To temporarily exclude folder

[vuslx]

To temporarily exclude this appdata folder from a search, include the following in your search:
!c:\users\*\appdata\*

this code works fine 1.4. but it fails with 1.5a.

[void]

Please try the following search:

!c:\users\*\appdata\**

In Everything 1.5:

? = match a single character.
* = match any character (except \) any number of times.
** = match any character any number of times.

wildcards
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[ChrisGreaves]

To temporarily exclude this appdata folder from a search, include the following in your search:
!c:\users\*\appdata\*

this code works fine 1.4. but it fails with 1.5a.

@Void.
If I have understood the search string correctly, the example given in Vusix's post fails for me in 1.5a

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I do not have 1.4 installed.
The example "!c:\users\*\appdata\**" given in your response to Vusix appears to work for me in 1.5a

I have no investment in this; I greedily try every search expression that uses a feature that I haven't tried before..
I hope this makes sense.
Cheers, Chris

[NotNull]

Do you have Match Case enabled under the Search menu-entry? (or check the statusbar)

[ChrisGreaves]

Do you have Match Case enabled under the Search menu-entry? (or check the statusbar)

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ME? No.

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!c:\users\*\appdata\*

Am I parsing this correctly, that is, as Everything 1.5a would see it?
(1) There are no spaces in the search box, so this is a single search term; no petulant ANDs lurking there?
(2) The leading symbol is that for the NOT operator.
(3) We are looking for Objects that sit on drive C:
(4) Specifically three folders or more below the root folder
(5) Of which the first folder must match users and the third must match appdata
(6) And by item (2) above NOT that.

Loosely "anything except the appdata folder of the user who is currently logged in"
Or: "anywhere except my appdata"

There again, perhaps you were responding to Vusix's post?
Cheers, Chris

[NotNull]

There again, perhaps you were responding to Vusix's post?

I was responding to you (=ChrisGreaves) as I was puzzled by the results you got.
So my first guess was wrong.

I get a different outcome. Here all appdata folders from every user are no longer shown.
To reduce the number of results, I used:

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!c:\users\*\appdata\**   c:\users

No better ideas at this moment, other than looking at the debug log, but that's @voids department
(look for the green entries; those contain the expanded search queries)

[NotNull]

Man, I'm stupid!!

There is an extra * missing:

!c:\users\*\appdata\**

instead of:
!c:\users\*\appdata\*

you could also use
!c:\users\*\appdata\