Thanks for the help form everyone about putting the right syntax in the find box.
I found that you almost have to know the full file name in order to exclusively search just for it.
As an examole,I used RE.
If I put RE* in the find box,I get back everything beginning with RE.
Lets assume I`m looking for a file called REPLACE.
If I want to be more specific I have to put in REP*and it will exclude all the other files beginning with RE and some other letter than P.
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Using any character string without the wildcard * will return that character
string if found anywhere within the file name.
By using the rep*, only the leftmost characters of the file name are
examined. IOW, if the character string is not the first characters in the
file name the string will not be found. I.E. file name =
sick_strept_throat.doc will not be found in the second search but would be
found in the first search. By using *.doc all files that are document files are returned in the result. By setting the 'home' directory / folder as far out on the directory tree as
possible the file search will be restricted to only the files from the
'home' directory and outward in the directory tree.
If several branches are included that you know would return many false
positives, those 'branches' can be pruned and moved to another directory for
the duration of your search then grafted back to their original position.
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Thanks for the help form everyone about putting the right syntax in the find
box.
I found that you almost have to know the full file name in order to
exclusively search just for it.
As an examole,I used RE.
If I put RE* in the find box,I get back everything beginning with RE.
Lets assume I`m looking for a file called REPLACE.
If I want to be more specific I have to put in REP*and it will exclude all
the other files beginning with RE and some other letter than P.
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No need to become a windoze wiz. You can search by content, or by
title or a part thereof and within the directory or drive that you
desire, all of them is also possible and it's PDQ.
Best of all it will give you a preview of the contents of the file you
wish to peek into.
Tomas
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In Computer_Help_and_Discussion%40yahoogroups.com">Computer_Help_and_Discussionyahoogroups.com, "Howard" <esrman...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the help form everyone about putting the right syntax in
the find box.
>;
> I found that you almost have to know the full file name in order to
exclusively search just for it.
>
> As an examole,I used RE.
>
> If I put RE* in the find box,I get back everything beginning with RE.
>
> Lets assume I`m looking for a file called REPLACE.
>
> If I want to be more specific I have to put in REP*and it will
exclude all the other files beginning with RE and some other letter
than P.
Howard wrote:
> Thanks for the help form everyone about putting the right syntax in the find box.
>;
> I found that you almost have to know the full file name in order to exclusively search just for it.
>
> As an examole,I used RE.
>
> If I put RE* in the find box,I get back everything beginning with RE.
>
> Lets assume I`m looking for a file called REPLACE.
>
>; If I want to be more specific I have to put in REP*and it will exclude all the other files beginning with RE and some other letter than P.
>
>
