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Forum: Wishes and new features

Topic: Add an option to exclude specific folders from folder search
As stated in the title.

I'm currently exploring how to make my Virtual Folder structure more easily searchable via search_folder use.

There are general search folder include options, but I couldn't find something specific enough to remove specific folders from the search.

My use case = I have a list folder dedicated to holding gig list folders, and I have list folder dedicated to holding list folders/filter folders of songs that I am currently preparing for general use in the collection (e.g. adding custom tags/cues, etc). It would be nice if I could make these not show up in the results (its contents should be excluded as well) - a right-click exclusion/inclusion (default = include) and/or general option would be helpful.
 
geposted 5 days ago @ 4:14 pm
DJ VinylTouch wrote :
As stated in the title.

I'm currently exploring how to make my Virtual Folder structure more easily searchable via search_folder use.

There are general search folder include options, but I couldn't find something specific enough to remove specific folders from the search.

My use case = I have a list folder dedicated to holding gig list folders, and I have list folder dedicated to holding list folders/filter folders of songs that I am currently preparing for general use in the collection (e.g. adding custom tags/cues, etc). It would be nice if I could make these not show up in the results (its contents should be excluded as well) - a right-click exclusion/inclusion (default = include) and/or general option would be helpful.


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I thought maybe you could do this by sectioning myLists into 2 parent lists [active , dontInclude] and then specifying myLists:\active in folderSearchOptions and omitting myLists
but it appears not.
I still think it possible using janky list names for the stuff you want to omit like
_m_y_p_r_e_p_l_i_s_t_1_ , so that a normal search wouldn't get a hit but that's a lot of jank

Actually in testing, I'm not sure what
setting folderSearchAdditionalListFolders
is actually doing, option populated like so
M:\Music, C:\Users\user\Downloads\DL Music, mylists:\search results

And this being empty
setting folderSearchOptions ""

I'd expect results from specified folders [avoiding the machine wide search that "local music" returns, that includes literal windows folders, sys32 etc] but get zero returns.
Maybe I'm using it wrong.
 
"Search folders" doesn't search folders on your system.
Instead it searches for all "lists" and also the folders inside your database.
If your database doesn't contain any media inside "Windows" or "System32" or "SysWOW64" folders, then these folders are not part of the database and they will not appear on the search results.
 
Also:

Typically your "playlists" are saved inside "MyLists" folder on VirtualDJ home folder of each drive.

However there are some users that store the majority of their playlists on a different location.
E.G.: D:\Music\Playlists and not D:\VirtualDJ\MyLists or D:\VirtualDJ\folders
In this case, this user can use the folderSearchAdditionalListFolders setting to point to the D:\Music\Playlists folder, so that VirtualDJ looks for PLAYLISTS inside this folder.
 
ah must have been a stray recurse C:\ that did that *goes looking in DB*

Is it limited to lists/playlist returns, as even with info given you'd expect folders with partial name of search query to return with settings as is.