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Windows 10 Explorer search cant find files
While recently trying to located some lost files, I noticed that my Windows Explorer search was not functioning properly. As a test, I typed in a file I knew existed in a location:
C:\Users\USERNAME\...
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After searching in Explorer, how to get a full path in the address bar?
When I ctrl+f search in File Explorer and click a resulting folder, Instead of the address bar providing a useful path while I'm inside the folder, it instead does the following:
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Windows-7, Windows Explorer -- Find all files in folders not named debug
Is there an easy was in Windows-7, Windows-Explorer to find all files named .dll in folders not named debug?
I would hope the answer would be somewhat consistent across Windows systems, but that ...
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The fastest disk search possible [closed]
I currently have windows indexing service and no other disk search/indexing program installed.
I want the indexing software to load the entire index database into RAM
Is there any way to make windows ...
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Windows 7 - Searching within file names
Windows 7 Home Premium
64 Bit
I have download an icon set of over 1,000 icons, and all of the files start with "appbar", for example: "appbar.email." In order to find what I'm looking for I need ...
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Delete Protected WMA
I have several hundred protected WMA files that I don't want to keep, spread in a several level deep folder structure. Is there an easy way to detect these files and delete them?
There are also ...
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Windows Explorer Search does not find anything on Pictures, Documents, Downloads folders after manually moving them
Search in C:\Users\Komninos\Downloads not showing any results in Windows Explorer.
The quick search is not working for Downloads, Pictures, Documents folders, which are the folders I moved from D:\...
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How can I exclude one or more drives (hard drives) from my search when searching in My PC in an explorer window in Win10 Pro?
I want to search my local hard disks and my removable USB thumb drives while excluding my Google Drive (G:). I'm trying to search using an explorer window using the search box (F3). My location bar is ...
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Is there a way to hide a folder from searches but can still be searched manually?
I am working on a number of manuscripts in Word using Windows 10. I have taken to storing older versions of these manuscripts in a particular folder labelled "Older Versions of Manuscript" ...
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How can I search Windows 10, excluding folders yet including zips?
I use a search string to generate statistics of documents processed, I used to use the -kind:folder but then realized it was blocking .zip files. Here are my requirements:
YES include .zip files in ...
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Search box grayed out in Windows explorer
A long time ago, I ran some scripts from the web to increase the privacy of my Windows 10 installation. Among other things it disabled Cortana. Except for multiple error messages in the event viewer ...
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How to force Windows to search a folder again?
I did a search in Windows 10 File Explorer for files containing a specific string in the file name. Then I either renamed or deleted the files it found. When I searched the same string again to see ...
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How to find (unindexed) files in the current folder in Windows 10 File Explorer?
When in a folder in Windows 10, using the search panel to find files, one would expect an ad-hoc search of the file names in the current folder.
However, Windows only seems to find files that have ...
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Explorer Search does not work
Look at how I can't find a file that is clearly in the folder as I'm looking at it.
Folder: C:\Users\dasbest\Documents\Portable Apps\FL Studio 8\Plugins\VST-old
Filename: Prophet-V2.dll
Search ...
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Windows file explorer crashes while searching a certain term in the search bar
While searching for a file named "advance" in a network drive, the file explorer crashes and closes automatically. This happens only when the search reaches a particular folder in the directory which ...
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