hiding certain file extensions

[tildesley]

hi

i was wondering how i would go about hiding files with an certain extension, for example. i have a number of *.avi files on a networked drive (HFS+), to get these to show correctly on my JB ATV2, you can create thumbnails, these have to sit in the same folder, so I want to hide *.tbh extensions, i've watched a few videos on how to hide folders but it doesn't really give any assistance on hiding files, also I would rather do it as a batch rather than 1 by 1, would automator or apple script help here?

seasons greetings

jt

 

[Partron22]

This Applescript should do it for you:

--  Toggle visibility of files having a chosen extension type in a folder
--  Run script once to hide, and again to show
--  Also includes lines for setting all files visible, or all invisible.
--  BP 2012
--••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
set targetFileExtension to ".scpt" -- Set this to the extension you want to hide. ⬅#
--••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
tell application "Finder"
	set targfolder to (choose folder) as text
end tell

-- Get the names of files in folder, hidden or not:
set targpath to quoted form of POSIX path of targfolder
set zed to do shell script "ls " & targpath -- bypassing the Finder

-- Massage shell script data into a proper list:
set oldtid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "\r"
set tlst to every text item of zed -- every file in folder (except UNIX invis)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldtid

-- Toggle each files hidden status
repeat with n from 1 to count of tlst
	if item n of tlst contains targetFileExtension then
		set targpath to POSIX path of (targfolder & item n of tlst)
		tell application "System Events" to set viz to visible of disk item targpath
		tell application "System Events" to set visible of disk item targpath to not viz
		
		-- Comment out the line above, and uncomment one of the lines below to set
		-- the visible status of everything in a folder to the same value
		
		--tell application "System Events" to set visible of disk item targpath to true
		--tell application "System Events" to set visible of disk item targpath to false
	end if
end repeat

return tlst