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How to search?
Enter one or more search terms (see below Searching of files and Searching of directories). Default mode is OR, add '+' in front of a search term to force AND. Search terms are separated by a space or '+'. If there is only one OR term it is changed to be an AND term because one OR term has no meaning.
Searching is case insensitive, i.e. abc = aBc = ABC
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abc +def ghi = def AND (abc OR ghi)
+abc def +ghi = abc AND def AND ghi
abc def = abc OR def
+*name* *.ext1 *.ext2 *.ext3 = *name* AND (*.ext1 OR *.ext2 OR *.ext3)
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Quoting
You can surround your search term with double quotes ("") if it contains any characters ('+', spaces) that would otherwise modify your query.
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+"This must be found" abc def = "This must be found" AND (abc OR def)
"It's OK" = "It's OK"
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Searching files
Fast File Search is optimized for searching files by a wildcard when there are some normal characters (not '*' or '?') specified in the beginning or in the end of the mask (for example '*.iso')
, or minimum file size >= '10m'. Other (i.e. slow) queries can be disabled in configuration.
Wildcard
Files are searched by a file name mask that can contain some of these wildcard characters:
'*' stands for an arbitrary amount of arbitrary characters
'?' stands for a single arbitrary character
For example '*.iso' means: all files whose file name ends with '.iso'
Substring
Files are searched by a part (substring) of their name.
Regular expression
Files are searched by a regular expression. Extended version of regular expressions is used.
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Searching directories
Directories are searched by the same methods like files are. There is no preferred search method for searching directories.
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Online Check
Verifies whether the host is online by connecting to the host. It will NOT check whether the file can still be found on the host. |
Bounds of file size
If you want to find only files larger than some size or smaller than some size (or both) specify the appropriate bound(s). The bounds of file size are in bytes, you can add suffix 'K' for kilobytes, 'M' for megabytes, 'G' for gigabytes, 'k' for thousands of bytes, 'm' for millions of bytes, 'g' for billions of bytes.
For example '50M' means 50 megabytes.
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