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Old December 9th, 2020, 03:51 AM
rjh213 rjh213 is offline
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Windows 10 Search

I will try and explain my problem again.

On Windows 10:

I bring up File Explorer.

In the very first column, I click on my external drive, so now near the top of the File Explorer window, on the left, it shows:

This PC > Pictures Backup (F: )

and on the far right there is a box that shows:

Search Pictures Backup

In that search box I put Europe, click the right arrow to start a search, and I get a message that says:

“No items match your search”.

I get that with Europe, Europe*, or *Europe*.

On Windows XP:

I click Start - Search

On the lower left I click “Click here to start search companion”. I select

“Pictures, music or video” and enter

Europe

Then I click on advanced features and select the external drive, click search, and it finds multiple files with the word Europe in the title, which is what I was looking for.

For example, it found a folder called "2007 Vacation Europe".

On a side note, I received a message on XP that the drive was not indexed, but that didn’t stop it from doing what I asked it to do, which was search the drive for files. I’ve never had to index a drive. I don’t know how to do it.
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