Possible to use wildcard in path separator search?

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Coldblackice
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Possible to use wildcard in path separator search?

Post by Coldblackice »

I often use the path-separator ability to quickly whittle down a large resultant search set by excluding certain folders, e.g.:

Search:

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sqlite
But then seeing too many recently-modified files in the results from %AppData%\Firefox\Cache, causing the search results to "spam" cache file entries, I'll then add to the search:

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sqlite !\Cache
This instantly cuts out all the fast-changing cache files in the %AppData%\Firefox\Cache folder from the results. This is great, however, sometimes there are multiple directories with "Cache" somewhere in their file path. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get a wildcard to work in this situation, such as

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sqlite !\*cache
Is this possible? If not, could this ability be added to a future version?
void
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Re: Possible to use wildcard in path separator search?

Post by void »

Please try searching for:
sqlite !*\*cache*

or please try disabling match whole filenames when using wildcards:
  • In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
  • Click the Search tab on the left.
  • Uncheck Match whole filename when using wildcards.
  • Click OK.
  • Search for sqlite !\*cache
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