Apologies but maybe someone on this list can help me: I need to search regularly in Windows 7 Explorer for files where the file name is not 6 characters (actually numerics) followed by an underscore then a “B” and the extension and exclude all sub-folder names.
If I paste: FILENAME NOT ??????_B.JPG NOT kind:folders into the search box I get the results I want. I then click on the [Save search] button and give the search a name: CheckFileNames. However every time I click on the filename in the Searches folders under my login I get: No items match your search. The files I want to find usually have an additional character after the B but I would also like to find files where there are not precisely 6 digits preceding the underscore. (I have discovered in trying to solve this that the 6 question marks don’t seem to actually do anything and can be omitted.) I have tried various attempts at escaping the 6 question marks to no avail. I know that I can use R:Base to do this but that seems like using an exquisite sledgehammer to crack an ugly nut and it was the fact that the saved search didn’t work that got me trying to find out why that failed rather than not getting the results. If anybody has any knowledge I’d be very grateful, Regards, Alastair.
