Searching for part of a file name

Can anyone explain how (as was so easy in XP) I can search with Vist for part
of a file name, (ie. +, ++, or other characters) I add to files?
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Thank you,

Garry

If you are just searching for a special characters like "+", by default you
won't necessarily get the results you expect as Vista uses a word-based
index, rather than a character-based search.

If you specifically search for filenames with the filename: keyword and use
a wildcard this does switch on character mode. So searching for:
filename:*++
does give me what I expect. I agree this is not very intuitive.

Dave Wood

"Garry" <garry@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Can anyone explain how (as was so easy in XP) I can search with Vist for
> part
> of a file name, (ie. +, ++, or other characters) I add to files?
> --
> Thank you,
>
> Garry

In the Search box, if you type:

name:~"*+*"

it will return all files with the '+' character in their name.


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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

"Garry" <garry@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Can anyone explain how (as was so easy in XP) I can search with Vist for
> part
> of a file name, (ie. +, ++, or other characters) I add to files?
> --
> Thank you,
>
> Garry

"Keith Miller MVP" <k.miller79@no.spam.verizon.net> wrote in message
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> In the Search box, if you type:
>
> name:~"*+*"
>
> it will return all files with the '+' character in their name.

What does the tilde character do?

It tells Search to allow wildcards ( * or ?) within the otherwise exact text
contained within the quotation marks.


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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

"just bob" <kilbyfan-aol@net.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Keith Miller MVP" <k.miller79@no.spam.verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:%23YbI51naHHA.4220@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> In the Search box, if you type:
>>
>> name:~"*+*"
>>
>> it will return all files with the '+' character in their name.
>
> What does the tilde character do?

"Keith Miller MVP" <k.miller79@no.spam.verizon.net> wrote in message
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> In the Search box, if you type:
>
> name:~"*+*"
>
> it will return all files with the '+' character in their name.
>
>
> --
> Good Luck,
>
> Keith
> Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
>
> "Garry" <garry@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1CA477E9-EB3E-4405-9CA0-4F715509771A@microsoft.com...
>> Can anyone explain how (as was so easy in XP) I can search with Vist for
>> part
>> of a file name, (ie. +, ++, or other characters) I add to files?
>> --
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Garry
>


This does not work for me. For example, I'm searching a folder for pictures
with the underscore character in the name, i.e., "file_name". Using your
suggestion, I type "name:~"*_*" in the search box and I get every file in
the folder listed, even those with no underscore character. What's up?

Thanks,
Dave

[GrayBeard]

I was reduced to shouting at the computer in frustration because I wanted to find all the filese with

(2)

in the filename but I did not want to find files with only

2

in the file name.

So I tried typing

Name: *(2)*.*

but this gave all files containing any of those characters.

Thankyou for that info in previous post telling me instead to enter in the box at top right of screen:

Name: ~*(2)*.*

Brilliant, now I get only the files I want.

That would have been much easire in Windows XP. In fact windows XP search was brilliant and very easy to use. I have not found anything in windows Vista search that is the slightest bit helpful.

"GrayBeard" <GrayBeard.31ot8o@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> schrieb im
Newsbeitrag news:GrayBeard.31ot8o@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com...
>
> I was reduced to shouting at the computer in frustration because I
> wanted to find all the filese with
>
> (2)

If you are nostalgic for using just
(2)
to find all files containig
(2)
in the name, try XYplorer file manager. Even the FREE version can do this,
and fast.

Don
http://www.xyplorer.com/