XYplorer Beta Club

Great. Thank you. For beginnners like me a help section of vast size is needed for the wonderful power of XYplorer. But the Forum serves for that. Then again, could there perhaps be a short bibliography for the most necessary basics?

I'm sure this is very simple, but I can't figure out how to do it. I want to combine len: >x when searching for a type of file (e.g. *.pdf) or other named file. Help section says "Simply prefix "len:" to the search term in the name field." But "search term" here is simp...

How can I delete duplicates automatically? Say, having found a list of duplicate files, I want to delete of each pair the one that has the shorter path?

Many thanks to yusef88, highend, and SammaySarkar.

How can I delete the first ten characters of file name of all files in a folder?
And how to delete particular characters in file name of all files in a folder?

Many thanks.

I try putting in for Name Downloads/d and find nothing.

How do I search for folder names only?

eil wrote:what do you mean by delete tabs- close?! or physically delete tabsets containing tabs?.

The latter.

How do I delete all tabs?
Umapati

Sorry for this post. I've now looked more carefully at help file, and len: > 248 does all I need.

Is there a script for finding file names that are too long for Win 7, and automatically chopping off the end of the names?