Win 7 explorer search box
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Having trouble getting a simple file search to work. I'm in a folder, that contains a file called "RetroEventHandler.bat". In the search box at the top, I've tried typing "Retro", "RetroEventHandler", "RetroEventHandler.*" and even the full name "RetroEventHandler.bat". It doesn't seem to find anything. Any ideas? I tried searching a parent folder before and was beginning to think I had lost the file when the folder containing it happened to catch my eye.
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Having trouble getting a simple file search to work. I'm in a folder, that contains a file called "RetroEventHandler.bat". In the search box at the top, I've tried typing "Retro", "RetroEventHandler", "RetroEventHandler.*" and even the full name "RetroEventHandler.bat". It doesn't seem to find anything. Any ideas? I tried searching a parent folder before and was beginning to think I had lost the file when the folder containing it happened to catch my eye.
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Thanks, it probably would. Though it would be nice if the built-in search worked. Hmm guess I could revert to doing my file searches from the command line, using "dir /s filename".... :sigh:
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Thanks, it probably would. Though it would be nice if the built-in search worked. Hmm guess I could revert to doing my file searches from the command line, using "dir /s filename".... :sigh:
I created a small search application myself that does a simple search of file data so I could avoid that nonsensical Windows search tool. Ran into trouble a while back because it would only search files with certain extensions. I got around that, but I have never trusted it since. My tool also indicates how much data has been searched so far, which the Windows search tool was lacking as well (i.e., no way to see how fast it is progressing). Probably some free search tools already out there that allow you to do simple searches. Heck, I bet there are a couple on Code Project.
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I created a small search application myself that does a simple search of file data so I could avoid that nonsensical Windows search tool. Ran into trouble a while back because it would only search files with certain extensions. I got around that, but I have never trusted it since. My tool also indicates how much data has been searched so far, which the Windows search tool was lacking as well (i.e., no way to see how fast it is progressing). Probably some free search tools already out there that allow you to do simple searches. Heck, I bet there are a couple on Code Project.
There's always room for one more... :)
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There's always room for one more... :)
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
Getting an article published on CodeProject now is hard and not sufficiently rewarded.
Meh. I kinda like the looks of "A C# Grep Application". Not bad for an app written in 2001.
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Having trouble getting a simple file search to work. I'm in a folder, that contains a file called "RetroEventHandler.bat". In the search box at the top, I've tried typing "Retro", "RetroEventHandler", "RetroEventHandler.*" and even the full name "RetroEventHandler.bat". It doesn't seem to find anything. Any ideas? I tried searching a parent folder before and was beginning to think I had lost the file when the folder containing it happened to catch my eye.
For file search, nothing beats Everything[^]. They directly access NTFS - so it comes with a barrage of limitations: you need to run as admin, can only index local NTFS drives, only files and folders (not content), and when you make the resutls accessible to others, file permissions are not considered. The killer point is raw speed. 20 seconds to index two well-used disks, and updatign the index is virtually instantaneous through reading the change journal. Or so they say. Might be acheap excuse for magic, too.
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Having trouble getting a simple file search to work. I'm in a folder, that contains a file called "RetroEventHandler.bat". In the search box at the top, I've tried typing "Retro", "RetroEventHandler", "RetroEventHandler.*" and even the full name "RetroEventHandler.bat". It doesn't seem to find anything. Any ideas? I tried searching a parent folder before and was beginning to think I had lost the file when the folder containing it happened to catch my eye.