When using the simple query I'm not getting any results. I know for sure at the location there are files that should match.
Find HERE RECURSE QUERYENGINE=windows SHOWRESULTS dest,newtab QUERY FILTERDEF attr match on a
Is it because I have to include 'contents' in the Windows 10 index?
I thought "contents" means the actual text that's in a file.
Try Windows Search syntax for your query.
Ya, tags aren't supported by AQS, that's my fault.
So I can't use any of the Dopus Find tools with tags; avoiding the permanent file collections I don't want being shoved down my throat.
So plan B, I've been trying to just duplicate the tab in the destination side, set flat view, then filter it. Kind of the same thing as using the Find tool, I think. It doesn't seem to want to keep the focus on the new tab so that I can invoke the flat view.
Just trying to do the most basic recursive filtering in a new tab. This is what I got right now and it won't work. Do you know what to do?
Go TABDUPLICATE=dual
Set FOCUS=dest,Right
Set FLATVIEW=Mixed
Select FILTERDEF Tags match BUSN
Select HIDEUNSEL NOPATTERN
Select NONE
Yes, you can, for example, using this.
What isn’t clear to me is whether you plan to do something with the results afterward or just 'view' them in the filedisplay. Because your Find instruction uses RECURSE, it might return items that aren’t visible, so you wouldn’t be able to select them.
A quick filter is also an option:
Set QUICKFILTERFLAGS=evalon,regexpoff,flatviewoff,ignorediacriticsoff,anywordoff,partialoff QUICKFILTER="keywords==""BUSN"""
I'm going to have to look at that script.
The yellow buttons are all going to be "Find". I just haven't figured out how yet.
This blue button menu is "Tag Select".
Do I want to select stuff? No, I'm just trying to filter (hide unselected) but drill into the subfolders.
And avoid using the Find tool in my filter array.
I started building a tag printer.
The idea is to select the menu per category that I want on the files, and at the last menu it will print my choices to the files.
I just did the math and because of all the possible combinations I would have to create 7.2 million buttons. 
Yup I think that I just changed my mind about this.
That's interesting. No idea how you did that, so I'll have to check it out.
You can't filter items that aren't visible. Also, if I'm not mistaken, you wouldn't be able to filter nested elements if their parent doesn't match the filter. That's why collections are so useful— even with lxp command, you'd run into that problem.
Besides, wouldn't something more visual be better in your case?
You can see that unlike the current posted version, this one can autoupdate its content in real time.
I haven't had the time or motivation to finish it, but I'd say it's about 95% done. Just whistle if you want to take a look.
Wow, that Ultra Filter looks sweet. 
I'll wait until it's done before checking it out. For now just wanted to know how to duplicate in new tab, destination, flat mode, query =.
Since my tags are static think I will just stick with the Find tool (for AQS unsupported metadata) after all. Make a bunch of subfolders in the collections, as my tag groups.
See that my tag groups are also individual eval columns, so that I can sort by tag.
With one click I just sorted the files in this folder by priority.
Sadly the Dopus Group feature doesn't recognize they are different just by the number in the name. Same issue I'm trying to figure out with my "select by sequence" question.
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The problem now is setting tags. One by one is brutal.
My menu diving to add one tag at a time is even worse than typing them out in the metadata pane.
So when I made a selection in my tag printer it would clear the tags then print the whole string, like this:
SetAttr META tags:""
SetAttr META Tags:"+BUSN; COMM; IMAG; CHRS; ASUN; FILE; BACK; ARCH"
There can't be presets saved for this because each file is slightly different than the next.
Which is also why tags are so useful.
If your Ultra Filter can be converted into setting tags, that would be the perfect tag printer.
Have it on top, on the side, like a pane. (Actually a docked pane would be ideal, like the metadata pane). With it running, make file and folder selections. Then click on the tag checkboxes, within their tag group sections. Click set, it would add all those tags, removing any conflicts within their respective groups. Could have prev/next file buttons, clear metadata button, open metadata dialog button.
