File Explorer has (as we all know) a search box in the top right, ofcourse we can enter some text and File Explorer will search for filenames with that text and text within files, but there are more options to tailor our search.<\/p>\n
See Common File Kinds<\/a>.<\/p>\n Let’s look at some examples<\/p>\n File name search<\/strong><\/p>\n If we prefix our search term with file:<\/em> like this<\/p>\n Then we only get search results for all files with the text as part of the filename or file extension.<\/p>\n File content search<\/strong><\/p>\n If we prefix our search term with content:<\/em> like this<\/p>\n Then we only get search results from within files (i.e. text search).<\/p>\n Kind<\/strong><\/p>\n We can use the kind<\/em> option along with file type, such as text<\/em>, music<\/em> etc. See Common File Kinds<\/a>.<\/p>\n The above list all text files.<\/p>\n Other file options<\/strong><\/p>\n We can also use the following, other file options, for example finding <\/p>\n The first two options are the same and list files modified last week. The size option lists files with a size larger than 500 bytes. <\/p>\n See also File Kind: Everything<\/a>.<\/p>\n\r\nfile: MyFile\r\nfile:.sln\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\ncontent: SomeContent\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\nkind:text\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\ndatemodified:lastweek\r\nmodified:lastweek\r\nmodified:05\/10\/2022\r\nsize:>500\r\n<\/pre>\n