TC 10 doesn't find my folders

[BlackMatrix]

I have TC 10 installed.

I search for:

^packages$

with Regex tick.

I tick

attributes

and untick all except

Directory

.

Image: https://i.ibb.co/71JK59X/tc.png

I search in D: (HDD)

The result page finds:

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D:\FileHistory\...\...\AppData\Local\Packages

But it does not find

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D:\Backup\...\...\packages

Any idea?

[white]

Those are 3 state checkboxes where clear means the attribute must be absent, checked means the attribute must be present and the indeterminate state means the attribute is ignored. The indeterminate state may look like a blue box with a white minus sign which may be confusing.

[Dalai]

NB: It's even simpler to use

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packages.

in the "Search for" field without RegEx. As soon as the search term contains a dot, TC will search for exact matches (instead of doing a glob search).

Regards
Dalai

[BlackMatrix]

Thank you both so much for your help

[BlackMatrix]

NB: It's even simpler to use

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packages.

in the "Search for" field without RegEx. As soon as the search term contains a dot, TC will search for exact matches (instead of doing a glob search).

Regards
Dalai

How to search for folders that start with a dot e.g. '.nuget'?

[Dalai]

You mean a glob search for directories containing a dot? In this case you have to tell TC that you want a glob matching by adding the wildcard(s) yourself:

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.nuget*

Regards
Dalai

[BlackMatrix]

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.nuget*

I mean an exact match of '.nuget' as a directory. It seems to me that the exact search is much faster than a wildcard/Regex search. The 'packages.' worked quite well for exact 'packages' matches but '.nuget' contains a dot already in the name.

[Dalai]

An exact match of

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.nuget

works just like that. Or isn't this the case for you?

Regards
Dalai

[BlackMatrix]

Ah okay, I got it. I thought '.' is a specific marker to tell TC that the search term has to be exact search. I read it wrong. Thanks again for your help

[Dalai]

No, it's a normal character. The trailing dot

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packages.

is just a "trick" to make TC search for an exact match. Files and directory names can't have a trailing dot in their names.

Regards
Dalai

[NotNull]

Files and directory names can't have a trailing dot in their names.

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T:\dots>md "\\?\t:\dots\folder_with_dot."

T:\dots>set dummy=>"\\?\t:\dots\file_with_dot."

T:\dots>dir
 Volume in drive T is RAMDISK
 Volume Serial Number is 6898-80AC

 Directory of T:\dots

25/06/2023  22:45    <DIR>          .
25/06/2023  22:45                 0 file_with_dot.
25/06/2023  22:45    <DIR>          folder_with_dot.
               1 File(s)              0 bytes
               2 Dir(s)     589.553.664 bytes free

T:\dots>

[Dalai]

Well, I was referring to the regular creation of files and directories, not the long path prefix.