How to search only for folders in the search bar = Windows File Explorer Search Box of Windows 10

Question

I wonder what I am doing wrong or whether the search bar has changed. I need to make a search from the search bar of the Windows Explorer that puts out only folders. There is quite some rough research done up to now, which did not lead to a working outcome.

Super User SE:

• How to search for directories only in Windows Explorer? [duplicate]
• How to search for only folders in Windows 7 instead of folders AND files
• Need to search for folders only, on the first Level Only

Serverfault SE:

• search for just folders in windows explorer

Though it is likely that this is a (cross-site) duplicate, I still try this, since I did not find out what to do after some tries.

I tried:

kind:folder
kind:folders
* kind:folder
* kind:folders
kind:folder *
kind:folders *
folders
\d

But until now, the only way to get them is to search for *.* and get the folders at the beginning of the output of that.

How can I search only for directories that are in the directory that I am in, just with the search bar of the Windows File Explorer?

Answer 1

Either by using the search options "Kind" dropdown

or in the search bar directly:

kind:=folder

(if you use the dropdown, it just adds that text to the search bar for you)

Answer 2

There is a trick that is not in the search bar.

In the menu, choose View -> Details

Click on the Dropdown menu and checkmark "File folder"

Afterwards, you will see only folders in the directory that you are in. If you then search *.* in the search bar:

you will get only folders in the search output:

Countercheck:

Taken from How to search for files, but not folders?