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I'm attempting to search part of a filename in windows explorer, but unless the part of the name I search for is at the very beginning or is separated by spaces or underscores, it fails to match. For example, a file named HelloWorld.java will match a search of hello, but not world. *world fails as well.
Is there a native solution to this?
Drazen Bjelovuk
Posted 2014-06-29T00:46:38.223
Reputation: 467
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Using this keyword and searching for "world": name:~=world will do the trick.
For more advanced search tips:
cody.codes
Posted 2014-06-29T00:46:38.223
Reputation: 1 172
6Awesome, that did the trick! name:~=world also works. – Drazen Bjelovuk – 2014-06-29T01:04:51.410
My fingers thank you for checking that name:~= also works. – cody.codes – 2014-06-29T01:07:56.687
1You rock - I was stuck on this myself and being late on a Saturday was getting ticked off. I rarely use windows search but have to in this case. – David Sterling – 2016-08-06T20:08:53.530
Is there a way to not have the search happening incrementally? – Anders Lindén – 2016-09-12T10:57:37.957
filename:*world also works (Windows7) – The Quark – 2019-07-12T12:51:16.813
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*world*, the extension is part of what it runs the match against.
With name: you can use ~~world.
Jason C
Posted 2014-06-29T00:46:38.223
Reputation: 8 273
That doesn't seem to work with the name: prefix. – Drazen Bjelovuk – 2014-06-29T00:53:56.543
2@Josh What about ~~world? – Jason C – 2014-06-29T01:01:29.707
2name:~~world as well as name:~=world both seem to work. Thanks Jason. – Drazen Bjelovuk – 2014-06-29T01:15:02.517
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Try a simple wildcard search * So your search would be *world
Wildcard search should pull up any partial matches however won't highlight the result in the file name. A lot simpler than typing out the other searches...
bert
Posted 2014-06-29T00:46:38.223
Reputation: 11
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I found that (name:~='your name') and (name:~= 'your name') and (filename:* 'your name') would not work form me
BUT I stored file by NUMERALS
However (* your numerical) does- Even for a part match
i.e. file = 123456789 Search (*5678) does the job
Hope this helps
Warren Bolton
Posted 2014-06-29T00:46:38.223
Reputation: 1
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This did the trick for me (search for all files that contain the word 'subaru' and 'v2' in the file name : - System.FileName:~=(subaruv2)
Other example (search for all files that contain the word 'subaru' with the extension '.html' : - System.FileName:~=(subaru.html)
Martin Desaulniers
Posted 2014-06-29T00:46:38.223
Reputation: 1
Add (*) asterisque symbol before and in between word and at end to match the "contain" search – Martin Desaulniers – 2019-09-09T12:35:00.913
possible duplicate of Windows 7 Search Part of Filename
– Jason C – 2014-06-29T00:55:52.943