Notepad++ exclude folder on the Find in Files filter

Originally posted on: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4198829/notepad-find-in-files-filter-exclude

I'm looking for a way to get n++'s find in files dialog to exclude certain files...

the only reference I've found so far is this http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=536795&group_id=189927 , but, unfortunately, it doesn't work.

I'm using *[^*.dll] to, I think, search for everything BUT dll files.

How can I resolve this ?

Is there how to exclude folders from the find in files dialog? I need to exclude the .git folders from the search, as the are very big and there are several of them.