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How To Seach file names contain any digit/number In windws explorer,? Or file name contain digits/numbers fall between given numbered range?
I search on the web & also try below mentioned linked pages, but not get the solution.
In windows explorer, how to search files which's Name contain any digits or numbers? Or file name contain ...
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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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Why search in file explorer finds nothing?
I open a window of file explorer in Windows 10
In the window I can clearly see a file with a name. Let's say [THEfile].txt
However, when I write in the search place to the upper right "THE", ...
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How do I search a folder in file explorer regardless of the spelling (ignore spaces)
I have a folder named for example DDC77 but I want the file explorer to return me that exact folder even if I search D DCC77 or DD C77
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Windows File Explorer - find files ending with a negative number (*-N.*)
What search pattern can I use in Windows File Explorer search field to find all files ending in a negative number? I'm looking for a search pattern that only finds 1 or 2 digit negative numbers at the ...
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Search for a file using the Windows Run Dialog Box
I am attempting to automate a Windows Search for a file name. My method work on several folders; however, it fails on a folder named "part #". My process was to
Search for a file within the ...
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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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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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Windows 10 Explorer Search field: Search for files beginning with "1-"
I am looking for the pattern to use the windows explorer search bar to find all files (Not folders)
in the current directory and all sub directories that start with the pattern 1-
for example the file ...
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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:
What Windows does ...
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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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Win 10 search box in explorer: how to restrict search to only filenames
When I search for a keyword "foo" by typing it in the Windows 10 File Explorer search box (top right corner) in a folder it seems to search (correct me if I am wrong please!) within ...
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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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Windows 10 File Explorer Quick Search bar will not allow typing - Usual fixes not working
I have a user account that will not allow any input in the Explorer Quick search bar. Clicking on the bar and typing produces no results. Occasionally pressing Control-F then typing will show only the ...
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Windows: Search whole computer for a file even if the type is not standard
To test capabilites of the file search option in Windows Explorer I created a sample file named sample_code.h and sample_code.cpp on my disc with some text in them so they are not empty.
Now I try to ...
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Windows Explorer exact string search does not work with hyphens
It looks like Explorer search treats quotation marks like Google search's exact match where a search for "foo bar" ignores results like "bar the foo" so you only get results like "the foo bar."
But ...
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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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Searching items in a folder by content does not search in .json files?
Using the "Content:" search filter under windows 10, i am able to find files that contain a string, this worked for me with excel tables, word docs and simple txt files.
However, now i am trying to ...
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Cancel Windows Explorer folder search after pressing 'up' arrow
In Windows Explorer (Windows 10), I can type into the search box at the top right to filter the files that are shown.
Normally I can clear a search by pressing the little 'x' at the right of the ...
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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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How to search Windows Explorer for file names containing invalid characters?
I have downloaded over 10,000 files and need to move them to a different folder than my downloads folder. Unfortunately, these files have miscellaneous names, and some of them contain invalid ...
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Searching using Windows Exporer
I try to search for a string in a file, typing Distribution Statement A in the Windows Explorer search box.
But the search finds files with Distribution in them. It finds files with Statement in them....
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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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How to easily find files with no extension using Windows
I have some files on my Hard Disk Drive that have no extensions whatsoever. It is very hard to find them manually, I really don't like the fact that I would need to replace my mouse sooner because of ...
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FileExplorer syntax for file search when filename contains hyphens
Using the Win 10 FileExplorer, I want to find "myfile-2015-info.pdf" while knowing for sure only "myfile-2015". If I enter file:myfile it is in the (long) list, so I keep typing and file:myfile-2015 ...
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Export content from Windows explorer search
When I do a search in Windows Explorer (Windows10) in a directory with many PDF documents I get the results giving me in the first column the file name and in the second column the path and a a ...
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How do I do a search in File Explorer that includes subfolders of zip archives?
In File Explorer, I can enter search terms in the upper-right search box to search the current folder and all subfolders. I can also navigate the folder tree of zip archives like any other folders. ...
