How to search/find ALL files ?

J N Katzman-TCM

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Jun 20, 2002, 2:39:35 PM6/20/02

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Hi,

I'd like to be able to have the Search->Files... look in all directories
for all types of files without limitation. I remember seeing a post a
while back on how to fix this, but I can't find it.

Anyone with the answer ??

Thanks In Advance.

Joel Katzman
TCM Inc.

Ricardo M. Urbano - W2K/NT4 MVP

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Jun 20, 2002, 7:55:07 PM6/20/02

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Fix it? Is it broken? If your Explorer view is set to view hidden
files and system files, it should work just fine.

hth

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Microsoft Windows 2000/NT MVP

J N Katzman-TCM

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Jun 21, 2002, 12:44:31 PM6/21/02

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I'm also trying to include the winnt system directories etc, in the search.
Search will only find stuff in the winnt directory only if I start the search
there. I want to start from the root, and search all directories.

Bob Irelan

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Jun 21, 2002, 5:12:21 PM6/21/02

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Enable Advanced and select "include sub-directories".

Bob I.

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Ricardo M. Urbano - W2K/NT4 MVP

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Jun 21, 2002, 7:10:37 PM6/21/02

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Dude, you killed me on this one. I had to do 2 text searches of my
entire boot volume to verify your statement; one in Explorer and one at
the command prompt.

Hate to say it, but my search worked. In Explorer, I highlighted C:\,
hit F3, and searched for files containing some text that I knew was in
an .ini file in my WINNT folder. About an hour later, sure enough it
came up in the results window. Must be something about your Explorer
view settings.

If you're not convinced, do it at the command prompt, which is easier
anyway rather than undoing all the stupid default Explorer view
settings:

C:\>findstr /l /s /i /m "stringyouaresearchingfor" c:\*.*

/l=literal search instead of using regular expressions
/s=recurse through all subdirectories
/i=case insensitive search
/m=show only fully qualified path to found files
do include the quotes around the search text.

gl!

George Hester

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Jun 22, 2002, 6:01:00 AM6/22/02

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There is an issue in Windows XP similar to this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q309173

But as this article explicitly states not in Windows 2000. Or shouldn't anyway.

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Tyson Maeda

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Jun 23, 2002, 6:58:53 AM6/23/02

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Hi,

I posted a message similar to this just recently. My Search->Files
doesn't search all directories either.

Best of luck,

Tyson

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J N Katzman-TCM

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Jun 24, 2002, 10:22:55 AM6/24/02

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Tyson,

Glad (I think) to see you have the same issue. I've enabled all advanced searcg options, don't hide system/hidden/etc files.

Just to be sure it's the same problem:

Do dir c:\file.xxx /s finds all copies of a file in all folders, including subs off of c:\winnt.

Search-files- file.xxx (all subs) does not find the file in any subdirectory off of c:\winnt.

Search-files file.xxx (while pointing to the C:\winnt directory) then all files are found in winnt and all subdirs off of
winnt.

Thanks,

Joel

Tyson Maeda

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Jun 25, 2002, 5:47:21 PM6/25/02

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Hi Joel,

Thanks for the tip. Is there a solution like this to the Start/Search option?

Thanks again,

Tyson

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