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| subject: | Re: Search for file by name |
From: "Ellen K"
In the regular UI?
"Rich" wrote in message news:45b50381$1{at}w3.nls.net...
Yep. The default is to check for substrings. Use "name:=filename.ext"
if you want an exact match.
Rich
"Ellen K." wrote in message
news:hb49r2lv1fbgmmtpguqc80aebifpp551t0{at}4ax.com...
I have experienced entering the exact file name and being presented with a
list that includes all filenames containing any part of what I entered.
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:29:59 -0800, "Rich" wrote in message
:
> With Windows Vista or Windows Desktop Search or something else? The
> Windows search components have no problem searching by name.
>
>Rich
>
> "Robert Comer" wrote in message
> news:45b432c8$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > You have a problem with indexing, not with search.
>
> Actually it's search, it doesn't find what I want, indexed or not. 99%
> of
> the time I'm not looking for a text string, I'm looking for a file name,
> Search has a problem with that.
>
> --
> Bob Comer
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