Hide Certain File Types

[danes78]

I'm trying to hide certain file types within my movie and tv folders, on my external hard drive. I have a WDTV and it automatically downloads movie and tv info into 2 files per item; 1 .xml and 1 .metathumb. It's fine when the drive is plugged into the WDTV but when it's plugged into the Mac, it's difficult to find certain items when I have to sort through all these "useless" files. I can't sort by file type, because I'm already sorting by date modified/name, etc.

Anyone have any ideas for how to hide these? I'd prefer to keep them as they're useful for sorting on the WDTV but I guess I could always delete them. Thanks in advance!

 

[BrianBaughn]

Open the external drive in Finder and select File>New Smart Folder. Where it says "Search" select the drive name. On the right click the "+" symbol to add search criteria to match whatever results you want ("Kind" is "Movie"?). Click Save when you're done and put the Smart Folder where you want.