Total Commander

My suggestion is simple, to add option as topic say:

-Exclude directory from search

This is very useful when you have a lot of files on hard drive and you want to exclude them from search. I have directory (Photos) with a lot of images in it but I want to search some other things on hard drive not mostly DSC_xxxx.jpg files. Excluding that directory search will be just 5x or more faster than normal.
And under alt+F7 search options you can just add one check box: search excluded directories also

This is my suggestion

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TC help wrote:Examples:

*.ini | windows\ finds all ini files except those in directories called "Windows" and their subdirs.

*.htm? | _vti*\ finds all html files, except in subdirs starting with _vti (used by Frontpage)

windows\ system32\ *.ini finds ini files only in windows\ and system32 dirs

See also.

Yes but I want to exclude some directories from search forever, like ignore list which is already in TC options.
I don't want to type 20x ./_* for every search I want to make or going to .ini file to change something before I search.

You may set search options and save template and then load it using internal command LOADSEARCH via a buttonbar button. You may even create a em-command that will load your template and assign a shortcut for it (even default Alt+F7).

I was just searching for the same thing.
I would also like for ignore list to be separated for display and search.
I just want to have ignore list for search, but not to hide that folder because I want to see that folder. In my case I want to exclude .svn and .hg folders from search, folders under source control, but I don't want them to be hidden because they are also indicators that folder is under source control.

Hi, How to search the all the files include the zip file (the TC will auto unzip it), while searching exclude some file extension, i.e. *.ini files. Can some one help?

If you need to find all files except *.ini in directories and archives, just search for something like *.* | *.ini and enable searching in archives.

Let me explain what I want I need to do. I want to search a folder including the Zip files inside the folder (The TC will unzip them automatically). For all *.p files, I want to search for a particular string in the text file and list all the P files. I try to use the TC.ext plug in to match the P file but this will eliminated the zip extension also. How can I "include" a particular file types and exclude all other file ext types?

Thank you,
Stanly