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A search for a file I just did resulted in in the following:

This view is empty.
1 item is hidden.

Not being a power-user, I don't actually know right now why that file is hidden. I was wondering how to find out if this might be the file I was actually searching for. It might be useful if there was a link/button somewhere around the '1 item is hidden' that lets me show the hidden item(s); or alternatively an indication/hint for how to show the file.

Hover with the mouse over the first part of the status line. It's tooltip should give you a hint why something is hidden

Thanks highend.

The tooltip indicated: (see Configuration | Tree and List)

And indeed, after checking 'Show hidden files and folders' (I tried some others as well), the view now just says:

This view is empty.


i.e. without the '1 item is hidden.' Does that mean Search ignored one file, because it was hidden? (but it didn't match the search filters anyway?)

phitsc wrote:i.e. without the '1 item is hidden.' Does that mean Search ignored one file, because it was hidden? (but it didn't match the search filters anyway?)

Exactly. For performance reasons the search does not even look at files that would be hidden anyway. So the message '1 item is hidden' is a bit midleading. More correct would be '1 hidden item was not looked at" -- but that's a bit long for the status bar.

Thanks for the explanation.

The '1 item is hidden' is not displayed in the status bar by the way but right below 'This view is empty'. Maybe '1 hidden item skipped' or '1 hidden item ignored' would be clearer. But then again, maybe not.