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Specific file not showing in sidebar directory structure

#1

I have a file named desktop.ini in a directory called desktop. The file is in the directory when I look at the directory in windows explorer however in sublime it does not show in the directory structure for this directory. All other files show up. I have other directories that have .ini files that show up ok as well.

If I rename the file to something like desktop_old.ini, that file then shows up in sublime but if I change the name back to desktop.ini it then disappears from the sublime directory. The file permissions are the same as all the other files in the directory.

I tried deleting the file then recreating it which it created ok but did not show up in sublime. Again, if I rename it, it shows up. Its not the file extention because I have many other .ini files that do show up and renaming this and keeping it as .ini also shows but going back to the original name of desktop.ini and it hides it in sublime.

No matter what I do, I cannot get sublime to show me this one particular filename in this directory and cant figure out why. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This is using Sublime build 4113 on a windows 10 pc.

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#2

desktop.ini is in the default file_exclude_patterns preference, you may want to change that in your User preferences if you want it to show up in the sidebar

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#3

Thanks Keith, that did the trick. I must not have noticed this before as I have been using sublime for years. I should have searched for desktop.ini in the settings before posting. Anyway, thanks for getting back to me.

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