hiding special folders

[Tolis]

Hi

How is possible to hide some special folders like RecycleBin and System Information that are on the root of each disk. I do want to see all other system hidden files/folders

[Mathias (Author)]

Well you can filter it out in the view filter.  (filter box at the bottom in the explorer panel.  prefix with - to exclude and / to only trigger folder. "-/System -/$Re"

There is not built in function to hide special files..  this is because the idea have been that MC should never lie to you and always show the filesystem like it is.  (Unlike Win Explorer that show fake files (virtual) and hide some files and so on)

[Tolis]

I have many RAM (small size drives) which I need to move their data around (ctrl+a, F5) but the problem is that i have to unselect those system folders

is it possible to automate through scripting or another way the filtering ?

[Tolis]

for example could I somehow toggle the "Show System and Hidden Files folders" toolbar action once enter/leave a predefined list of dirs?