Could have presets too, for some common files, maybe. Could even have up/down arrows for Version etc. Go prev/next in the list. "Next" on Version 2 is now Version 3. Could have set user description on there etc.
Since I can't use a QUERY for tags cause Microsoft doesn't know what tags are apparently, guess I have to use the Dopus thing that can't search for something without creating a permanent file collection cause reasons.
So I can't move "found" collections into their own folders. I can only "copy" them.
You can see "Tags BUSN" and "Tags COMP" are duplicated by my attempt at some basic folder organization. So with seventy plus tags, I'm just supposed to have my file collections in one huge long list, instead of a branching folder tree? (You know, the thing that pane was named after. Which Jon made fun of me for, for asking for files in there).
One long hideous list; kind of like the Find tool presets.
Where the "categories" don't auto collapse (and instead they will auto-open themselves, cause reasons) and it's just one long unending frikkin list, like it's a social media feed or something. In a program with the literal word DIRECTORY in it you can't use directories with its own proprietary Find tool and resulting collections.
Which are "collections", not "saved queries". The Find tool runs a QUERY and then doesn't produce a SAVED QUERY (Not that it should be saved anyway, without the user first SAVING IT!).
It produces a static collection. Which can't update itself when you go back into the folder. It can only be overwritten when you run that Find preset again. You know, the thing that a saved query can do.
You would think the tool that exists to run queries would be able to redo the queries when you go into the folders it generated by running the thing it was designed to do.
Why does it matter? Oh you tell me. Have a look at the fact that I now have TWO Tag - BUSN folders because I can't move them I can only copy them. So which of those two static folders did the new search "clear" ?
Yup, neither of them! I just changed the tags, ran the same preset again and NOTHING CHANGED cause reasons.
You would think when I "change" the icon, that the icon would change?
Nope! It has to be Windows ICONS. Everywhere else you can use pictures but not this one, cause it's a special super duper folder.
You think when I have "Parent Location" in the 'Find Results' folder format that I can get that column in... the folder format?
Nope! Of course not. Nowhere to be found!
Why? Because "This Lister came from: DDE newtab @#$%^&@#$%^&(&*@#$%^&!" that's why. Makes sense, right?
Why is my flat view mode stuck on when in a file collection? Nobody knows. ¯(°_o)/¯
What's the difference between delete and delete all? NOBODY KNOWS ¯(°_o)/¯
Apparently I can "copy" a find result into another folder and then delete out the original.
Ok, but when running that same search again, it just makes a brand new collection.
Yikes.
If I'm forced to have a permanent file collection for every single search, why can't I at least decide the location of it? And to replace any existing collections that have the same name in the same folder? Why doesn't the Find tool collections have the same options as the stored queries?
Why do I have to have a brand new collection for the same exact search, using the same preset?
What is the point of this? Why did you do everything in your power to make this Find tool impossible to use?
The search results don't go to a brand new collection every time by default. There's one collection called Find Results that is reused over and over and over again. By default.
Why did you do everything in your power to not use it how it was designed?
Only if you keep the result in the same default place. See my picture. I just watched it create a duplicate collection and you're telling me it doesn't. So now I have two more permanent file collections than I want to have.
I have like a hundred tags. The tag find presets alone would fill up my entire folder tree. The most recent issue is why can't I decide on the location of this "file collection".
Why do I not use it how it was designed? Because of how it was designed.
To launch an app do you seriously click on the windows start menu and start typing the name of the app you want, instead of having a button on your taskbar for it?
If you change the name of the collection you get - shock, horror - a different collection. Leave the name the same and you get - quelle surprise - the same collection.
When did I change the name of the collection?
When I move it away from its mandatory landing zone on the File Collections parent, I also just broke its ability for the preset that generated it to refresh. I'm not even sure that you guys intended for us to move these collections, as it seems to only have a copy, not a move command. Holding Ctrl to move it to my sub collection.
