Find files in the background.

[luciano_f]

I know that it is possible to open another instance of XYplorer and leave one doing the research but as I do a lot of research it would be interesting to have the possibility of the research taking place on a separate thread, and I can continue working with XYplorer with the research in progress, just as it is done with file copies.

[TheTodd]

For heavy duty searches I use Agent Ransack (aka FileLocator Pro/Lite)
the free version works great for what I do, and its fast.

I created a button that starts up Agent Ransack with my current XY path.
run """C:\Program Files\Mythicsoft\Agent Ransack\AgentRansack.exe"" -d ""<curpath>"""

[luciano_f]

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For heavy duty searches I use Agent Ransack (aka FileLocator Pro/Lite)
the free version works great for what I do, and its fast.

I prefer to do everything with just one program, and as I'm dating XYplorer and finding it fantastic I believe it would be interesting to have this search functionality in the background.

[admin]

Would certainly be nice, but... hmmm, this would be very hard. Search is so complex...

Here is an idea: Triggering a "background search" would open a 2nd XYplorer instance which does the search and shows the results. But even that is full of problems...