Computer: Searching
Search focus on the fly   (+1, -2)  [vote for, against]
Suggest better focus for your file or text search on the fly

While searching the PC - if its a time consuming search: you see it going thru these directories alphabetically, then you suddenly have an idea, that it could be under one of these two directories.

Press the SUGGEST button.

It opens a dialog with:
Reduce search to file types of: ___
Start with these directories: [Folder chooser] (if they were already started theyll be gray)
Additional text: [original text here, you cannot delete it]

Choose the directories to start with and add them. The search skips to those directories and then continues what it was doing.
-- pashute, Aug 08 2010

There's the PATH environment variable that already does this for executables, so I don't see why something analogous shouldn't work for documents.
-- zen_tom, Aug 08 2010


find me on flickr, I like to focus on a fly.
-- po, Aug 08 2010



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