Turn off previews for office ~$ files

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I tried searching around but this is surisingly difficult to search for--I generally want to see hidden files/folders but if I have the preview pane open sometimes dopus will attempt to preview the temp office files like ~$24W1-Teaching Assistant Duties and Allocation of Hours.docx.

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When this happens it chokes opus, office launches a window for me to "pick the region that makes the file compatible" and it sometimes crashes office and opus. I can turn off previews for dotx but I don't want to do that; I want to turn off preview for the temp files. Any thoughts?

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It's a bug in Microsoft's Word preview handler. You'll see the same issue within File Explorer.

I'll see if we can make our viewer pane ignore ~$*.doc* files with the hidden attribute set, which should work around the issue. I doubt Microsoft will ever fix it themselves as they don't fix or care about anything except scamming people into using OneDrive/Bing/Edge. :slight_smile:

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It might be useful to add an advanced exclude list/option if it's not a lot of work, but that's just an offhand idea

Indeed, I'm coming here after several requests to microsoft forum, and one that was ignored and 2 closed.

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p.s.

might want to also exclude these other office ones:

~$*.ppt*
~$*.xsl*

if it helps these are other temp files i use in syncthing: (ignore the (?d)

*.temporary
*.tmp
*._mp
*.old
*.syd
*.dir
*.gid
*.chk
*.dmp
*.nch
.*.swp
(?d)ehthumbs.db
(?d)Thumbs.db
(?d)$RECYCLE.BIN
(?d)System Volume Information
(?d)*.cab
(?d)*.msi
(?d)*.msix
(?d)*.msm
(?d)*.msp
(?d)@eaDir
.dropbox
.dropbox.attr
*.part
*.crdownload
*.*.sw[a-p]
(?d).directory
(?d).Trash-*
(?d).nomedia