How to exclude certain (sub)directories or file patterns from search?
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Assume I want to search in the whole partition D:\ for a pattern foobar
However I want to exclude all subdirectories which contain "temp" or "tmp"
and excldue all files which contain ".log"
How can I tell this to Locate32?
I did not found an "exclude dirs" and no "exclude files" entry fields
Last edit: Thomas 2018-02-05
This is possible as such. Howevre, if you want permanently exclude those files, you exclude those files from the database and those will not appear. There are those fields in settings of each database (behind Advanced button).
Hmm, I don't want to exclude them permanently - just for a the current single search.
You said: "This is possible as such".
HOW is this possible??
Again: I miss an entry field "exclude dirs"
Sorry, I meant to say that it's not possible as such.
Alternative might be using logical operations + and -. You should have "Allow logical operations (...)" option enabled in Advanced setting. Then you can exclude log files by adding "Name:" field: -#.log (Replace # with asterisk, this forum does not allow asterisk properly)
Directies can be excluded similarly, e.g. typing -D:\ to "Look In:"