Let say you have a group of files and folders from a find. Also, you also have a previous collection from the same parent directory. Is it possible to exclude the members of the collection from the current find? Thanks
Checking I've understood correctly: You want to search some folders based on some critiera, and exclude any files/folders which are already in another collection?
I can't think of a direct way of doing that, although it's probably possible with scripting. (Definitely possible, but I'm not sure how easy it would be.)
My Command posted just now may solve your needs by trying the command "Unpack MODE=view". Just see it in the Button/Scripts block.
Just had to think about it more. I simply can open the collection I want to exclude in another Lister/Tab. Then I can apply a color label to all. Then in the current find I can sort it by the color label and deselect everything else. This program, its staff, its community does not stop being super. Thanks
Thanks so much for reply. I will check it out as another option.
If I understand you correctly, I would suggest having the Search result in the Source pane/lister, and the existing Collection in the destination pane/lister, then from the menu, Edit->Select Other->Select Source not-in-Destination (You could even bind that to a Button or hot key)
This should Select all the files in the Source pane/lister which don't appear in the Destination lister.
This appears to work well with folders and collections.
Oh,I am sorry for misunderstanding it,looking on "exclude" as "explode".
SuperDuper thanks for the info on how to do this. This is very helpful to know about. Tell me what would happen with files if they were inside a folder? Thanks
Try it and see? Let us know how it goes!
After testing I find that it has no effect. The folder still copies, moves, deletes with all contents. Which makes sense. However, the good news because Opus has the super option of Grouped (grouped by location), you can use this with the feature you showed. This is nice. Thanks so much