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Trying to get to grips with visual filters for a bit of file reorganisation I was trying to do.

Documents folder has lots of files, a large number of which are of the same type. Selecting those is easy.

But I wanted to select those based on their date (last modified date) and I can't make the <date yyyy> thing work for documents from this year, and if I try any other way of trying to add a specific year to the visual filter I either get nothing or I get results that include files from other years.

I expect I'm doing something wrong but I've tried to follow the info in the help and the online docs and I can't find anything describing selection by date methods at all. Can someone help (or point me at where I should have looked before posting this ) please?

oblivion wrote:Trying to get to grips with visual filters for a bit of file reorganisation I was trying to do.

Documents folder has lots of files, a large number of which are of the same type. Selecting those is easy.

But I wanted to select those based on their date (last modified date) and I can't make the <date yyyy> thing work for documents from this year, and if I try any other way of trying to add a specific year to the visual filter I either get nothing or I get results that include files from other years.

I expect I'm doing something wrong but I've tried to follow the info in the help and the online docs and I can't find anything describing selection by date methods at all. Can someone help (or point me at where I should have looked before posting this ) please?

Yeah, the visual filter doesn't support other columns (only name). A work around i use is: use selfiter first and then filter by selection, like this:
//Filter all files with their date modified 2011
selfilter "2011", , "Modified";
#359; //Filter by selection

serendipity wrote: Yeah, the visual filter doesn't support other columns (only name). A work around i use is: use selfiter first and then filter by selection, like this:
//Filter all files with their date modified 2011
selfilter "2011", , "Modified";
#359; //Filter by selection

Thanks, that's perfect. (Well, it gives me a boost in the right direction and the motivation to extend it into a script with prompts for month or year )