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Questions tagged [file-search]

Questions related to searching a filesystem, either live searches or indexed file searches.

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Can I force full speed to the indexing service of Windows?

On windows 7 there's 'pause' and there's 'indexing speed is reduced due to user activity' but what if one wants full speed during desktop activity?
j riv
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Is there a directory history for bash?

Is there something like bash's reverse-search-history (Ctrl-R), but for only directories? I have some deep folder hierarchies that I want to jump to, so I'd like to use something like reverse-search-history, but it only looks for folder names and…
idbrii
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Exclude folders from recent files

Windows 10 shows a list of recent files in the explorer. Is there a possibility to exclude certain folders (recursively) from being shown in this list?
principal-ideal-domain
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How to stop Windows Search from auto-excluding repository folders?

Windows search indexer is adding most paths to repository folders (both .git and .svn) to the exclusion list. I can remove them manually of course, but each time I rebuild the index - they are re-added. I can add them as indexed locations, but I'd…
klepp0906
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Find file recursively under Windows (dir /s not suitable)

I need find a file in Windows under command line, but receive results as a table. Similar to windowed version of find, where we have last column, displaying location. dir /s doesn't match this requirement, because it enters each directory and…
Dims
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Why don't file managers use the Master File Table for instant search results?

I've just discovered UltraSearch and was blown away by its file and folder search speed. It's instantaneous. And doesn't use any indexing service. It simply uses the NTFS Master File Table, which already stores all the filenames on the NTFS…
Dan Dascalescu
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Free visual similarity image for a local hard drive search?

I'm looking for a desktop search engine for finding images on my local hard drive with high visual similarity. I've only found paid for ones so far. It could be Linux or windows one, either would be helpful. A Google desktop plug-in would be nice!
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How do I disable indexing in a specific directory across multiple platforms?

I have some files that will be accessed across several platforms (Mac OS X and Windows 7 mainly, but I wouldn't rule out Linux in the future) and I do not want these files indexed by the search services of the platforms (there will be some DB dumps…
CyberSkull
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Notepad++ excluding find filters

In Notepad++ I want to search in all file types except one. For instance: I want to search in all files but not .class files. Can the Notepad++ filter can be configured to work this way?
user29169
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Windows 7 File Explorer search not working

I can't use the Windows 7 File Explorer search successfully. If I enter a search string, for instance car in the search box, I just get No files found, despite obviously having several files that match the string (blue_cars.jpg, carrot.gif) in the…
Gruber
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How to find all video type files in windows 8.1

How can I find all my video files in windows 8.1? I go into the windows 8.1 start screen and start typing "*.avi". It finds a small number of videos on my C drive. Search appears to only look on the system drive. It does not bother to search D…
P.Brian.Mackey
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Find files with non-ASCII characters in filenames in Windows XP

Is there any easy way to find all files in a particular directory that have any non-ASCII (ie. Unicode) characters in the filename? I'm running Windows XP x64 SP2, NTFS filesystem.
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How to list (search) files with a certain name

i'm trying to get a list of all the files with a certain name in a project i opened with VS Code. For example, all the .gitignore files in my project. I know i can ctrl+p and type ".gitignore", but i don't want to open all the files, i want to list…
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Windows 8 Stuck on Start Screen File Search

I have been searching someone else having the same issue but I couldn't find any. Here is my problem: I'm using Windows 8 Pro with Media Center. File search screen does not close itself after I make a file search within start screen. It stuck on…
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Ack/Ag/Pt just list files?

For a Unix/Unix-like OS... So, I know I can just use find . to list all of the files recursively from the current folder. This includes files I am not interested in. Using Ack, Ag (silver searcher), or Pt (platinum searcher), is there a way to do…
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