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How to search?
Enter one or more search terms (see below Searching of files and Searching of directories). Default mode is OR, add '+' in front of a search term to force AND. Search terms are separated by a space or '+'. If there is only one OR term it is changed to be an AND term because one OR term has no meaning.
Searching is case insensitive, i.e. abc = aBc = ABC
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abc +def ghi = def AND (abc OR ghi)
+abc def +ghi = abc AND def AND ghi
abc def = abc OR def
+*name* *.ext1 *.ext2 *.ext3 = *name* AND (*.ext1 OR *.ext2 OR *.ext3)
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Quoting
You can surround your search term with double quotes ("") if it contains any characters ('+', spaces) that would otherwise modify your query.
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+"This must be found" abc def = "This must be found" AND (abc OR def)
"It's OK" = "It's OK"
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Searching files
Fast File Search is optimized for searching files by a wildcard when there are some normal characters (not '*' or '?') specified in the beginning or in the end of the mask (for example '*.iso')
. Other (i.e. slow) queries can be disabled in configuration.
Wildcard
Files are searched by a file name mask that can contain some of these wildcard characters:
'*' stands for an arbitrary amount of arbitrary characters
'?' stands for a single arbitrary character
For example '*.iso' means: all files whose file name ends with '.iso'
Substring
Files are searched by a part (substring) of their name.
Regular expression
Files are searched by a regular expression. Extended version of regular expressions is used.
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Searching directories
Directories are searched by the same methods like files are. There is no preferred search method for searching directories.
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