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How to find files with paths longer than 255 characters?
Posted: 31 Oct 2010 20:11
by Jerry
Hi,
Is there any way currently in XYplorer (9.60) to search recursively down a hierarchy for files having complete paths longer than 255 characters? Ideally, I would love to see an option for this in the Name & Location tab of the find panel.
Re: How to find files with paths longer than 255 characters?
Posted: 31 Oct 2010 20:43
by SkyFrontier
try using this at the
Name field on
Find Files:
Re: How to find files with paths longer than 255 characters?
Posted: 31 Oct 2010 21:33
by SkyFrontier
(useful hint) for reference on search by length (lent:):
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v9.00.0204 - 2010-04-26 12:00
! Find Files: Numeric name filter types "len" and "lent" were
internally treated as string parts when used without comparison
operator and without quotes.
E.g. 'lent:10' would also match length 107 because "*10*" matches
"107". You had to do 'lent:"10"' to work around this. This is
fixed now:
- Find all items whose title is exactly 10 characters long. Both
work identically:
lent:10
lent:"10"
- Find all items whose title length contains "10":
lent:*10*
v9.00.0202 - 2010-04-23 12:05
+ Find Files: Now you can search by the length of the file title
(that's the document name without the path).
Simply prefix "lent:" to the search term in the Name field.
Examples:
- Find all items whose title is exactly 10 characters long:
lent:10
- Find all items whose title is 3 characters long or shorter:
lent: <= 3
- Find all items with a long file name (> 12 characters):
lent: > 12
Re: How to find files with paths longer than 255 characters?
Posted: 01 Nov 2010 02:22
by Jerry
Excellent. Although, it seems that len is the one to use for the full path, not lent. Help doc says that also. Thanks!