Re: Actually, let me clarify
Posted by Joe Power on 2010-01-3 05:45:55, SundayIn reply to Actually, let me clarify posted by chicken n peas on 2010-01-2 11:35:10, Saturday
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OK, I think I see what you are asking. The most likely reason we're having a breakdown in communication is that few people use Windows' built-in search. There are much better ones freely available - ones that support full regular expressions and do not require the cycle-stealing indexing service to work optimally. That said, let's see if we can get Windows' Search to do what you want. The issue here is still connected to the file extensions. After doing some reading, I see no way to add additional file extensions to the ones searched for when you select Pictures, music, or video. Search does, however, allow you to create your own search patterns and save for future use. As a toy example, let's say you wanted to find all the .flv and .mp3 files on your G: drive. Select Start->Search->Files and Folders to bring up the stupid little dog. in the All or part of the file name type "*.flv, *.mp3" (without the quotation marks) and in Look in select the G:\ drive. Start the search and make sure it does what you want, then select File->Save. Accept the default name and location for this search or change them to suit your style. This will create a file with a .fnd extension and an icon of a page with a magnifying glass on it. Double click on this file to bring up search with everything filled in. So, basically, you'll have to manually create a search pattern once and then you can save it and reuse it. So what should the patterns be? To start, lets split videos, pictures & music into 3 individual searches (have you ever really wanted a song when looking for a movie?) For videos I'd use a pattern like "*.mpg, *.mpeg, *.avi, *.wmv, *.mov, *.flv". (Again w/o the quotes.) For music I'd go with "*.mp3, *.wav, *.mid" and for pictures ".jpg, *.gif, *.png, *.bmp, *.tif". You may have files with other extensions in each of these categories. If so, just add them and resave the search file. Note that you do not need to see the file extensions in Windows Explorer in order to search for them (but only a very foolish person would stay with Microsoft's default setting of hiding them. Thta's the best I can come up with using XP's built-in Search command. There are, as I said, many free alternatives and I'd urge you to check them out. hope that helps Joe [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [SlySurf1] [SlySurf 2] [SlySurf3] [MyShield] [Proxify] [Anonimisierungsdienst] |
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