[Solved] Can search results display only file names?

[alphonse68]

Hello,
Is there a way to make the Search results not display the path... by means of an option or a toggle/checkbox somewhere?

If it happens to not be possible, I hope you find this useful and maybe it could be a new feature: to be able to select whether to display full paths and file names or just the file names when we click Feed to Listbox. The feature already exists, but only--afaIk--to copy the path &/or file names to the clipboard or to a file.

[I, the OP, removed part of the original post so as to not create confusion]

Thank you.
Cheers.

[Horst.Epp]

A realy strange request
If you has misplaced a file then it doesn't make sense at all to get ony the filename in the search results.
That makes no sense as you don't know where the file was placed.

[Dalai]

I'm actually stumped. How do you select the correct file among several files with the same name? The path is the only thing differentiating the files from one another. And before you say "the path is in the status bar", that's true, but do you really want to check every file of the ones that have the same name to find the one you want? I seriously doubt that.

BTW: TC can find files that are listed in a text file, so I suggest to make use of that feature; it's definitely better than having to go back and forth between TC's search results and a separate list.

Regards
Dalai

[solid]

BTW: TC can find files that are listed in a text file, so I suggest to make use of that feature; it's definitely better than having to go back and forth between TC's search results and a separate list.

Damn, didn't know this feature that text file can be used as input for searching.
@pathtofile.txt in the 'Search for'.

Dalai, thx for mentioning it.

[alphonse68]

Hello, Dalai.
Thank you for your comments.

When one does searches using wild cards, the results can be a wide variety of names, not just files with the same name.
When one searches for a specific string or text within files, the results can be an even wider variety of names and extensions.
Since some searches can involve several directories and their subdirectories, the length of the paths can vary by quite a bit, depending, not just on the length of the name of each child directory, but also of how many child directories exist.

Talking about files with the same name, I have met my share of corporate users who are quite capable of creating copies of files each with different modification. Have I had to look at a list of files with the same name and slightly different contents with the wonderful hint, "I don't remember exactly what it says, I just know that it's something like...", and at times they have been looking for a different part of the doc, it's just that that is what they remember it says.

Myself, when I write code, I can save tens of files with the same name but different date & time as part of the name because I am testing something or because I decided or am asked to considerably change something. Again, search in files with the "same" name that I saved some days ago before I made certain changes that I need to undo, until I find the one I need? Yes, often.

Cheers

[tuska]

2alphonse68

Create a Custom columns view - e.g. Name: Standard_view

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Create View mode(s): [See also my signature...]

View mode <default>
Columns view: Full
Sort order: Name

View mode - "Standard_view"
Colums view: # Standard_view (# =No of your "Custom columns view")
Sort Order: Name

Call up View...

1. EDIT: Custom columns view: Manually -> Button with command: cm_SrcCustomView#   (# =No of your "Custom columns view")
2. View mode: Manually -> Button with command: cm_SrcViewModeList Standard_view
3. View mode: Automatically -> Auto Switch Mode: Rule "S: Search result", Set this mode: "Standard_view" (Name of your View Mode)

Option: BUTTON to reset View Mode to <Default>

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cm_SrcViewMode0,cm_SrcAllFiles,cm_50Percent,cm_RereadSource,cm_rereadsource 1

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cm_SrcViewMode0,cm_SrcAllFiles,cm_50Percent,cm_RereadSource,cm_rereadsource 1|View mode <Standard>: cm_SrcViewMode0|Active panel!|-|cm_RereadSource Ctrl+R|-|cm_rereadsource 1 )|cm_rereadsource 2 )|cm_rereadsource 3 ) <as of TC 9.50 --> see: HISTORY.TXT!>

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[petermad]

2Horst.Epp

That makes no sense as you don't know where the file was placed.

2Dalai

How do you select the correct file among several files with the same name?

When Fed to listbox the status bar below the Search result panel shows the file name with full path - at least until one or more files are selected. Same thing for Branch view btw.

2alphonse68
As tuska writes, just use a Custom columns view - then the files will be shown according to that - and the full path is stiull shown in the status bar.

[Dalai]

When Fed to listbox the status bar below the Search result panel shows the file name with full path - at least until one or more files are selected.

I know. Hence my question

do you really want to check every file of the ones that have the same name to find the one you want?

In other words: You have to go through every single file in the search results to find the one you want/need. Sounds like unnecessary and tedious work to me. It would make much more sense to show the path in a dedicated column, so the path is still obvious and can even be sorted by.

Same thing for Branch view btw.

True, but the "results" might be more limited, depending on the search parameters and (depth of the) directory structure, of course.

Regards
Dalai

[alphonse68]

Hello.
Thank you, Tuska, for so generously providing me with a very complete solution. Thank you, Peter, for your advice as well.

I will honestly say that Custom Columns didn't cross my mind simply because I have never used them, and by the looks of it, they provide a much better solution than what I asked about, which only provides what Copy Selected Names to Clipboard does.

Have a great Sunday!
Cheers

[Horst.Epp]

2Horst.Epp

That makes no sense as you don't know where the file was placed.

2Dalai

How do you select the correct file among several files with the same name?

When Fed to listbox the status bar below the Search result panel shows the file name with full path - at least until one or more files are selected. Same thing for Branch view btw.

2alphonse68
As tuska writes, just use a Custom columns view - then the files will be shown according to that - and the full path is stiull shown in the status bar.

The status line display is of no big help as you can't sort by path without having the path on a column.