Search the same folders in Find Panel

[Leo]

@simitar

I played a bit around by experimenting some commands and arguments and wondering if there is a command or argument that not just include folder in find but also exclude folders from a possible long chain of folders.

Excluding folders has to be done using a filter (Advanced mode). This explains how it works:

How to filter items by location or sub-folder

Update/Note: Since this guide was written, the ability to filter by Full Path was added. You can now apply wildcards and regexps to each file's full path in one line. This is sometimes easier than separately testing the filename and the parent folde…

You could save what you want as a named filter, with the extra fields/conditions you want to modify each time included as well, so you can just type the parts that change into it.

A command like this will load your filter into the Find panel and set the search paths:

Find NOAUTORUN FILTER NAME="Your Filter Name" IN "C:\abc" "D:\xyz"

(If you don't want to type anything or change what you're searching for each time, and want to repeat the same search fully automated, without even opening the Find panel, remove the NOAUTORUN argument and it'll do that.)

You can create and save the filter itself within the Find panel's Advanced tab, or via Preferences / File Operations / Filters. (Using the Find panel is easier, since you can try it out right there.)

(Making it easier to exclude paths without using filters might happen in the future, FWIW.)