Search Results Based on the Existence of Another ?

[GreetingsFromPoland]

hi!

• i have a folder that contains several hundred subfolders.

• each subfolder (no folder within it) contains ZIP files, for example, "afile.zip", "bfile.zip", etc.

• some of these folders contain a matching "-delta" file, for example, "filename.zip" and "filename-delta.zip". for the matching one, "-delta" is always appended to the original file name

is it possible to search for files that only have a matching "-delta" version and display the name of the original file in the Search Results tab ?

so in this case, the "find" would find "filename.zip" because the "filename-delta.zip" exists also and show "filename.zip" the Search Results.

currently i was searching for "-delta" files, going into the containing folder and working with the "original", repeat. was very time consuming.

[highend]

Either scripting or apply a visual filter to remove the ones you don't want to see after searching via gui

[Horst]

Such search maybe possible with the Everything script.

[GreetingsFromPoland]

thank you both ! i tried some scripting and visual filters, but couldn't get it exactly right. i don't have Everything loaded/running any longer.

i got real close using Regex for non-capturing groups and something called negative look ahead (or something like that), soooo close, but no.

i ended up grabbing a coffee and going into the folders and manually removing the non "-delta" match. it was a one-time job that saved me close to 400GBs of space, so time well spent.

thank you both again for your tips.