How to find folders within folders?

[dwilbank]

I want to search a whole drive for folders that are children of other folders (or folders which contain other folders).
(Trying to make this particular drive have no hierarchies more than 1 folder deep).

It seems like the best way to do this is to search for folders that are children of other folders.

but I can't find the correct combination of folder: and child: to make it work.

Help - how?

[NotNull]

(Trying to make this particular drive have no hierarchies more than 1 folder deep).

Everything also has the depth: function.

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folder:   depth:>1

should give you all folders that 2 levels deep or more from the root (C:\)


If you want to get all folders that are 2 levels deep or more compared to a folder - let's say "c:\program files\" - you can use the parent: function: ("!" means NOT)

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folder:   !parent:"c:\program files\"    "c:\program files\"

( = get all folders that are below "c:\program files", but not the ones that are in "c:\program files" itself)

You can find more about these functions here.

[dwilbank]

Thank you notnull - :depth was the ticket!

[NotNull]

You're welcome
(thanks for your feedback!)