Expandable Folders

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Two things I would like to see with expanded folders that I don't believe is a feature.

  1. Expand multiple selected folders, rather than expanding each one separate.
  2. FAYT - When the folders are expanded, the FYAT will not search through those folders only the main folders that were expanded.

This is useful to me for example when having a list of music or picture folders (Rock, Country, etc.) and you only want to view a few folders and search for example ACDC.

2

There's a command in the Folder menu to expand all folders at once (each click expands one more level than currently expanded).

It already seems to include the child items. Or do you mean you want it to exclude the folders themselves or something else?

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great thank you

4

The hotkey Alt+Down does that already. If you want to be able to do it using the mouse, you could add a toolbar button or context menu to run Go EXPANDBRANCH.

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It does not work for me.

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That's the Filter Bar (filtering), not FAYT (finding).

I think we have plans to improve how filtering interacts with subfolders, but at the moment if a filter doesn't match a folder, that folder is hidden, including everything under it.

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Filtering within all folders with Flat View is possible now with this code in a button: SearchFolders IN {sourcepath} FOLDERS EVERYTHING SEP=; PATTERN {dlgstring|Find Items in the Source (Everything)\n\nSearch Text:}

Using the excellent script by Errante.

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@Simplie FWIW, in the latest beta of this command (1.4.9 beta 3) I have greatly improved the filtering with nested items (both by expanded folders and by grouped flat view). You can try it and see if it is what you need.