How to discard filetypes from the Transit Zone synchronisation

Introduction

In some cases certain filetypes are unwanted and are generated automatically in conjunction with other filetypes e.g. Thumbs.db, .identifier and others.

This article explains how to ignore such filetypes in the Transit Zone.

Show filetypes on the Transit Zone synchronisation ignore list

List all files on the ignore list

CODE

visulox config list -name transitsync.ignore.globs

VISULOX default configuration will show:

CODE

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    | changed | parameter                |  type | value                                            |
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    |         | transitsync.ignore.globs | FIXED | *.tmp *.swp *.bak *.part Thumbs.db               |
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Add filetypes to the Transit Zone synchronisation ignore list

As seen above, there are already filetypes on the list. Filetypes that should be ignored can be added to this default list. In this example we add ".identifier" to the list.

Add filetypes to the ignore list

CODE

visulox config edit -name transitsync.ignore.globs="*.tmp *.swp *.bak *.part Thumbs.db *.identifier" -force

VISULOX confirms changes to the ignore list by showing the new value

New ignore list

CODE

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------    
    | changed | parameter                |  type | value                                            |
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    | changed | transitsync.ignore.globs | FIXED | *.tmp *.swp *.bak *.part Thumbs.db *.identifier  |
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

From now on files with the extension ".identifier" will be ignored by the Transit Zone synchronisation

The Transit Zone ignore list can also be configured with regular expressions.

CODE

visulox config list -name transitsync.ignore.regexps
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    | changed | parameter                  |  type | value |
    --------------------------------------------------------
    |         | transitsync.ignore.regexps | FIXED |       |
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