Including the path?

[terrypin]

There must be some basic rules that I've not yet grasped, because I can't work out how to search for files within a given path.

If I enter *_bg.jpg as my search target that works fine, with several thousand result. But, as a simple example, if I enter \Layout\*_bg.jpg or *\Layout\*_bg.jpg then I get no hits. I have tried this with and without 'Match Path' enabled.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

[void]

Please make sure Regex is disabled from the Search menu.

Wildcards match the entire filename (or the full path and filename if match path is enabled)

Could you please give an example of a folder or file that you would expect to match *\Layout\*_bg.jpg?

[terrypin]

Thanks. Turns out to be one of those pesky intermittent/inconsistent issues. On trying again just now (after a reboot of my XP PC) it worked as expected!
(I'd tried in vain several times earlier before posting.)

For this successful search Regex wasn't enabled. (Nor was match Path, which puzzles me. In fact I'm not clear what that option really means or when it needs to be used?)

The search for *\Layout\*_bg.jpg gave around 3,000 results, the first couple of which were:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MAGIX\Movie Edit Pro 2013 Premium\DVD\Layout\00_c_0_NoThumbDefault\NoThumbDefault_bg.jpg
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MAGIX\Movie Edit Pro 2013 Premium\DVD\Layout\00_c_BlueWave\BlueWave_bg.jpg

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

[terrypin]

I'm back with a variation of what to me seems the same problem!

This search failed (with or without Match path enabled).
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MAGIX\Movie Edit Pro 2013 Premium\DVD\Layout\*.tga

Yet there are many such files. For example:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MAGIX\Movie Edit Pro 2013 Premium\DVD\Layout\C_SimpleSmooth\_SimpleSmooth_mask.tga

But this worked (although giving more results than I wanted).
*Layout\*.tga

[void]

Please use double quotes to escape spaces:

Code: Select all

"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MAGIX\Movie Edit Pro 2013 Premium\DVD\Layout\*.tga"

[terrypin]

Ah! Thanks, I should have tried that - so familiar in other contexts!

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK