When searching for files using the Find window it always seems to default to listing the results alphabetically by Name. Normally this would be fine but I'm repeatedly running searches from within the same Find window and I'd prefer to have it ordered by Modified date. I can make this change but if I then perform other searches from this window it swaps back to sorting by Title.
eg
I open the Find window, enter a couple of parameters and click Find.
The results display, sorted alphabetically by Title.
I click the Modified column and the results are sorted by date modified.
....
Having done what I've needed with those results I then change the search parameters and hit Find again.
The new results are displayed but it defaults back to sorting alphabetically by Title rather than leaving things as they were (sorted by Modified date).
Strangely the results pane still has a sort order arrow against the Modified column even though it's no longer sorting by that column, as you can see below:
IMO it's also worth using the Find panel instead of the Find window, as it's much nicer all-round. (Tools -> Find Panel, if you haven't noticed it before.)
The Find Panel doesn't sort at all during the find operation; files are just added to the bottom of the list as they are found. You can sort it manually at any time by clicking the header.
[quote="leo"]It's worth
IMO it's also worth using the Find panel instead of the Find window, as it's much nicer all-round. (Tools -> Find Panel, if you haven't noticed it before.)[/quote]
To be honest I didn't realise that the panel was any different to the window. I always used the window as it was bigger!
Thanks for pointing that out Jon. I guess my results just naturally came up alphabetically and I assumed it was sorting them as such.
[quote="leo"]It's worth
IMO it's also worth using the Find panel instead of the Find window, as it's much nicer all-round. (Tools -> Find Panel, if you haven't noticed it before.)[/quote]
Is there anyway to make the Find Panel the default search option rather than the Find Window?
For instance, if I right-click a folder and select 'Search' it opens the Find Window rather than the Panel.
I assume it could be done using "Set UTILITY=Find" but I can't work out where to edit the Search option listed in the context menu...
[quote="leo"]... IMO it's also worth using the Find panel instead of the Find window, as it's much nicer all-round. (Tools -> Find Panel, if you haven't noticed it before.)[/quote]Hello Leo...
I've just compared the two to try to work out why one is better than the other. I understand the Find window is the older tool, and there must be a reason for re-inventing this particular wheel. One thing I quite like about the Find window is that it lets me direct results to the Output Window, which does not seem to be possible with the Panel.
It lets you send results to the same lister the panel is attached to, so you get everything in a single window and you get the results in a collection which is displayed in a lister, which is far more powerful than the Output Window.
Opus 6 didn't have collections or the Find panel, so all searches were done using the Find window and the results ended up in either the Find window's list or the Output Window, both of which were very "cut-down" from what is provided by a real file display (lister) in Opus. People rightly pointed out that it would be better to have the results in a proper lister, like any other folder, and so collections were born.
Being able to use all your toolbar buttons, hotkeys, view modes, styles, etc. on the Find results is surely a useful thing.
