Ignore a folder in search results

Question

I\'m searching for a string and getting matches in a source folder, and a build folder (file in source gets copied to build during build).

I do not need the build fo

Answer 1

Excluding files and folders from projects

Article last modified: 08 June 2020

• Mark a file as plain text
  1. In the Project tool window, select the desired file.
  2. From the context menu of the selection, choose Mark as plain text:

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• Exclude files and folders by name patterns

  1. In the Settings/Preferences dialog Ctrl+Alt+S, click Directories .
  2. In the Exclude files field, type the masks that define the names of files and folders to be excluded, for example, *.min.js or lib. Use semicolons as separators.
     • If the name of a file matches any of these patterns, the file is treated as excluded.
     • If the name of a folder matches a pattern, all the files in this folder and in its subfolders are excluded.

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Source: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/excluding-files-from-project.html