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NiLuJe · 09-21-2019, 11:17 AM

@frostschutz: You'll have to walk me through that one... o_O

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EDIT: Thanks! Ooh, that's sneaky xD.

EDIT²: Thankfully, as we found out with the preload hack, blacklisting a toplevel hidden folder is enough to make it entirely non-traversable. But this could still be useful for more esoteric directory structures

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@baskerville: Yeah, the idea was to let the default patterns do their stuff for adobe/kobo folders. Again, not 100% convinced it makes any difference in practice (at least for my use cases), in which case, (EDIT: a top-level only variant of) what you proposed (i.e., \..*? [-> \\..*? in the config] once you account for the full pattern) works just fine.

09-21-2019, 11:17 AM	#28
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,482 Karma: 26012494 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	@frostschutz: You'll have to walk me through that one... o_O . EDIT: Thanks! Ooh, that's sneaky xD. EDIT²: Thankfully, as we found out with the preload hack, blacklisting a toplevel hidden folder is enough to make it entirely non-traversable. But this could still be useful for more esoteric directory structures ... @baskerville: Yeah, the idea was to let the default patterns do their stuff for adobe/kobo folders. Again, not 100% convinced it makes any difference in practice (at least for my use cases), in which case, (EDIT: a top-level only variant of) what you proposed (i.e., \..? [-> \\..? in the config] once you account for the full pattern) works just fine. Last edited by NiLuJe; 09-21-2019 at 12:48 PM. Reason: Oops, fixed it.