Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. How do you search all files for a file containing specific text in Windows Vista? This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 7. Report abuse. Hitting delete doesn't help and I can't find them on my hard drive.
If I click on the folder they are supposedly in, I get a message saying no such folder exists. For what ever reason, Microsoft left that out of Vista. They assume we know what file type we are searching for and expect us to type it such as doc, xls, pdf, etc….
The problem is sometimes you may not know the file extension and have no way of searching for the app in a list like the way you can in XP. Which works great if you're trying to find "important. I found a neat trick though: In the search box, type "type:folder name:important" and it will work.
This is just Disinfo for me. I don't even use the Index, to save on resources. So do anyone know how I can search in file contents on vista without it without renaming filetypes to TXT? Better than using Run control.
This doesn't address how to search the contents of files that have no extension. I have text files that were downloaded and they have no extension at all so I can't add their extension to the file types list in Advanced Options. Are you sure the files don't have file extensions? This is in my opinion like teaching a magic. I dont know what a dumb design this complex search scheme. Look xp pro how simple and works nice. What if I want to only index a few file types e.
Word documents and emails , but don't want to have to go un-click on every single other type? I couldn't find a "un-select all" or similar feature. Is that possible? I have an external hard drive with hundreds of folders and subfolders because I have backed up the entire hard drives of like five different computers. The files are chaotic and scattered all over the place. I want to be able to search the entire external hard drive backup to identify every single music file.
And I want to search for every kind of photo jpg, tiff, etc. And I want to search for every kind of video mpg, mov, wmv, etc. Back in April, guest author Nick Santilli described how he uses metadata as a filing system on his Mac. Today, with Windows Vista, this method works on a PC as well. Let's take a look at the not-perfect-but-a-good-start file tagging and saved search features of Vista. Tags have to be separated by semi-colons not commas , and tags with spaces are allowed without quotes.
Tag existing files using their properties dialog notice the neat suggest-a-tag action :. Or in the Details pane and the bottom of the file's Explorer window when the file is selected:. This limitation, in a word, blows. Now that you can assign your own metadata in the form of tags and ratings, and in the case of images, title, subject and comments you can find files based on a keyword in a flash with Vista's new search capabilities.
Remember how many times you wanted to shoot the stupid little animated Windows XP search puppy while he panted and dug as search ground away and finally came up with nothing you actually needed? Yeah, forget about all that. Vista's search is really good. If not Google Desktop good, then at least Spotlight good, and you can save searches as folders, too.
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