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A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 4:48 pm
by Fanu
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
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 5:18 pm
by Tarekith
Great tip!
Re: A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 8:49 pm
by [jur]
Nice, thanks!
Re: A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 7:08 am
by chapelier fou
Sounds great.
But to be sure of what i'm doing, can you explain what "chflag hidden" does ?
Re: A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 7:10 am
by chapelier fou
ok i got it. The drag & drop on terminal window hides the dropped files.
Re: A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2019 2:39 pm
by CREMDELAKRUG
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
Re: A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 8:06 pm
by sqyttles
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.
Re: A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2021 7:29 pm
by dedmunds
doest this trick work for all newly created asd files or just the ones already on your computer?
Re: A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:58 am
by baseinstinct
Anyone know how to do that on windows?
Re: A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2021 2:52 pm
by tomasmark79
Windows 10
win+r - enter cmd enter
Then in Windows Console ...
Code: Select all
C:\Users\tomas>cd ..
C:\Users>cd ..
C:\>attrib.exe +h /s *.asd
F:\
F:\>attrib.exe +h /s *.asd
And so on ...
Re: A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2021 3:31 am
by baseinstinct
really cool, thx
Re: A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
Posted: Fri May 28, 2021 7:02 am
by holygroove!
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
Re: A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 11:59 pm
by donito
This is still the best way to hide them ? I think the option to automatically hide them should be a feature request if it ain't already. I'll just disable their creation until then. I think a M1 mac studio could survive without it, let's see.
Re: A quick tip on how to hide all the numerous .asd files
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 3:55 pm
by brianwdowling
I disabled the creation quite a while ago and haven't had any issues. Using both M1 Mac and an older 2019 Intel Mac.
Brian