Dear Alastair,
How do you feel about VBScript? I don't know about making the
results clickable, but it would not be hard to search a given directory for
files that meet your criteria and then dump to the a CSV file.
Jason
Jason Kramer
University Archives and Records Management
002 Pearson Hall
(302) 831 - 3127 (voice)
(302) 831 - 6903 (fax)
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alastair Burr
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2013 12:02 PM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - OFF Subject - MS Search problem
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.JPG NOT 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.
