Is it possible to filter by label from the quick filter bar (when you press the * key)? I’d like to filter my files using label filters and normal labels.
Also does the advanced find panel work with label filters? I could only get it to work with normal labels?
I’m using the DO 12 beta BTW.
Thanks
I’ve just discovered the filters setting under preferences, something I’ve never noticed before. What’s the benefit of using these “normal” filters over a label filter? It appears normal and label filters can both filter using the same criteria so the only difference is one can have a label and the other can’t?
Why not just have label filters and make them accessible in all the places normal filters are currently accessible from?
I don't think the quick filter can match labels. You could probably make toolbar buttons that filter by label.
Find/Advance should work with label filters from 12.0.5 onward.
Filters in Preferences can be used for various things. Find, Select, etc.
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Find/Advance should work with label filters from 12.0.5 onward.
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I’m running 12.0.9 and find->advanced isn’t finding my label filters.
If I search for a normal label like “blue” it picks them up, but if I use a label filter like “mark recently modified files” it doesn’t find them even though I can see some of the files highlighted with this label in the current folder I’m searching in.
Strange. My label filter is basically the same but highlights files that have been modified in the last 24hrs.
You can see the file highlighted in brown on the left to show the label applied but it doesn't appear in the search results on the right.
It's because of the brackets in the label name. The label field was given wildcard support in a recent beta, and the brackets are wildcard characters which need escaping by putting a ' before them.
We'll make it so the drop-down menu automatically inserts the escape characters if they're needed for a label name selected via the menu.
How can i do this?
I created a filter in Settings-File Operations-Filters doing
Now i have the filters but i don't know how to use them (and i don't know if they do what i want,i'm just trying)
You can test filters out using Tools > Find Files > Advanced. (You can make them there as well.)
To make a button which runs a particular filter in & below the current directory:
Find FILTER NAME="My Filter Name" RECURSE IN {sourcepath}
(Find command docs, if you want more ways to fine tune what it does.)
Let's suppose the filter is called Fantasy and i have to search only in D:\Video\Film
I ask because i don't know if i have to use " " and i have to test also the sourcepath. Meanwhile i'm tryng
I see that i don't have FILTER NAME but only FILTER so i added manually.
Edit..wow ok i did it with first try.
But searching i get some columns i don't want (attr,type)
Uhm... i made 9 buttons. The first 4 works then they stopped working. i Copied always from the first and just change the warod to search