Drop File Filters Dialog

This dialog allows you to filter out selected files that are added or dropped onto FAR.

Introduction

When a folder is dropped onto FAR, FAR creates a file list by crawling through all folders and subfolders. These three filters help you control which files end up in the file list. If any folders or files are excluded by any filter, those files will not be included. Files and folders of an excluded folder are also excluded.

Suppose you want to perform find and replace on all HTML files of a web. Simply set the "Only Include Files" filter to ".HT*" and drop the webs root folder onto FAR. The result is a list of all HTML files. If you want to also exclude  FrontPage management folders then you could specify a Skip Folder filter of "_vti*".

You could also use the Windows Find File dialog to first create a filtered file list, and then drop them onto FAR.

Filter Set

Once you have set up your filters (below) you can save them away under a name. Type in a name and press Save. Press Remove to remove the current Filter Set. To recall a setup, drop the drop down control and select a Filter Set. Anytime you change the filters you should press Save to make the change permanent . Pressing OK also does the save action.

FAR filters are very basic. Your choices are:

• a file extension eg. ".ext" (same as *.ext). Finds any files with that file ext.
• a full file name eg. BuildAll.Bat
• a file name containing a single "*" char and one or more "?" chars.
  "?" matches any single character and "*" matches any string of characters including an empty string.
  Example: "Build*.L?? will find Build.log, Build001.log, Build.L01 etc

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Skip Folders

Specify which folders to ignore. To enable this feature "Enable Filtering Of Folders" must be checked.

Skip Files

Specify which files to ignore. To enable this feature "Enable Filtering Of Files" must be checked.

Only Include Files

Specify which files to include. To enable this feature "Only Include Specified Files" must be checked.

Right click a listbox to add, edit or remove items. Only checked items are part of the filter. If no items are checked then the filter is effectively disabled.

Enable Filtering Checkbox

The checkbox at the bottom of the dialog is a master switch for enabling or disabling filtering. When uncheck the filtering controls are hidden and filtering is disabled.

OK, Cancel, Help

OK - Press OK to except changes, save and close the window.
Cancel - Press Cancel to dismiss the dialog and cancel any changes.
Help - Press Help to get this online help.

Example:

Filter #1: Skip all "_vti*" folders.
Filter #2: Skip all "tmp*, logfile.htm" files.
Filter #3: Only Include ".ht*" files

When a web site is dropped onto FAR:
First filter #1 takes out all folders with names starting with a "_vti". This will include all files and sub folders found within "_vti*" folders.
Next filter #2 takes out all files with a name starting with "tmp" and with the name "logfile.htm".
Next filter #3 takes out all files that do not have a file extension of ".ht*".