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Re: Support for searching full path? [message #1344 is a reply to message #1343] Tue, 08 February 2022 09:17 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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That is true; the full path is not indexed, and thus searching for [bazz] won't find files inside subfolders of bazz.
However, you can use advanced filters for this. For example:
[contents, any metadata or filename] [includes all of the words] [foo bar]
[then apply advanced filter] [full path] [contains the string] [ignore case] [bazz]
Note that you can also use more precise criteria to specifically search some words either in the contents, or in the metadata, for example:
[contents only] [includes all of the words] [foo]
[other metadata] [includes all of the words] [bar]
[then apply advanced filter] [full path] [contains the string] [ignore case] [bazz]
And for very very precise searches, you can even use regular expressions; for example, to search for files containing foo inside a subfolder of bazz (but not directly inside bazz, nor inside a sub-subfolder):
[contents only] [includes all of the words] [foo]
[then apply advanced filter] [full path] [contains the regular expression] [case insensitive] [/bazz/[^/]*/[^/]*$]


Jérôme - FoxTrot Engineering

[Updated on: Tue, 08 February 2022 10:31]

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