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AND Searches
If you enter two or more words in a text field,
Pro Tools finds files that contain all of those
words. For example, if you type Dog Bark, only
files that contain both the words Dog and Bark
are found.
Quotations Marks for Text Strings
Text enclosed in quotation marks is searched as
one text string. For example, if you type “Dog
Bark” (with quotes), only items with Dog Bark
anywhere in the File Name are considered a
match.
Search Modes
DigiBase provides two different text searching
environments:
Quick Search Mode Applies wildcards before and
after each text string. For example, a Quick
search for Dog finds Dogs, dog_bark, and
howling_dogs.
Advanced Search Mode Does not automatically
apply any wildcards. Therefore, an Advanced
search on Dog finds Big Dog, but not Dogs (unless
you manually add a wildcard, as described in
“Wildcard Characters (* and ?)” on page 291).
In addition, Advanced Search recognizes word
breaks such as underscores and capitalization.
For example, an Advanced search on Dog also
finds Big_Dog (Big-underscore-Dog) and BigDog,
though it would not find BigDogs.
To enable Advanced Search mode:
 Click to enable the Advanced Search mode
option.
To return to Quick Search mode:
 Click to deselect the Advanced Search mode.
About the Search Process
Searches are conducted in two passes, each indi-
cated by Search Status displayed in the Search
pane (and the Task window).
Searching Databases The existing databases are
searched first. While this is the fastest search
pass, this search pass can only be as accurate as
the database (in other words, if the database is
not completely up to date you might not find
the files you want).
File System Search Pass This is the second pass
of a search. This search is not as fast as the Data-
base pass, but it is more thorough because it is
not relying on the database, which may or may
not be current.
Advanced Search mode option, in Search pane
Toggling search mode affects all DigiBase
browsers.
Each pass is completed before the next pass
begins.