File name filtering / partial cloaking

I've been using the files section to maintain sites uploading
on FTP and am used to it. I block some local folders from being
uploaded by cloaking them.
Here's my issue : Some script is creating files in a
directory that contains files I need to access so I can't cloak it.
The file names don't have an extension and have an ID (#) in it so
it's not always the same.
Is there some sort of filtering which I could apply to some
folders, something like partial cloaking and/or partial allow which
could use regex (regular expression) like DW cool find tool ?

Would it be a monster job to move the files needing access to
a non-cloaked
folder and let DW adjust the paths?
"DynV" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:gbmigo$qg$[email protected]..
> I've been using the files section to maintain sites
uploading on FTP and
> am
> used to it. I block some local folders from being
uploaded by cloaking
> them.
>
> Here's my issue : Some script is creating files in a
directory that
> contains
> files I need to access so I can't cloak it. The file
names don't have an
> extension and have an ID (#) in it so it's not always
the same.
>
> Is there some sort of filtering which I could apply to
some folders,
> something
> like partial cloaking and/or partial allow which could
use regex (regular
> expression) like DW cool find tool ?
>
>

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