Filter working, but corresponding macro not?
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2016 7:44 pm
I have a search that i repeatedly perform so i decided to create a filter and macro.
The search usually looks like this:
What this does in words is that it looks inside my Q drive, then finds any folders titled "images", inside of any folders that have the words dogs OR cats OR birds, etc in the path
So for example, my folders look like this:
OR
and when i perform the search:
I get a list of folders all named "images"
I created a filter for quicker execution:
And a macro:
When i activate the filter and type:
it works fine and returns a list of folders named "images"
But when I deactivate the filter, activate the "Everything" filter and use the macro like this:
the behavior isn't the same.
It returns a list of 4,000+ objects and I can't figure out if this is expected behavior or I'm doing something wrong.
I think it has something to do with the "|" operator, because the macro works until I add an "|" operator
Hopefully this makes sense. Thanks for any help
The search usually looks like this:
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Q: path:<dogs|cats|birds|lizards|spiders> images
So for example, my folders look like this:
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Q:\F1\F2\dogs\images
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Q:\F1\F2\cats\images
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Q: path:<dogs|cats|birds|lizards|spiders> images
I created a filter for quicker execution:
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q: path:<name:> images
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qimg<name>
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dogs|cats|lizards|horses
But when I deactivate the filter, activate the "Everything" filter and use the macro like this:
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qimg:dogs|cats
It returns a list of 4,000+ objects and I can't figure out if this is expected behavior or I'm doing something wrong.
I think it has something to do with the "|" operator, because the macro works until I add an "|" operator
Hopefully this makes sense. Thanks for any help