Use link reference tracing to remove unreferenced files about quartz

[jackyzha0]

Currently, there's no reference tracing in Quartz to support this so this is 'working as intended' and not a bug but I agree that it would be a good enhancement to have

[bluerosegarden]

As a small update, I've tried to make a workaround/solution following the instructions on this stack exchange to create a glob pattern to filter out every non markdown file out of the vault except the attachments folder. This led me to the pattern{!(*.md),!(attachments)/**/!(*.md)}, however this will filter out ALL files in the root folder, including .md files regardless of their published status. I checked this on digital ocean's glob tool and it looks like it should've worked. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something? I hope this helps.

edit:
Using just !(attachments)/**/!(*.md) Almost works, but doesn't filter out any non-markdown content on the root level. This is enough of a workaround for the moment but the main issue still stands

[bluerosegarden]

Oh alright!! In that case I still believe the documentation should mention it on the private pages page. Should I make a PR?

[jackyzha0]

Yes! Feel free to make a docs fix for it :) Oversight on my part haha thank you

[jackyzha0]

(btw, Quartz uses fast-glob for globbing and it's slightly different from the unix glob: https://github.com/mrmlnc/fast-glob?tab=readme-ov-file#pattern-syntax)

[bluerosegarden]

(btw, Quartz uses fast-glob for globbing and it's slightly different from the unix glob: https://github.com/mrmlnc/fast-glob?tab=readme-ov-file#pattern-syntax)

OK THAT EXPLAINS SO MUCH... I'll also update the part of the docs mentioning "any valid glob works" to say "any valid fast-glob works", since despite it linking there I just went straight to the pattern tester hahaha

thank you 🙏

edit: FINALLY GOT SOMETHING WORKING. The following two glob patterns will filter out any non-markdown items except for those in attachments. The reason it has to be split up into two patterns is because I couldn't figure out how to match both root-level files and sub-directories while including an exception for the attachments folder.

"!(attachments)**/!(*.md)", "!(*.md)"

and if you have more than one attachments folder, use this instead

"**/!(attachments)**/!(*.md)", "!(*.md)"

Alright now it's time to update the docs 👍