search current folder

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Tech198 Author

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search current folder

How can i get this to work ?

Spotlight has indexed the drive (USB) as when i search for anything, it finds it...

However i only wish to search "current folder" only, not sub folders..

After changing this, must i re-index ? or does this "searching current folder" only work on internal drive only?

When I'm searching in Finder, for instance .zip, or even Kind:zip. just drill down to what i want, but it still shows in all other sub-folders as well.

Changing colums by "Date added" doesn't help. in insome cases are maked with a "-" in spotlight search,, so i cannot do filter.

Posted on Nov 3, 2019 1:57 AM

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Barney-15E

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Nov 3, 2019 4:36 AM in response to Tech198

Search current folder is where it starts. There is no way to restrict the depth.

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VikingOSX

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Nov 3, 2019 5:29 AM in response to Tech198

Let's say I have a .webarchive file located in this location: ~/Desktop/Test/Jazz/Vol.233 - test1.webarchive. To isolate this particular file in Spotlight:

(kind:Folder AND name:Jazz) OR name:Vol.233

The top document hit is the specific .webarchive in the Jazz folder. If I offer this Spotlight search in the Finder window's search for field, it shows the current location as "Desktop", and displays the Jazz folder, and the specific Vol.233 - Test1.webarchive file.

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