Hello all,
Perhaps i'm doing something wrong but I have the following question:
Is it possible to use the "Advanced Selection" to select all the items by the filter and automaticly DESELECT all then current selected item(s)? Now I'm often making a mistake (deleting files by advanced filters) that the selected item (prior to CTRL-S) will also be deleted!
Thanks in advance, kind regards,
RIen.
You can add the DESELECTNOMATCH option to the Select command I think.
I had a quick test and it seems to work here as you wish.
mmm, "Select DESELECTNOMATCH" doesn't work by me: it adds the newly selected files to the current selected files. I selected some DOCX files - CTRL S - pattern (wildcards) *.XLSX - now both DOCX and XLSX are selected.
Did you change the command in the hotkey? I tried again and it here it works. o)
Yes, I changed it (see image):
What if you run these (or similar) commands separately in the DO command line?
Select DESELECTNOMATCH *.pdf
Select DESELECTNOMATCH *.doc
Do the selections add up or not? Here, they do not.
Hi tbone,
Yes, that works as expected. But with CTRL-S it refuses to unselect the currect selected items.
If I modify the hotkey with your commands then it works fine! But if I clear everything but "Select DESELECTNOMATCH" is doesn't work anymore.
If you want to deselect everything, then prompt for what to select, you could use:
Select NONE
Select
That's the right one Leo! Thanks a lot!
I can't say why a "Select DESELECTNOMATCH" works for me - even in the hotkey.
Maybe it has something to do with: Preferences / File Operations / Options / Deselect files used in functions
But anyway, Leos variation surely does the trick! o)