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Posted by dg on July 18, 2005, 12:14 pm
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I'll second that :-)
-- DG
- "Keep an open mind, not a blank one."
> Great! Thank you very much. Good you mentioned
> the bug with special folders, because otherwise I would
> have concluded the advanced syntax doesn't work.
>
> BTW, if you have renamed a special folder (in my case
> the My Documents is called My Stuff), you still have to
> use "My Documents" in the query syntax. The new name
> (like "My Stuff") doesn't work either.
>
> Now, wouldn't it be nice to have an advanced syntax
> dialog to compose a query in a user friendly way? For
> example, picking up the folder path in a browse dialog
> rather than having to type (or copy/paste) long paths.
>
>
>
> "Brandon Paddock [MSFT]"
>| If you want to limit results to certain folders (for instance,
>| only find results in the "C:\music" folder), you can try using
>| the Advanced Query Syntax.
>|
>| for example:
>| coldplay folder:"C:\music" or
>| coldplay under:"C:\music"
>|
>| Whatever you put immediately after the "under:" option will be
>| searched against the "folder" column. So you could search for:
>| coldplay under:"music"
>| and get results that are under any folder with "music" in the
>| name.
>|
>| Also, I should point out that there's currently a small quirk/bug
>| in the way the indexer processes some folders. It has to do with
>| "special folders" like My Music and Desktop. Instead of
>| "C:\Documents And Settings\Brandon\Desktop" items on the desktop
>| will be calaloged as simply "Desktop\foo.txt" and so on. Same
>| goes for "My Documents\My Music\foo.txt" - so searches that
>| include drive letters will often not work as expected.
>|
>| Hope that helps.
>|
>|
>| "Jerry" wrote:
>|
>| > If I know that what I am looking for can only be in
>| > certain folders, is there a way of telling MSN
>| > Desktop Search to limit the results only to those
>| > folders, for that particular session?
>| >
>| >
>| >
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