SWIM works on a lot of different Ableton Live projects and has more than 25,000 '.asd'-files on their computer. On macOS dot-files are hidden by default in finder, does anyone know if it's possible to hide files in finder depending on their extension/filetype?
Hide specific filetypes in finder
filefinder
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Best Answer
With a huge help from nohillside, here's a quick fix:
Remember to test run on a test folder.
First command uses
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to not to override existing logs, it always appends content to the file.To undo the hidden flags,
The log file might not be of immediate use since you might move or delete some files. If you use the older file for unhiding the files, some of them might throw errors.