how to do these searches?

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BigDan
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how to do these searches?

Post by BigDan »

Sometimes I want to limit my searches to a folder. Let's say Desktop. In that case I've found adding " \Desktop" to a search can fix that.

Let's say I want to find all the pdf's on my desktop, *but I dont want to include subfolders*. Is there a way to do this? My current search is giving me over 3K hits. I should be able to bring it down to like 20 if I eliminate subfolders.

Please help!
therube
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Re: how to do these searches?

Post by therube »

I think it's something like this:

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/bigdan/desktop/   !desktop/*
vanisk
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Re: how to do these searches?

Post by vanisk »

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*.pdf infolder:"c:\users\bigdan\Desktop\"
void
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Re: how to do these searches?

Post by void »

Please try searching for:
\desktop\ !*\desktop\*\*

The next major version of Everything will allow:
**\desktop\*
BigDan
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Re: how to do these searches?

Post by BigDan »

worked! thank you so much! now i just need to memorize that haha
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