## Sample file exclusion list for Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is an utterly superb tool. Undoubtedly one of the best IDE's out there; I personally use VSCode for general scripting, as a massive text/Markdown/JSON/YAML workspace organizer for both personal and work projects, and as a journaling and note-taking tool that can replace everything from Notepad++ to Excel.

Any user of VSCode will be familiar with the **files.exclude** object when using the built-in settings editor for both user and workspace-level configuration. Given that my workflow involves a number of different technologies, I've had to create a list to cater for file types that I sometimes import, export, or work with within a directory monitored by VSCode.

The JSON list below adds to the default exclusion list, and adds the following:

* Zipped and image-based archives
* Common Adobe source files
* Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, and LibreOffice files
* Common images, video, and audio formats
* Executables, packaged binaries and common system files
* Common portable book formats
* Public and private key formats (except ASCII)

```
{
    "files.exclude": {
"**/*.zip": true,
        "**/*.7z": true,
        "**/*.rar": true,
        "**/*.tar": true,
        "**/*.gz": true,
        "**/*.tgz": true,
        "**/*.bz2": true,
"**/*.psd": true,
        "**/*.psb": true,
        "**/*.ai": true,
        "**/*.eps": true,
        "**/*.indd": true,
        "**/*.ps": true,
        "**/*.xmp": true,
        "**/*.lrcat": true,
        "**/*.swf": true,
        "**/*.pdf": true,
"**/*.doc": true,
        "**/*.docx": true,
        "**/*.dot": true,
        "**/*.dotx": true,
        "**/*.xls": true,
        "**/*.xlsx": true,
        "**/*.xlt": true,
        "**/*.xltx": true,
        "**/*.ppt": true,
        "**/*.pptx": true,
        "**/*.pot": true,
        "**/*.potx": true,
"**/*.odt": true,
        "**/*.ott": true,
        "**/*.odm": true,
        "**/*.odf": true,
        "**/*.ods": true,
        "**/*.ots": true,
        "**/*.odg": true,
        "**/*.otg": true,
        "**/*.odp": true,
        "**/*.odb": true,
        "**/*.otp": true,
        "**/*.key": true,
"**/*.sxw": true,
        "**/*.stw": true,
        "**/*.sxc": true,
        "**/*.stc": true,
        "**/*.sxi": true,
        "**/*.sti": true,
        "**/*.tex": true,
"**/*.png": true,
        "**/*.jpg": true,
        "**/*.jpeg": true,
        "**/*.gif": true,
        "**/*.ico": true,
        "**/*.bmp": true,
        "**/*.tif": true,
        "**/*.tiff": true,
        "**/*.svg": true,
"**/*.mp4": true,
        "**/*.mpg": true,
        "**/*.mpeg": true,
        "**/*.mkv": true,
        "**/*.flv": true,
        "**/*.avi": true,
        "**/*.mov": true,
        "**/*.au": true,
        "**/*.aiff": true,
        "**/*.flac": true,
        "**/*.wav": true,
        "**/*.ogg": true,
        "**/*.mp3": true,
        "**/*.aif": true,
        "**/*.mid": true,
        "**/*.wma": true,
        "**/*.mpa": true,
        "**/*.vob": true,
"**/*.exe": true,
        "**/*.msi": true,
        "**/*.cab": true,
        "**/*.dll": true,
        "**/*.sys": true,
        "**/*.dat": true,
        "**/*.cmd": true,
        "**/*.com": true,
        "**/*.tmp": true,
        "**/*.bak": true,
        "**/*.dmp": true,
        "**/*.db": true,
        "**/*.mdb": true,
        "**/*.jar": true,
        "**/*.lnk": true,
        "**/*.rdp": true,
        "**/*.tlp": true,
        "**/*.ttf": true,
        "**/*.otf": true,
"**/*.crdownload": true,
        "**/*.opdownload": true,
        "**/*.download": true,
        "**/*.part": true,
        "**/*.partial": true,
"**/*.deb": true,
        "**/*.rpm": true,
        "**/*.pkg": true,
        "**/*.run": true,
        "**/*.lock": true,
        "**/*.rc": true,
        "**/*.xcf": true,
        "**/*.xpm": true,
        "**/*.a": true,
        "**/.gnupg": true,
        "**/.bashrc": true,
        "**/.gtkrc": true,
        "**/.bash_history": true,
        "**/.bash_profile": true,
        "**/.profile": true,
        "**/.config": true,
        "**/.ecryptfs": true,
        "**/.local": true,
        "**/.cache": true,
        "**/.Private": true,
"**/*.iso": true,
        "**/*.bin": true,
        "**/*.img": true,
        "**/*.wim": true,
        "**/*.dmg": true,
"**/*.epub": true,
        "**/*.mobi": true,
        "**/*.azw": true,
        "**/*.fb2": true,
        "**/*.rtf": true,
"**/*.gpg": true,
        "**/*.pgp": true,
        "**/*.pem": true,
        "**/*.crt": true,
        "**/*.cer": true,
        "**/*.kbd": true,
        "**/*.kdbx": true,
"**/.git": true,
        "**/.gitconfig": true,
        "**/.svn": true,
        "**/.hg": true,
        "**/CVS": true,
        "**/.DS_Store": true
}
}
```
I switch often between Windows and Linux, and the files above cater to both operating systems. Since I don't use MacOS, I didn't add in any specific OSX file types.

Feel free to use it as a base and edit however you need.