new feature req: search for words in filenames in any order

[leopoldus]

Say we have a document with a letter to Peter Johnson. Filename is surely letter to Peter Johnson or may be letter to Johnson Peter or may be Peter Johnson, letter or something like this.
It is very difficult now to search for this file, if I do not remember the exact order of words in the name. I have to try search queries letter*Peter*Johnson, then letter*Johnson*Peter, then Peter*Johnson*letter etc.... But it would be nice to have an option like "ignore words order", in this case search query [letter Peter Johnson] will find this file at the first demand. I think this option to make searching by TC much more convenient.

[Sheepdog]

This searchstring :

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*letter* *Peter* *Johnson*

should do the trick. It searches for any file wich contains either one of the three words letter, Peter or and Johnson.
So it will find all of these files:
Johnson Letter.txt
Johnson Peter Letter.txt
Johnson.txt
letter for Johnson.txt
letter for Peter .txt
letter for Peter Johnson.txt
Peter Johnson Letter.txt



If this search finds to many results you may select all hits ( press [Num*] ) and refine your search with 'only search in selected files/directories' checked) - so only the results will be searched.


HTH

sheepdog

[leopoldus]

If this search finds to many results you may select all hits ( press [Num*] ) and refine your search with 'only search in selected files/directories' checked) - so only the results will be searched.

Yes, this is the thing I do mean. You must go through three steps of search - although this option "ignore words order in query" could enable us to do this with one click.

[ghisler(Author)]

TC 6.5 will support this (3 search words with AND) via the new content plugins - with the internal "Name" field. TC 6.5 is now planned for mid December.

[Sheepdog]

You must go through three steps of search -

No. You can already type *letter* *peter* *johnson* as one searchstring and will find all mentioned files in one step. You would need only more steps if you have a lot of files that fit the search string e.g. if the Folder contains hundreds of files "Letter to ....txt". But then you may only search for *peter* *johnson* that will find any file with the word peter or johnson in it.

Or did I miss something?

sheepdog

[leopoldus]

You would need only more steps if you have a lot of files that fit the search string e.g. if the Folder contains hundreds of files "Letter to ....txt"

If you have many folders arranged by addressee names (Peter Johnson, John Peterson, etc), you can't manage to find all *letters*Peter*Johnson* by one step, but you need to make additional outsorting operations.

Hope this new option in TC 6.5 will solve this my old problem.

[Sheepdog]

You would need only more steps if you have a lot of files that fit the search string e.g. if the Folder contains hundreds of files "Letter to ....txt"

If you have many folders arranged by addressee names (Peter Johnson, John Peterson, etc), you can't manage to find all *letters*Peter*Johnson* by one step, but you need to make additional outsorting operations.

Hope this new option in TC 6.5 will solve this my old problem.

You are right. My thoughts were more theoretical because I don't use to write so many letters.

Hope the new version will ft your desires.

kind regards

sheepdog