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Explorer Exclude

Explorer Exclude

Peter Schmalfeldt

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Explorer Exclude lets you easily Hide Files & Folders with Dynamic Filter Options. Add a New 'Hidden Items' Explorer Pane for you to Manage and Quickly Toggle Visibility of Hidden Items.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Explorer Exclude - VS Code Extension

Context Menu and Explorer Panel to Manage Showing & Hiding Excluded Files & Folders ( for VS Code version 1.60 or newer )

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  • [X] Easily Hide Files & Folders from Explorer, Search Results & Quick Open
  • [X] New Hidden Items Explorer Pane to Manage Hidden Items
  • [X] Works with Multiple Workspaces
  • [X] Quickly Toggle Visibility of Hidden Items
  • [X] Translations for VS Code Supported Locales: ( English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Portuguese & Turkish )

Usage

Hiding Files & Folders

Right-click on any File or Folder in Explorer List to Hide Items

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Select Filter Options you wish to Hide Files & Folders

picker

You can disable the filter option popup, and by default only allow the selected item to be hidden, by adding this setting in VSCode:

"explorerExclude.showPicker": false

Managing Hidden Files & Folders

New HIDDEN ITEMS Explorer Pane to Manage Hidden Files:

  • Click an item in the Hidden Items pane to quickly toggle its visibility
  • Right-click an item to view Context Menu where you can Permanently Remove item
  • Use Hidden Items Menu to manage multiple items at once

view-pane pane-menu

Need Help?

Check out or Troubleshooting Page for help with any known issues or report new ones.

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About the Author

Peter Schmalfeldt is a Certified Senior Salesforce Commerce Cloud Developer with over 20 years of experience building eCommerce websites, providing everything you need to design, develop & deploy eCommerce applications for Web, Mobile & Desktop platforms.

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