Do I just have the search syntax wrong?

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So I have a network drive that has numerous amounts of data to search though. (It's Table Top Role Playing Game stuff). What I'm trying to do is, search all picture formats, from a computer that is on the network, but not the host pc that the network drive is connected to, using this syntax:

Ext: .png OR Ext: .jpg OR Ext: .jpeg OR Ext: .gif OR Ext: .tiff OR Ext: .psd OR Ext: .bmp

And it finds a lot of stuff. I think I clocked it in at 126,209. However, neither File Explorer or Opus is digging down in the subfolder structure as I would have expected it to.

Example: Root is called Assets. That's what I put the search in.

However, when I QA'd this search to see if it really is finding everything I picked a random folder.

Assets\Subfolder 1\Sub-Subfolder 1\Sub-Sub-Subfolder 1\Sub-Sub-Sub-Subfolder 1\random.jpg file doesn't appear in the larger 126,209 count of images. Which tells me that the search query I'm using it's going down far enough. See attached picture.

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Windows Search syntax is documented here but Microsoft's documentation is not very thorough (and they also keep changing things without documenting the differences).

If you want to do anything complicated, I would use Opus's Tools > Find Files instead, which is more straightforward. The Advanced mode lets you create multi-part queries using a UI, but the search you're doing could also be done in Simple mode with this wildcard:

*.(png|jpg|jpeg|gif|tiff|psd|bmp)

Or you could match by file type group = Images, which is easier. (But note that the Images group contains TIF but not TIFF by default, so you'd need to add the missing extension via Settings > File Types.)

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Thank you so much leo, if this works I'm buying opus forever :smiley: this has been driving me up the wall for months as I try to make maps for my d&d games. I kept finding more and more, and redoing old art. I was about to start manually going in and destroying the file folder structure just to have everything in the same folder as I was getting so frustrated.

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Perfect, dang near 2.5 times as many result. Thank you!

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