Search Only for Parent Folders, excluding subfolders

[inthevoid]

Hello,

I am trying to figure out how to search only for parent folders of a given name.

The parent:<path> option needs a specific path to work.

What I am looking is to search only for parent folders, in all drives (not a specified path), excluding subfolders of each parent folder.

Is this possible?

Thank you

[NotNull]

So, when you have a C:\MyFolder\MyFile.txt and you search for MyFile, you want it to report C:\MyFolder?

Use

child:myfile

[inthevoid]

File name is irrelevant. I want to search for folders but only the parent and not subfolders.

For example, if I have

C:\My Folder1\Subfolder1\Subfolder2\etc...
D:\My Folder1\Subfolder1\Subfolder2\etc...



and I search for Folder1, I want to return, C:\My Folder1 and D:\My Folder1 excluding any subfolders, just the parent folders of any given folder search.

Can it be done?

Thank you

[NotNull]

A couple of examples:

Try

folder: regex:"Folder1"$

This will search for all folders which names end with Folder1
If you have the exact folder nmae, you can search for:

folder: regex:"\\exact folder name"$

-or-

folder: wfn:"exact folder name"

[inthevoid]

What you have suggested is a very handy search. However is it possible to reverse it to search for folders that begin with a folder name? I don't get the desired results as I am looking for parent folders.

Also the parent folder name might have additional words in it.

For example, I might have

C:\My Folder1 Apples\Subfolder1\Subfolder2\etc...
D:\My Folder1 Apples\Subfolder1\Subfolder2\etc...

So when I search for "My Folder 1", to get only parent folders that have "My folder 1" part of the parent folders name.
In this case it would be

C:\My Folder1 Apples
D:\My Folder1 Apples

-

Another example would be if I have

C:\My Folder1 Apples\Subfolder1\Subfolder2\etc...
D:\My Folder1 Oranges\Subfolder1\Subfolder2\etc...

and search for "My Folder 1", to get as a result

C:\My Folder1 Apples
D:\My Folder1 Oranges\

-

Another example would be if I have

C:\A\My Folder1 Apples\Subfolder1\Subfolder2\etc...
D:\B\My Folder1 Oranges\Subfolder1\Subfolder2\etc...

and search for "My Folder 1", to get as a result

C:\A\My Folder1 Apples\
D:\B\My Folder1 Oranges


I hope I am making sense.

Thank you

[NotNull]

Certainly.

If you want only folders that start with "some text", search for:

folder: regex:"\\some text[^\\]*"$

Or:

folder: wfn:"some text*"

If you want only folders with "some text" anywhere in the name, search for:

folder: regex:"\\[^\\]*some text[^\\]*"$

Or:

folder: wfn:"*some text*"

(not tested, but should work)

EDIT:Tested.

[therube]

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folder: folder1 !*folder1*\*

?

[inthevoid]

Thank you for all of the replies.

I tried all suggestions but what worked for me was

folder: folder1 !*folder1*\*

Thank you all for taking the time to help!