of some of the characters. The folders/files in question are actually not duplicates, so I would like to change the file name of the duplicate by appending anything to the filename.
The copy operation does not provide any choice but to abort the operation when it finds the first identical file or folder name differing only in case..
Any suggestions?

Unfortunately, that is not a viable solution, as I am tring to convert a case sensitive volume to a non-case sensitive volume.
What I would like is a method to copy files and when a duplicate occurs it asks me what to do like rename the second duplicate. However this problem is now moot, as I painstakingly renamed each offending file/folder as each error occured, and then restarted the copy.
While the question is not answered, I am marking it as such because I am now past the problem.
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[SOLVED] How to Restore Folders/Files from a Hard Drive

I broke my system today; it won't boot into any run level. Rather than try to fix it, I'd like to just pull off the 4 or 5 MB of files that are on the hard drive. The partition they are in was formatted XFS. I have the 2008.06 ArchLive CD - is it possible to access files from the hard drive after booting with an ArchLive CD? If so, I could just scp them to an external server. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Last edited by tony5429 (2008-09-28 04:52:39)

You should be able to mount the partition once you've loaded up the live CD. Just figure out which one it is by using
fdisk -l
then mount it to /mnt or wherever you want it.
As for moving/saving them, I'm not entirely sure how to get them onto an external server. You might have to mount another partition in order to install any apps that you need to connect to an external server, but wait for someone who really knows to answer before you try it. If you're only talking about 4 or 5 MB, I would just mount a USB stick and dump them on there.
Last edited by Xyne (2008-09-28 03:38:02)

Is there a way to remove folders & files from the backup?

i moved a bunch of file that was on two external drives to a larger single external... is there a way to get rid of the backups from the two original externals and free up some space on backup drive?

Enter Time Machine, navigate to the files you want to delete, select them, click the gear button, and then click "Remove all backups of...".

Some iTunes library files showing as an unknown file type - different files from same import...

Haven't been able to find a similar problem on here, but apologies if this is a repetition of another discussion.
Some of the files in my Itunes library popped up with the little exclamation mark next to them, so I attempted to locate them. It's been a patchy problem since transferring from PC to Mac, but has just been an issue of pointing Itunes to the right file.
However, in this instance when I navigate through to the files in the folder they aren't showing as the same file type as the music that is playing in the library - I just get a blank page icon.
What's confusing me is that these aren't different file types or from different sources. They're maybe 3 tracks out of a whole album that is playing fine, that were all ripped from the same CD at the same time.
I've no idea why the Itunes is seeing some of these files differently. Any ideas?

Looked at in the HD they're all showing as M4P. I'm sure it's the way the software is viewing the files, and not the files themselves. Itunes does offer to find the others, but then does a really crappy job of doing so - missing files in the same album in the same folder.
I've cracked the original file problem by pointing Itunes to the files by going through the MacHD route, so now I'm just wrestling with thousands of missing files that I know are sitting right next to the files that aren't missing!
I might just resign myself to ploughing through and fixing it, sorting the patchy artwork at the same time. If I do a purge at the same time I can convince myself that I'm not wasting my life!

RH10: Renaming topic files from FM import

I have an RH 10 project that is created using FrameMaker as single source (I have the techcomm suite). I want to output in WebHelp format.
I have another post about getting RH to output the topic files in HTML, however, if no one has a solution to that, I thought I would rename the files in RH.
However, I have no Rename option, as RH Help says I should. in the Properties dialog box, the name is grayed out.
Is this because the file names are autogenerated during the Frame Book Import?
Is there any way to rename files given my project setup?
Thanks to anyone who can help!
--Amy

Thread move to FrameMaker Integration forum.
I don't think you can freely rename the files for the reason you state. However you can have them created to a formula. It is in the online help and in the topic on my site about Importing and Linking Word documents, it is the same process for this point.
I am not a FM user so maybe one of those guys can add more.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
@petergrainge

Time Machine Feature Request: Rules to exclude Folders/Files

Hi.
I think its important to have rules for excluding folders/files from tm-backup in the next version of OS X (Snow Leopard).
Example: "Do not backup Folders/files which name begins with a specified character + location is "desktop".
So i have a better control of which files are in the backup. For example temporary big files on my desktop.
Best regards, Andre

Well, it's really no secret, macmatic , and the page I linked above derives from this one that contains many more feedback page links:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Smart Folders: Possible to exclude specific sub-folders?

I want to create a smart folder that shows all documents opened in the past two weeks within my user folder, but I want to exclude my browser cache and various Library files.
Is there a way to exclude certain sub-folders from a smart search? I'd like to figure this out because it would be really useful to me in other ways too.
Thanks.

Unless you have done a little hack you should not see any files from your ~/Library folder in a search, unless you explicitly tell Spotlight to display system files. Browser files are included if you start your search from the Spotlight icon. But if you start with a search window by invoking it with Command-F that won't happen. There is no way I know of to exclude sub-folders in a search. Try this and see if it returns what you want:
1. Open your home folder
2. Hit Command-F
3. Select your home folder rather than the idiotic default of This Mac in the search toolbar
4. Underneath that you should see Kind:is:Any--click the double arrows and change Any to Documents
5. Click the + button
6. Select "Last opened date" from the drop down menu, then "with last" and fill in 2, then select "weeks" from the final drop down menu
Be aware that the definition of "Documents" is pretty much everything, from Word docs to html files, to jpegs, tiffs, text files, pdfs, and so on.
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When importing photos it always creates sub folders. I do NOT want that.

How do I stop it from creating sub folders every time I import photos?

Have a look at thei video on importing: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/getting-started-with-adobe-photoshop-lightroom-5/lightroom-5-imp orting-your-images/

Again: UDF: Load file from "imported archives"

Hi everybody,
I tried to read a txt-File from the "imported archives".
The following does not work:
try {
+     FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream(Filename);+
+     DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(fstream);+
+     BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));+
} catch (Exception e) {// Catch exception if any
+     return "Error: " + e.getMessage();+
}//catch
return "test";
I get the error:
abc.txt (No such file or directory)
Any ideas?
regards Mario

Hi roberti,
it is possible!
I found some coding that works:
     String returnString="";
     byte[] buffer;
     try {
          InputStream is = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(filename);
          buffer = new byte [is.available()];
          is.read (buffer);
          returnString = new String (buffer, "ISO-8859-1");
     catch (Exception e) {
          returnString = e.getMessage();
     return returnString;
Unfortunately this coding gets the whole file in once. But I need the single lines.
Thats why I tried to use FileInputStream instead on InputStream
Any idea?
Regards Mario

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