Why the hell does everything new SUCK so bad?
"*(2)*" didn't work, " (2)" didn't work, nothing works.
Explorer is gone retarded. It can't see parenthesis, neither can distinguish _ and space.
Microsoft has lost their mind. I'm ****ed off man...what the hell?
Anyone with any other cure? I'm doing this for the same reason everyone else is doing it. I want to delete files I just copied. Help me out guys.
On Sunday, February 25, 2007 7:25 AM Erik-wikstro wrote:
How do I search for files who's name contains a parenthesis? Entering
(2) gives me all files containing 2 (which are a couple of houndred,
while there should only be two or three with (2) in the name) since the
parentheses have a special meaning when searching. Ive tried to use \ to
escape them but no luck.
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Erik Wikstr?m
On Sunday, February 25, 2007 10:09 AM Malke wrote:
Erik Wikstr?m wrote:
What about enclosing the search in quotes, like "(2)"? Does that work?
Malke
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On Sunday, February 25, 2007 12:58 PM Erik-wikstro wrote:
On 2007-02-25 16:09, Malke wrote:
Nope
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Erik Wikstr?m
On Monday, February 26, 2007 5:52 AM Bob Hallsworth wrote:
If there are spaces around those, add them withing the quotes. Works for me!
" (2) "
Bob
On Monday, February 26, 2007 1:01 PM Erik-wikstro wrote:
On 2007-02-26 11:52, Bob Hallsworth wrote:
Nope, no such luck, but for some reason the number of files found was
about halved.
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Erik Wikstr?m
On Wednesday, February 28, 2007 4:53 PM Wayne Hertz wrote:
Use XYplorer (or some other good explorer replacement) for searching and say
bye-bye to such problems.
On Friday, March 02, 2007 10:06 PM Andrew Leig wrote:
It's crazy not to allow people to search for the parentheses. The problem
arose for me as a result of two failed file transfers. In both cases, the new
files were renamed with a (1) or (2) suffix. So I have thousands of these
extraneous files on my computer to get rid of. Or I could clean the hard disk
and do another file transfer, but it would be far simpler if I could simply
delete all files with a (1) or (2) suffix.
Oh, and I just tried installing XYplorer on my computer (solely to deal with
this issue). The program crashed.
On Saturday, March 17, 2007 10:13 AM Keith Miller MVP wrote:
Finally found out the way:
In the Search box, type:
name:~"*(2)*"
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