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Currently the "Find Tag" TB button which runs a search like will scan only local drives. This, however, gets confusing when you currently are on a network drive or a USB drive where matches are present. Not sure how to handle this. Should * better stand for all locations? It certainly looks like "all locations" to me anyway...

The disadvantage of "all locations" would be, of course, that you might get stuff listed that's currently not "there" because the stick is not plugged in... hmm... which could also be an advantage because it would remind you that you should plug something into drive Q: ...

admin wrote:Currently the "Find Tag" TB button which runs a search like

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*?tag:"Blue" /r

will scan only local drives. This, however, gets confusing when you currently are on a network drive or a USB drive where matches are present. Not sure how to handle this. Should * better stand for all locations? It certainly looks like "all locations" to me anyway...

The disadvantage of "all locations" would be, of course, that you might get stuff listed that's currently not "there" because the stick is not plugged in... hmm... which could also be an advantage because it would remind you that you should plug something into drive Q: ...

I think in corporate environment you have many USB- and network-Drives
which are not always connected/from interest.
So how about an decision?

*?tag:all locations
*!?tag:only local drives

or better
**?tag:all locations
*?tag:only local drives

when i first used this search i was confused when it found nothing on my network drives. i saw that you originally implemented the search for local drives only and it was no big deal for me so no change request back then. But now that you mention it: yes, i'd like to use this kind of search for all locations.

Stefan wrote:

admin wrote:Currently the "Find Tag" TB button which runs a search like

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*?tag:"Blue" /r

will scan only local drives. This, however, gets confusing when you currently are on a network drive or a USB drive where matches are present. Not sure how to handle this. Should * better stand for all locations? It certainly looks like "all locations" to me anyway...

The disadvantage of "all locations" would be, of course, that you might get stuff listed that's currently not "there" because the stick is not plugged in... hmm... which could also be an advantage because it would remind you that you should plug something into drive Q: ...

I think in corporate environment you have many USB- and network-Drives
which are not always connected/from interest.
So how about an decision?

*?tag:all locations
*!?tag:only local drives

or better
**?tag:all locations
*?tag:only local drives

I had thought along similar lines, but now I think it's too much of a complication. I will simply take "*" for all locations and wait for complaints. I assume it's the good and expected behavior for most users.