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Find

Find Files

The Files tab of the Find window provides a way to easily search for files

anywhere on your site, within a specific project, folder, or subfolder. You can

limit or expand your search by including search criteria such as date, original

author, file name, or text. You can also include locked files and all text within

all files in your search. Files that match your search criteria appear in the window

display beneath the dialog box. When you click a file name in the list, the

contents of the file appear in the details view to the right of the shortcut bar.

When updating or adding files to the site, the files are scanned and their

keywords are added to a database. Thus, when you search for a keyword or

phrase, rather than scanning the actual files, the database of indexed keywords

is scanned. This results in a faster search.

NOTE When adding a large file, or a large number of files at once, there may be a

time lag between adding the file and the completion of the indexing process. Thus,

if you add a file, attempt to search on it immediately and it doesn't appear in the

search results, this does not mean that the search failed. Try your search again in a

few minutes. Files that are corrupt, or a file type that is not indexed (see

Basics

(page 219) for a list of file types whose contents are indexed), will not be

returned in the search result.

To learn more about how to search for files, see the following sections:

Search for a file

1 In the tree view, select the site, project, or folder that you want to search.

2 In the shortcut bar, click Find. The Find tab is displayed.

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