Thanks Joan – no immediate luck but I’ll try some variations later to see if I can get it to work that way round.
Regards, Alastair. From: Joan Peterson Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2013 5:40 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: OFF Subject - MS Search problem Use Not Filename instead of Filename Not. Joan On 9/21/2013 12:01 PM, Alastair Burr wrote: > Apologies but maybe someone on this list can help me: > I need to search regularly in Windows 7 Explorer for files where the > file name is not 6 characters (actually numerics) followed by an > underscore then a “B” and the extension and exclude all sub-folder names. > If I paste: FILENAME NOT ??????_B.JPGNOT kind:folders into the search > box I get the results I want. > I then click on the [Save search] button and give the search a name: > CheckFileNames. > However every time I click on the filename in the Searches folders > under my login I get: No items match your search. > The files I want to find usually have an additional character after > the B but I would also like to find files where there are not > precisely 6 digits preceding the underscore. (I have discovered in > trying to solve this that the 6 question marks don’t seem to actually > do anything and can be omitted.) > I have tried various attempts at escaping the 6 question marks to no > avail. > I know that I can use R:Base to do this but that seems like using an > exquisite sledgehammer to crack an ugly nut and it was the fact that > the saved search didn’t work that got me trying to find out why that > failed rather than not getting the results. > If anybody has any knowledge I’d be very grateful, > Regards, > Alastair.
