One of the most powerful file search engines compressed into a one-liner.įor example, this line would search the current path for all items modified on a weekend: The stuff is returned in a format ready for further automated processing. QuickSearch lets you quickly collect specific stuff from the most remote corners of your file system by means of simple scripts that can be stored and shared. It works 100% identical to GUI Quick Search apart from not affecting the GUI: The search results are returned by the function in a string. QuickSearch is probably the most powerful and useful of all scripting commands. The new QuickSearch function connects scripting with XYplorer’s

See Help file for details (look under 'Access Control'). It’s not shown anywhere in XYplorer’s GUI. The pattern list is not shown in the tooltip of the 'Ghost Filter' toolbar button. The icon has a tooltip telling you more about the currently hidden items. It signals that items in the current list are hidden by Ghost Filter. Note that small ghost icon in the status bar of the last shot (zoomed version). Ghost Filter ON: no more 'desktop.ini' and 'Thumbs.db' files. Toggle it by pressing the Ghost Filter toolbar button: Now here is what difference the Ghost Filter makes. and enter the following patterns: 'desktop.ini' and 'Thumbs.db' (with the quotes to force an exact match - see Help for details). Select View | Show Items | Edit Ghost Filter. Let’s hide all 'desktop.ini' and 'Thumbs.db' files. Press the Ghost Filter toolbar button (if you don’t see it add it to your toolbar via Tools | Customize Toolbar) to activate the filter.

The factory default setting for the Ghost Filter will hide all items beginning with a dot. Stuff you don’t want to see just now for whatever reason. the stuff you almost never want to see anywhere, like thoseĭesktop.ini and Thumbs.db files, or items beginning with a dot. The Ghost Filter lets you globally hide particular files andįolders.

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