Excluding file types

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I need a way to exclude specific file types from showing up in the editor as assets (‘.max’, ‘.psd’ etc for example).

I’m exporting .fbx from 3ds Max and various file types that are NOT .psd’s which are only treated as my source files. Therefore I would like to ‘filter’ out Unity reading these formats.

Many people say “Just don’t work out of that directory”, which translates to “make your workflow inconvenient and inefficient while you also risk breaking the paths between assets”. There needs to be an OPTIONAL way to simply filter out file types and/or specific files from even being read by the Unity editor. This will also speed up the loading of a scene significantly!

Any help or advice here would be appreciated!

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I’m having the same issue. I have exported all my max files to fbx(since without it, just max files were making updates super slow) and now the only way to stop unity from reading max files is my removing them from the directory. If you found any solution, would be awesome to know :slight_smile:

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It look like finally , i have found way.
try to make unwanted files hidden.

Regards

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try to hide your files.
it work for me , i will try to make script to automaticlly hide unwanted files.