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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 find all files under a directory
I'm hoping for the Windows Explorer equivalent to Linux's find . type -f.
I did *.* in the search field but it listed directories as well; I wanted just files.
Everything I've found on the ...
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Windows 10 default search location in folder
When you use search in Windows 10 File Explorer in a folder, it includes all subfolders by default. You can disable it for every search to ignore subfolders, but how can I make it default?
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Windows 10 Folder Search Sucks
when i do a search in a windows 10 folder using file explorer and the box at the top right, I get a list of matching files and folders.
All well and good, but if I open up one of those folders and ...
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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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How to search Windows 10 for ANY occurrence of a word?
I never heavily used the search feature on Windows 7, so I don't know if the issue persists on versions outside of 10.
I'm trying to search through a lot of files using Windows' file browser search ...
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Moved file to Music library in Windows 7, where did it go?
I was in the folder for my user name, the one with subfolders of My Documents, My Pictures, My Videos, etc. I was using a search to locate certain family videos to make a DVD. I clicked on a file ...
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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 Explorer file search returns blank items
When searching for files on a network drive through Windows Explorer sometimes the results come back with empty blank spaces (as shown by the yellow arrows in the screenshot below) strewn throughout ...
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Windows 10 File Explorer | bad characters in file names in search results
I using Win10 (upgraded from Win7 a few weeks ago) in English, and Hebrew as added supported language.
Basically everything is fine with Hebrew files names, folder names and so on, except for one ...
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How to find files older than x days on Windows using Advanced Query Syntax (AQS)?
You can find files older than this week using
datemodified:< this week
but
datemodified:< 7 days
does not seem to work.
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Windows Explorer Bug? Why is Windows Explorer Search Box not recognizing the character “R” for a set of file names?
So this is a case of curiosity more than anything.
I am in the process up loading images for a very large number of collegiate products from a certain vendor. Part of this process includes grabbing ...
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Windows 10 Search not working
I used WinKey + S very much on Windows 8.1. Now when I installed Windows 10 it seems to be a problem with the search indexer. It can't find anything but some 'settings' items.
Things i've tried:
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How to search multiple file types from Windows Explorer search box?
I would like to use the Windows Explorer Search box to search for multiple file types.
Is there any supported syntax to do so?
I tried:
*.docx *.xlsx
*.docx, *.xlsx
*.docx; *.xlsx
*.docx or *.xlsx
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Can Windows Explorer's search-as-you-type speed be modified?
What I'm referring to, is in Windows/File Explorer, if I were to type a letter, "B" for example, it would jump to the first available file/folder starting with a "B".
Then, if I was fast enough, I ...
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Windows explorer search on file extension length
I have a client who was recently victimized by CTBLocker. The ransomware has been removed, and most of the files have been recovered. However, the C: drive is now very full of files created by the ...
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Windows search with specific options
For example, i have two files:
Textfile1.txt
Textfile2.txt
where first file is empty, and second contains string file1
Can I create a search query in standard windows explorer to match Textfile2....
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Increase size of file path pane in windows search?
In normal file explorer, you can resize columns by dragging them around using the little tab marker type things:
In windows search, you can't do this for some reason! There are no tab markers to drag....
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How to make Microsoft Windows 7 Search display the actual Folder Location instead of some cryptic path?
I am very dissatisfied with the search offered by Windows 7 Explorer. Let me first explain what happens, and what I expect:
I have a folder c:\test. When I use explorer-search and search for test, ...
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How Search File Content in Windows 8 File Explorer?
I'm stumped as to how the search function is Windows 8 File Explorer is supposed to work.
I'm trying to search the content of some text files under a sub-folder of My Documents. In File Explorer (...
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Search for unique file in two or more folders
Is there a way to search for single/unique files in two or more different folders in windows? is there an add-on/app for this? (Don't understand how to run code)
Thanks
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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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