Include My computer in find files' browse

surrender · Post by **surrender** » 28 Jul 2006 08:10

A small bug. I cannot select My Computer (MC) from the new browse button in the find files panel. I can select individual drives but not MC. The OK button is greyed out. But ofcourse i know two other ways to search in MC.

surrender · Post by **surrender** » 18 Aug 2006 11:44

I know you asked us to remind things in 4 weeks. Sorry to bump you sooner.

Post by **admin** » 18 Aug 2006 16:39

surrender wrote:I know you asked us to remind things in 4 weeks. Sorry to bump you sooner.

Just tell me why you don't use the tree view for this.

surrender · Post by **surrender** » 18 Aug 2006 17:19

admin wrote:
surrender wrote:I know you asked us to remind things in 4 weeks. Sorry to bump you sooner.
Just tell me why you don't use the tree view for this.

Sorry to bother you with these trivial things, but do consider these points:

1) One has to scroll all the way up.
2) One has to open a tab "My computer" to search something in it. Thats not the case with browse button, it just gives the path to search.
3) Why have you excluded only "My computer"??

PS: Actually i was going to suggest something more, i.e. to have a checkbox kind of thing next to each drive/folder in the browse pop-up window. This way one can include or exclude just by checking or unchecking folders they need for searching. In short: a kind of browse anti-virus softwares use.
(Did you not want everything to be easy yet powerful??)

jacky · Post by **jacky** » 18 Aug 2006 17:40

surrender wrote:1) One has to scroll all the way up.
2) One has to open a tab "My computer" to search something in it. Thats not the case with browse button, it just gives the path to search.

4) Adding it to your Catalog and it's only one click away!

(or you could use Templates too

)

surrender wrote:PS: Actually i was going to suggest something more, i.e. to have a checkbox kind of thing next to each drive/folder in the browse pop-up window. This way one can include or exclude just by checking or unchecking folders they need for searching. In short: a kind of browse anti-virus softwares use.

That could actually be pretty cool yes...

(Even though my multi-location searches are usually done in the same places (read: I got a template for that

) or done on full drives, so I go to My Computer and select the drives I wanna search in. Still, could be a nice addition!

surrender · Post by **surrender** » 18 Aug 2006 17:58

jacky wrote:
surrender wrote:1) One has to scroll all the way up.
2) One has to open a tab "My computer" to search something in it. Thats not the case with browse button, it just gives the path to search.
4) Adding it to your Catalog and it's only one click away! (or you could use Templates too )

but adding it to catalog doesnt help because it would still be the same as in point 2 i.e change your present tab to "My computer". And yes i use templates now. They are cool.

Post by **admin** » 18 Aug 2006 22:09

surrender, ever thought of typing it into the location field?

It has autocomplete, so you just have to type "m" (if you happen to have a drive M:\ then type "my").

Apart from this: I managed to make MyComputer available from the browse dialog ... but there's a catch: some items (network stuff) are now availabe that are not searchable. Hmmm, not nice.

surrender · Post by **surrender** » 18 Aug 2006 23:49

Oh yes you are right.

I almost forgot the auto-complete. Thanks for the tip. and also to make MC available via browse.