Option to exclude directories in GUI

[jeromerobert]

Migrated from bitbucket. Original author: naught101. Original date: 2018-03-08.

It would be great if there was a way to exclude a selected directory from the treemap in the GUI - then large directories that get in the way could be removed so that it was easier to focus on smaller directories..

I know that this is currently possible in the config files, but it is not always possible to know beforehand which directories I might want to exclude. For example, if I'm hunting space-wasting files, and I look in /home/naught101, then the treemap might show 70% as just music and videos (which I don't want to delete right now). Being able to exclude them might help me locate other files that are still large, but small enough to be hidden by that mass of large files.

[jeromerobert]

Migrated from bitbucket. Original author: clepsydrae. Original date: 2018-04-02.

Seconded! I'd love to "delete (not really)" either from the list view or the treemap, just to get stuff out of the way and re-visualize the tree without it. This would be a really great feature when trying to decide how to use space efficiently!

Thanks for the great software!