title: Is there any way to tell IntelliJ IDEA not to look at files during a search/replace or during refactorings?
body: <p>Basically my question is the topic ^</p>
  
  <p>I have 4 files that are massive. I need to put them in resources under my maven project structure. Whenever I do a string-based refactoring or search/replace... I basically want the IDE to ignore these files altogether.</p>
  
  <p>Yes, I know I can exclude them and do the replacements manually... but like I said, I want to remove any possibility that they can be modified through the IDE (without having to write-protect them I guess, or revert them all the time if the version control says they've been modified).</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way I can exclude these files?</p>