Help with Search Required - can't find certain file types
Posted: 09 Jan 2013 21:33
I have tried many ways and somehow I cannot get the search 'section' built in to find some file types.
The search used to work OK so I am not sure what I am now doing wrong. I am running the latest version of XYPlorer downloaded from the main site.
I cannot find .cdr (Corel Draw) files and I cannot find Microsoft Publisher files.
I have set the search to find any files and also set to follow the path I am currently in.
I have set it to follow all sub-folders etc.
Even searching from the top of the tree i.e. starting at My Documents no Publisher or Corel Draw files show up in the found items search list.
What am I doing wrong or what am I missing regards setting up a search?
Many thanks for any help on this.
Added - Screen Shot of Tree - see attached file
The screen shot shows the whole of the sub-tree I want to traverse using the search function/dialogue. I did not fully expand it but surely XYPlorer should traverse it anyway.
If I do a search starting at My Documents with settings to search for all file types and with the same settings - then the search traverses the whole tree. It does this whether or not I start purely from My Documents (which I have relocated from where Windows puts this folder) or if I do it via going from the partition G: and then to the My Documents folder below this root.
What I do not understand and thought it to be the case - that XYPlorer will traverse from a 'root point' - if I can use that phrase for convenience and then move through all sub-folders until it reaches the bottom of a sub-tree i.e. from my MHA Project root through all of the sub-folders in that section of the whole tree.
It does seem to traverse this tree but for some reason only then list Microsoft Word documents - so clearly it is moving through this sub-tree but somehow failing to pick-up other file types despite using an 'All File Types' setting.
I am thinking I might have to give up on this and instead use the Everything program to help me but that will not do a 'by date' search/filter.
Again, many thanks for any help with this.
The search used to work OK so I am not sure what I am now doing wrong. I am running the latest version of XYPlorer downloaded from the main site.
I cannot find .cdr (Corel Draw) files and I cannot find Microsoft Publisher files.
I have set the search to find any files and also set to follow the path I am currently in.
I have set it to follow all sub-folders etc.
Even searching from the top of the tree i.e. starting at My Documents no Publisher or Corel Draw files show up in the found items search list.
What am I doing wrong or what am I missing regards setting up a search?
Many thanks for any help on this.
Added - Screen Shot of Tree - see attached file
The screen shot shows the whole of the sub-tree I want to traverse using the search function/dialogue. I did not fully expand it but surely XYPlorer should traverse it anyway.
If I do a search starting at My Documents with settings to search for all file types and with the same settings - then the search traverses the whole tree. It does this whether or not I start purely from My Documents (which I have relocated from where Windows puts this folder) or if I do it via going from the partition G: and then to the My Documents folder below this root.
What I do not understand and thought it to be the case - that XYPlorer will traverse from a 'root point' - if I can use that phrase for convenience and then move through all sub-folders until it reaches the bottom of a sub-tree i.e. from my MHA Project root through all of the sub-folders in that section of the whole tree.
It does seem to traverse this tree but for some reason only then list Microsoft Word documents - so clearly it is moving through this sub-tree but somehow failing to pick-up other file types despite using an 'All File Types' setting.
I am thinking I might have to give up on this and instead use the Everything program to help me but that will not do a 'by date' search/filter.
Again, many thanks for any help with this.
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