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    Can someone explain to me why typing in "filename: CollectionsCaseStatus" in the win 7 explorer search box finds a file called CollectionsCaseStatusChange.csv yet "filename: CaseStatus" does not? It seems to be using a "starts with" type search rather than filename contains type search and its just took me probably 10 minutes trying to find a file. "filename: *CaseStatus" doesn't work either. Does anyone know what the correct wildcard character is or any other way to make it do a "filename contains" search? All the stuff I've found from searching on google is to do with searching contents of files or properties such as word document author names, etc.

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      Can someone explain to me why typing in "filename: CollectionsCaseStatus" in the win 7 explorer search box finds a file called CollectionsCaseStatusChange.csv yet "filename: CaseStatus" does not? It seems to be using a "starts with" type search rather than filename contains type search and its just took me probably 10 minutes trying to find a file. "filename: *CaseStatus" doesn't work either. Does anyone know what the correct wildcard character is or any other way to make it do a "filename contains" search? All the stuff I've found from searching on google is to do with searching contents of files or properties such as word document author names, etc.

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      DaveAuld
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      what about taking the filename: out of the equation, what happens then?

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        Can someone explain to me why typing in "filename: CollectionsCaseStatus" in the win 7 explorer search box finds a file called CollectionsCaseStatusChange.csv yet "filename: CaseStatus" does not? It seems to be using a "starts with" type search rather than filename contains type search and its just took me probably 10 minutes trying to find a file. "filename: *CaseStatus" doesn't work either. Does anyone know what the correct wildcard character is or any other way to make it do a "filename contains" search? All the stuff I've found from searching on google is to do with searching contents of files or properties such as word document author names, etc.

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        Dan Neely
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        I've seen an answer to this on an MS blog somewhere, support for wildcards on both ends would either require much larger indexes or much more CPU crunching to search through them, I don't recall which-.

        3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18

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          Can someone explain to me why typing in "filename: CollectionsCaseStatus" in the win 7 explorer search box finds a file called CollectionsCaseStatusChange.csv yet "filename: CaseStatus" does not? It seems to be using a "starts with" type search rather than filename contains type search and its just took me probably 10 minutes trying to find a file. "filename: *CaseStatus" doesn't work either. Does anyone know what the correct wildcard character is or any other way to make it do a "filename contains" search? All the stuff I've found from searching on google is to do with searching contents of files or properties such as word document author names, etc.

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          Dave Parker
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          Never mind, figured it out. The wildcard character is a double-asterisk rather than the usual single one. "filename: **CaseStatus" works

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            what about taking the filename: out of the equation, what happens then?

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            I *think* the default is to search the contents of each file.

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              Never mind, figured it out. The wildcard character is a double-asterisk rather than the usual single one. "filename: **CaseStatus" works

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              Who said MS wasn't standards-compliant? Oh, wait...

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                Who said MS wasn't standards-compliant? Oh, wait...

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                which standards document indicates that * is wildcard? I'll give you credit that I can't say I've ever seen ** used as wildcard but * is certainly no standard that I know.

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