Open the Find by Attributes dialog
-
Select
Find
| Files by Attributes...
or (Alt+I,A)
from the main menu to open the dialog where you
can specify exactly which files you want to
find.
- If one or more folders are selected they will be
automatically entered into the Paths
filed of the dialog when it opens
- FileBoss remembers what has been searched in the
past even when it has been closed and then started
again so you can always select a previous entry
using the drop down list.
Specify what you want to find
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Select
the drives or paths you want to check. Multiple
paths are separated with the semi-colon (;),
comma (,) or bar character (|).
You can even specify folders to exclude by
preceding the name with a minus sign. For
complete details right-click the field in the
program.
- Click
OK to search and create a Virtual Folder of all
matching files
Searching for NTFS Attributes
This is an advanced function.
If you are looking for files with particular NTFS
Attributes click the Show MTFS Attributes button to expand the dialog.
NTFS Advanced attributes are Temporary, Offline,
Mounted, Not Indexed,
Compressed, Encrypted and Sparse.
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Hint:
You can
limit your search (and thus speed it up
and make its results more meaningful) by
specifying one or more folders to search instead
of just a whole drive. You can also, in the
Patterns field, specify only certain files to
search file such as
*.doc ; *.jpg ; *.jpeg
; *.html ; *.htm.
More about entering multiple paths and patterns
Both the paths and file patterns fields can accept
either simple entries, e.g.
C\Data\My Data and *.bmp or very
complex strings that specify not only what to include but also what to
exclude from a, most typically, search.
For instance both can specify multiple objects such as
C\Data\My Data ; D:\Backup\MyData
and
*.bmp ; *.gif ; *.png ; *.jpeg ; *.jpg
For a complete description of these fields either right-click the
mouse over the fields for context help from within FileBoss or see
Advanced Paths & Patterns.
Sorting by File Attributes
(A column that displays
file attributes is present by default but if it
is turned off you can turn it back on using the
following procedure. Attributes are displayed as
A, S, H, and R.)
- This
works the same in both Explore Views and Virtual
File Sets.
- Move the mouse over the column headers (the
column headers are at the top of the Contents
Window and have titles like Filename, Ext and
Size.)
- Right-click the to display a list of
columns that can be displayed
- Check the box next to
Attributes.
- Click
the Close Menu button.
Hint:
You can change the order of the columns by
clicking a header with the left mouse button and,
while holding the mouse button down, dragging the
column to its new location.
Sorting by File Attributes
Click on the Attributes
column header. To reverse the sort click the column
header again.
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