If I use the quicksearch field (or F3), the results are displayed in the current lister. I can then go back and forward to go back to the search results.
But if I click on a result and then go "back" it doesn't take me back to the search results, instead it takes me back to the folder from which I started the search.
EDIT: I think the search results should be consistently treated as an entry in the history I can go forward from and back to from any place in my browsing.
The standard Back button/action should not be affected by which files are selected in the file display, and isn't here.
Perhaps I am not understanding this, though:
But if I click on a result and then go "back" it doesn't take me back to the search results, instead it takes me back to the folder from which I started the search.
If you click on a result, you must already be viewing the results, no? Do you mean double-clicking a folder within the results or something else?
For the action you are performing, what is the command it is set to run in your configuration?
For example, if you are clicking the Back button on the file display toolbar, editing it should show it runs this, if you have the current default toolbars:
Go BACK USEQUALKEYS
I meant "if I double-click on a folder in the search results to enter it" and then go back.
Ah ok, that makes sense now.
By default, the Windows Search results are turned into an automatically generated collection below the folder you searched in the folder tree. Those auto-generated collections are temporary and are automatically destroyed once you leave the results (unless you go back to the parent folder, as a special case, so you can flick between parent and its results). If they stayed around they'd start to clutter up the tree quite quickly.
But you can explicitly send the results to a named collection which will then stay around forever until you explicitly delete the collection, if you want to keep them beyond the automatic lifetime.
(Using the Find Files panel is another alternative, since that always outputs to a persistent collection, e.g. Find Results. The collection name can be changed for each find you do, but it's something you change manually and it does't automatically cause an addition collection to be generated for every folder you search. Instead, it either overwrites or adds to the previous results, unless you explicitly ask it to save to a new set of results by changing the collection name.)
Hi Leo, how do you send the results to a named collection? Right clicking on the "Search Results for E:" tab does not have an option to save as a collection. I am facing similar issue to the poster at the top - such that when I double click on a Folder from the search result and then clicking the "Back" arrow, it doesn't bring me back to the search result but to the parent folder.
Right-click the background of the file display and choose New Stored Query.
Or right-click the search results (current folder) in the folder tree or the breadcrumb for them on the location bar.
Right-clicking the folder tab normally only gives you tab-related options, unless you turn on Preferences / Folder Tabs / Options / Treat tab label as folder when dragged or right-clicked and are careful to click the label and not the icon (but that isn't usually recommended, as it makes accessing the tab-related menu harder, and there are lots of other ways to access the current folder's menu).