Search in Windows Explorer

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Carol

When I do a search in Windows Explorer can I set this to only search
pacificly?
Not 'parts' of the query only 'all' of it.
If I search for a song in my list of 12,000 say, The Angels Sing,
it will bring up titles with each word instead of all the words
in the correct order. Meaning I will get 300 items instead of 1.

Any help appreciated.
Carol
 
Hmm. You're doing something different than I. When I do a Win Explorer
search and put word in the Containing Text field, it just finds the
files that contain the exact phrase. It does not find any files that
contain the same words in a different order.
 
Put the words in quotes "moon river" instead of moon river will make it find
only the phrase between the quotes.

Glen P
 
I already tried that & it didn't work.
It still brought up all of them.
Thanks for trying,

Carol


Put the words in quotes "moon river" instead of moon river will make it find
only the phrase between the quotes.

Glen P
 
Carol

On my machine there is an alternative to All files and
Folders, namely Pictures, Videos and Music.

Otherwise try moonriver or moon*river.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
Thanks Gerry,

But that didn't work either.

Carol

Carol

On my machine there is an alternative to All files and
Folders, namely Pictures, Videos and Music.

Otherwise try moonriver or moon*river.

--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
Carol

What is the file name for Moon River and for another
with Moon in the title?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
Any ideas on where/how to find info on how to do an 'and' / 'or' / 'not',
Boolean type search with Windows Explorer?
 
Thanks much for the reply.
Problem is I cant load any 3rd party software on the computer that I am using.
 
Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:22:27 -0800 from akm
Any ideas on where/how to find info on how to do an 'and' / 'or' / 'not',
Boolean type search with Windows Explorer?
Problem is I cant load any 3rd party software on the computer that I am using.
Click to expand...

I'm not sure what you mean by a Boolean search. If you mean to find
files that contain "this" and "that", "this" or "that", "this" but
not "that", and so on, my shareware GREP[1] can do this.

It's a command-line tool, so there's nothing to install. The trial
version searches two levels of directories, but the registered
version searches infinite levels.

[1] http://oakroadsystems.com/sharware/grep.htm#download
 
Any ideas on where/how to find info on how to do an 'and' / 'or' / 'not',
Boolean type search with Windows Explorer?
Click to expand...

Nope. I rarely use XP search these days. Sorry.
 
Thank you much for the info.
Guess Im just not that sure what Windows (XPpro) Explorer can and cant do,
and not sure where to look for, but it appears that it is limited to all the
words put in the search... ie if search for text in a file such as 'test and
test' (no parans) it will only find files with that phrase with those 3 words
in that order, and not find text such as 'test test and' in a file.
Your 'grep' sounds like something out of 'unix', does it work with XPpro?
akm
Thanks again for your help.



Stan Brown said:
Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:22:27 -0800 from akm
Any ideas on where/how to find info on how to do an 'and' / 'or' / 'not',
Boolean type search with Windows Explorer?
Problem is I cant load any 3rd party software on the computer that I am using.
Click to expand...

I'm not sure what you mean by a Boolean search. If you mean to find
files that contain "this" and "that", "this" or "that", "this" but
not "that", and so on, my shareware GREP[1] can do this.

It's a command-line tool, so there's nothing to install. The trial
version searches two levels of directories, but the registered
version searches infinite levels.

[1] http://oakroadsystems.com/sharware/grep.htm#download
Click to expand...
 
Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:16:30 -0800 from akm
Stan Brown said:
Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:22:27 -0800 from akm
Any ideas on where/how to find info on how to do an 'and' /
'or' / 'not', Boolean type search with Windows Explorer?
Problem is I cant load any 3rd party software on the computer
that I am using.
Click to expand...

I'm not sure what you mean by a Boolean search. If you mean to find
files that contain "this" and "that", "this" or "that", "this" but
not "that", and so on, my shareware GREP[1] can do this.

It's a command-line tool, so there's nothing to install. The trial
version searches two levels of directories, but the registered
version searches infinite levels.

[1] http://oakroadsystems.com/sharware/grep.htm#download
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Your 'grep' sounds like something out of 'unix', does it work with XPpro?
Click to expand...

Yes, everything from DOS 5.0 to Win XP Pro. Don't expect a GUI --
it's purely a command-line utility.
 
Thanks again for the info.
When I go to the GREP website and click on 'Download it' (in following
paragraph from the website), nothing happens.
"GREP is shareware. 'Download it' gratis and try it out for 30 days. Pay for
it if you decide to keep using it; otherwise just delete it from your
computer."
My IE 'Privacy' setting is 'always allow' for 'oakroadsystems.com' so Im not
sure what the problem is.
Thoughts?
akm



Stan Brown said:
Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:16:30 -0800 from akm
Stan Brown said:
Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:22:27 -0800 from akm
<[email protected]>:
Any ideas on where/how to find info on how to do an 'and' /
'or' / 'not', Boolean type search with Windows Explorer?
Problem is I cant load any 3rd party software on the computer
that I am using.

I'm not sure what you mean by a Boolean search. If you mean to find
files that contain "this" and "that", "this" or "that", "this" but
not "that", and so on, my shareware GREP[1] can do this.

It's a command-line tool, so there's nothing to install. The trial
version searches two levels of directories, but the registered
version searches infinite levels.

[1] http://oakroadsystems.com/sharware/grep.htm#download
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Your 'grep' sounds like something out of 'unix', does it work with XPpro?
Click to expand...

Yes, everything from DOS 5.0 to Win XP Pro. Don't expect a GUI --
it's purely a command-line utility.
Click to expand...
 
Thanks again for the info.
When I go to the GREP website and click on 'Download it' (in following
paragraph from the website), nothing happens.
"GREP is shareware. 'Download it' gratis and try it out for 30 days.
Click to expand...

Agent Ransack is free. They also offer a shareware program, FileLocator
Pro, with more features. I have installed on my desktop but still use Agent
Ransack on my portable. Unfortunately, only the shareware program supports
boolean, expressions, scripting, etc. Although more limited, the free
version still runs circles around XP search.
 
Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:01:31 -0800 from akm
When I go to the GREP website and click on 'Download it' (in following
paragraph from the website), nothing happens.
Click to expand...

Click on either the Simtel or Garbo link.
 
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