User Guide

Chapter 6: Organizing
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Sync to
browser
settings
Imports the current Browser settings, including Selective Browsing
settings, into the Search pane. Note that this may also remove criteria
from the Search pane.
Properties area
In the Properties area, you can identify file properties that you want to search for, and specify
ranges of values to include or exclude from your search.
To use the Properties area:
1. Below the Search file properties for field, click Add.
2. In the Add Search Criteria dialog box, select one or more properties on which to base your
search.
3. Click OK.
4. In the Properties area, click the hyperlinks to define conditional statements for each
property.
5. Click Start to perform the search.
Searching with file name patterns
You can type a text pattern into the Search pane's Search for files and folders named field to
search for file names. You can search simple patterns such as portions of file names, or more
advanced patterns that include wild cards.
File name pattern wild cards
Wild card
Result
Example
? Matches any single character in the file
name.
ca?.jpg results in cat.jpg, cap.jpg, and
car.jpg, but not cats.jpg
* Matches zero or more characters in the
file name.
cat* results in cat.jpg, cats.jpg, and
cathy.jpg
[…] Matches any of the enclosed characters. ca[tr] results in cat.jpg or car.jpg, but
not cap.jpg
[!…] Matches any character not enclosed. cat[!0] results in cata.jpg and catb.jpg,
but not cat0.jpg
[…-…] Matches any character in the specified
range.
cat[a-f0-9] results in cata.jpg,
catb.jpg, catf.jpg and cat0.jpg, cat1.jpg,
…, cat9.jpg
\ Blocks the use of other wild card
characters that are also characters
permitted in a file name, such as square
brackets: [ ]. The * and ? characters
are not permitted in file names so this
function does not work with them.
Because square brackets are wild cards,
if you wanted to search for a file name
that contains a bracket, you can
precede the bracket with a backslash:
ACD\[123\] results in ACD[123].gif