Searching in multiple folders without writing whole paths in Search Edit box

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Thy Grand Voidinesss
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Searching in multiple folders without writing whole paths in Search Edit box

Post by Thy Grand Voidinesss »

Currently a user searching for e.g. files in format abc can put in the Search Edit box a filtering expression like

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T:\Backups\2017;T:\Backups\2018;T:\Backups\2019 .abc
but is unable to use

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\Backups\2017;\Backups\2018;\Backups\2019 .abc
or

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\2017;\2018;\2019 .abc
while being able to use just such shortened paths

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\2017 .abc

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\2018 .abc

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\2019 .abc
but only individually [on a one-by-one folder basis]- thus making it hard to compare content of multple folders [without writing whole paths leading to them]


Could Everything be improved in this regard, so that whole paths would not be required?
therube
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Re: Searching in multiple folders without writing whole paths in Search Edit box

Post by therube »

backups/20

backups/201

/backups/20

/backups/201

Use whatever might happen to work for a particular situation.
Thy Grand Voidinesss
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Re: Searching in multiple folders without writing whole paths in Search Edit box

Post by Thy Grand Voidinesss »

Thank you for these workarounds, as they will surely work with an orderly collections of backups - but that was just a simplistic example


I myself not rarely need to narrow down my searches to some on the spot chosen multiple locations from various volumes which often bear similar names. And so something as inclusive as

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/201
that cannot be mixed with other fragments of paths usually will not do the trick
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