Tag Searching

Trying out using tags for file management. Don't want to use other programs if I can avoid it. Using Dopus to add metadata and using the search boxes is good enough for me. But I ran into some problems. Read some other posts but I'm still unsure.

  • With the 'Windows Search' in the search box, it told me that it isn't indexed.
    Not Indexed

But it is indexed. I checked recently, and my entire C: drive is indexed by Windows. ?

  • I wonder how I will be able to sort results by tag.
    Files and folders will have multiple tags, so searching for tags will populate all the tags connected to those items, but all in the same column. So I have no way of dividing the filter by the individual tags, except for making dynamic columns for each tag, and the column only appears when there are tags to be shown. ? Is there a way to filter the tags column by tags, but only have the one tags column?

This is a bad example, but pretend there are lots of files and tags.
Currently it's filtered by name. But what if I wanted to click on the Tags column and all the files would be divided and sorted by their tags? Could be alphabetical order, or... ?

Tags

  • If the search box can search by tag using the colon : , then I figured that I can try to search other things too. Can it search any column type? Using columns as a kind of tagging system, that will fetch items within any of the child folders. ?

Group

What happens when you search using File Explorer?

Seems to work fine. I put in a query into the search box and it shows me what I searched for, without any error pop ups.

Maybe Listary is interfering. It does have a section that shows an index. Don't know if it built its own index or piggybacks either Everything's index or Windows' index.

Indexed

Integration

It is 'integrated' with Dopus, but I have 'type directly to search' disabled.
I'm avoiding fiddling with it too much. Don't want it to start rebuilding a quarter million files, if I can avoid it.

Or it could have been this option in the Windows File Explorer options:
System Index

There may have been some hidden system files at the time I searched that I didn't notice (I had that option enabled = "don't use the index" at the time). So that might have caused Dopus to bug out, translating the issue into a "not indexed" error message.

Either way, I've been doing multiple different types of searches and haven't had the problem since. (I do have that option unchecked now.)