searching limiting by subfolders level
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Leopoldus
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searching limiting by subfolders level
Is it now possible to limit searching by folder level? Eg to search though only the current folder and all its subfolders from the first till the NNN nested level?
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Re: searching limiting by subfolders level
No, that's not possibe now. Quite exotic wish. Do you think another person on this planet will need it, too 
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Leopoldus
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Re: searching limiting by subfolders level
Well, I am not sure how exotic this wish is. However some advanced searching applications do use this option. So we should assume that there are some persons on this planet, who need this function.admin wrote:Quite exotic wish. Do you think another person on this planet will need it, too
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Re: searching limiting by subfolders level
Well, I don't want to get too philosophical here, but isn't it typical for capitalistic markets to produce stuff/features nobody needs, just to "out-feature" the competitors?Leopoldus wrote:Well, I am not sure how exotic this wish is. However some advanced searching applications do use this option. So we should assume that there are some persons on this planet, who need this function.admin wrote:Quite exotic wish. Do you think another person on this planet will need it, too
But let's talk about you: why do you need it?
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Gandolf
Re: searching limiting by subfolders level
There is one other user who would find it useful at times. I know that the file(s) I want to locate are in sub-directories one level down and not in any lower levels. Html documents, for example, but not those that are sub-documents of the main document (and therefore in a sub-sub-directory). Searching the entire tree and all it's sub-directories is therefore unnecessary since I know nothing will be found in those lower levels (or if it is it won't be what I am searching for). Not a situation that occurs very often so, for me, not very important.admin wrote:Quite exotic wish. Do you think another person on this planet will need it, too
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Leopoldus
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Re: searching limiting by subfolders level
Just right. But it is not yet the main problem.Gandolf wrote:Searching the entire tree and all it's sub-directories is therefore unnecessary since I know nothing will be found in those lower levels...
This is the problem indeed.... or if it is it won't be what I am searching for).
And although TrackerV works very quickly when searhing by files name, the searching process becomes much slower when you use "contained text" filter.
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Re: searching limiting by subfolders level
Ok, I agree it could be useful.
Implementing depth control, however, would
(a) slow down all search routines (indep of it being currently activated).
(b) and further fatten and complicate the user interface.
At the moment I don't think it's worth it.
Implementing depth control, however, would
(a) slow down all search routines (indep of it being currently activated).
(b) and further fatten and complicate the user interface.
At the moment I don't think it's worth it.
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