A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
Are all the .asd files created by Ableton Live cluttering up your sample folder view, too? Yeah, I know – it is annoying. We need them but we don't have to see them.
An easy tip on how to hide them on a Mac:
• do a search for .asd on the root of your HD to find them anywhere
• open Terminal and type "chflags hidden" (without quotes)
• drag and drop all the .asd files that Finder found onto Terminal window
• hit Enter
Boom. Now they're hidden.
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Re: A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
Sounds great.
But to be sure of what i'm doing, can you explain what "chflag hidden" does ?
But to be sure of what i'm doing, can you explain what "chflag hidden" does ?
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Re: A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
ok i got it. The drag & drop on terminal window hides the dropped files.
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Re: A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
You can also set an Automator script to run that searches for .asd the hides all the selected files.
FInd Finder Items
any content with .asd
the Run Shell Script
while read f ; do
chflags hidden "$f"
done
FInd Finder Items
any content with .asd
the Run Shell Script
while read f ; do
chflags hidden "$f"
done
Re: A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
I've used this one-liner on my Mac using with Bash 5 and iTerm:
sudo find /path/to/samples/ -name "*.asd" -exec chflags hidden {} \;
Replace "/path/to/samples/" with the path to your sample folder, of course.
sudo find /path/to/samples/ -name "*.asd" -exec chflags hidden {} \;
Replace "/path/to/samples/" with the path to your sample folder, of course.
Re: A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
doest this trick work for all newly created asd files or just the ones already on your computer?
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Re: A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
Anyone know how to do that on windows?
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Re: A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
Windows 10
win+r - enter cmd enter
Then in Windows Console ...
And so on ...
win+r - enter cmd enter
Then in Windows Console ...
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C:\Users\tomas>cd ..
C:\Users>cd ..
C:\>attrib.exe +h /s *.asd
F:\
F:\>attrib.exe +h /s *.asd
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Re: A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
really cool, thx
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Re: A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
can anyone advise how to undo this process? just incase something gets broken and you need to unhide everything again
edit: ok figured it out so here's a few points for guidance
-don't press enter after typing "chflags hidden". drag & drop files, then press enter.
-this won't hide files if you search for them, so searching ".asd" will always show the files, even though they are hidden in folders
-so to make them visible again, type "chflags nohidden", search ".asd", drag & drop the files you want visible and press enter
edit: ok figured it out so here's a few points for guidance
-don't press enter after typing "chflags hidden". drag & drop files, then press enter.
-this won't hide files if you search for them, so searching ".asd" will always show the files, even though they are hidden in folders
-so to make them visible again, type "chflags nohidden", search ".asd", drag & drop the files you want visible and press enter