XYplorer Beta Club

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?

No, that's not possibe now. Quite exotic wish. Do you think another person on this planet will need it, too

admin wrote:Quite exotic wish. Do you think another person on this planet will need it, too

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.

Leopoldus wrote:

admin wrote:Quite exotic wish. Do you think another person on this planet will need it, too

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.

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?
But let's talk about you: why do you need it?

admin wrote:Quite exotic wish. Do you think another person on this planet will need it, too

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.

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...

Just right. But it is not yet the main problem.

... or if it is it won't be what I am searching for).

This is the problem indeed.

And although TrackerV works very quickly when searhing by files name, the searching process becomes much slower when you use "contained text" filter.

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.