Searching for Folders

Even though apps get catalogued in folders; I still have a doozy of a time finding the folder I want with 9 pages of stuff; it would be great if spotlight could search for a specific folder name; or is there already a way to do this in search....?

These are user-to-user forums, you are not talking to Apple here and they do not monitor these forums. If you want to leave feedback for Apple then you can do so here : http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Similar Messages

Search for folders?

I know how to search for jpegs or documents by a file name but what about a name of a folder? thanks in advance

If you do a search in Spotlight it should find the names of folders as well as files. You don't mention what version of the operating system you have so I can't tell if you have Spotlight available. The icon would be in your menubar at the top right corner of your screen and it looks like a magnifying glass.
Best of luck.

Spotlight search for folders

hello
i was wondering if there is way, in the finder window, to search for a folder. i mean like if you want a pdf, you type the name, then .pdf ;specifically, I am looking for the Library folder to get at my .plist files. thanks, i hope that makes sense.

From any active Finder window press COMMAND-F to bring up a Spotlight search query or simply enter a search string in the search field in the right side of the Finder's toolbar.
Note that Spotlight will not search system folders unless you configure its search options.

Bridge - Search for folders and view all contents at once?

Say I do a search for "Landscape" and it brings up 25 folders on my hard drive, is there a way to view the contents of all my folders at once?
Thank you,
Benjamin

I have found exactly what I was looking for. And there it is... on AEScripts.com. Color me embarrassed.
For anyone else who's interesed in the answer I found "pt_EffectSearch" by Paul Tuersley.
Marc

Applescript that searches for folders by name

I've set up a bunch of folder action scripts on our Xserve that changes the colour label of folders when they are dropped into specific folder, I use this to help organise which jobs are live and which are finished and ready for backup.
The system works well, but because there is a live work folder and finished work folder for each of our clients and each of these has a folder action attached, our server is taking quite a hammering with System events using huge processor cycles.
Someone kindly came up with the script below for a stay open script that would check the folders every 30 seconds and change the folder labels, which would be perfect, but it only finds "Live Work" and "Finished Work" folders on the desktop, All our Client folders are actually on a xserve RAID, so I need to modify the script so it seaches all of the RAID for folders called "live work" or "finished work" and batch changes the colour label.. any ideas?
property LiveWorkFolder : "Live Work"
property FinishedWorkFolder : "Finished Work"
property NoColor : 0
property Orange : 1
property Red : 2
property Yellow : 3
property Cyan : 4
property Magenta : 5
property Green : 6
property Gray : 7
on idle
tell application "Finder"
repeat with d in folder LiveWorkFolder
set label index of d to Green
end repeat
end tell
tell application "Finder"
repeat with d in folder FinishedWorkFolder
set label index of d to Red
end repeat
end tell
-- rerun this routine for constant surveillance
return -- rerun by default every 30 seconds
-- return 10 -- rerun every 10 seconds
end idle

01. In your original post, you stated:
property LiveWorkFolder : "Live Work"
property FinishedWorkFolder : "Finished Work"
...; however, in your pictorial reply post - you show 'Finished Jobs' and 'Live Jobs'.
Also, as such - i do not know how your code works; since the 'LiveWorkfolder' and 'FinishedWorkFolder' properties, or - else where in your code you, do not supply a complete file path.
02. Via 'Disk Utility' I created a disk image - titled 'RAID'. In 'RAID' I created three (3) folders {All-Clad, ASDA, and Bentley}, which each containing a 'Projects' folder; and each 'Projects' folder containing folders 'Finished Jobs' and 'Live Jobs'. In these last two (2) folders I place some randomly selected files.
The code below (based on my above posted code - which had 'on idle', 'return', and 'end idle' commented out) worked, as expected.
property LiveWorkFolder : "Live Jobs"
property FinishedWorkFolder : "Finished Jobs"
property MasterPath : "RAID" -- The name of the folder, or volume, which contains the folders of the users, whose related folders contain the 'Live Work' and 'Finished Work' folders.
property NoColor : 0
property Orange : 1
property Red : 2
property Yellow : 3
property Cyan : 4
property Magenta : 5
property Green : 6
property Gray : 7
on idle
tell application "Finder"
set liveWorkFolder_List to every folder of entire contents of folder MasterPath whose name contains LiveWorkFolder
set FinishedWorkFolder_List to every folder of entire contents of folder MasterPath whose name contains FinishedWorkFolder
repeat with i in liveWorkFolder_List
set label index of every item in i to Green
end repeat
repeat with i in FinishedWorkFolder_List
set label index of every item in i to Red
end repeat
end tell
-- rerun this routine for constant surveillance
return 30 -- rerun by default every 30 seconds
-- return 10 -- rerun every 10 seconds
end idle
03. At least here (in 'on idle' ... 'end idle' ) ...
return
... by itself, does not imply 'return 30'. Thus, the reason for ...
return 30
... above.
Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Search for folders or file on OS X Mavericks (10.9)

I can't find folder when I make Search with new OS X Mavericks updated? I have 4 Tr HD when am looking for my file I have to make search but now search can't find files?????
I already try this way Mac Basics: Spotlight but isn't working also, I use to do this search 100 time a day before I update my Mac, how I can do it now?
Please attached file.

Normally, Mavericks searches just like any version before. I just tried and mine finds folders just fine. The only thing I could think of is this:
Try going to System Prefrences -> Spotlight and make sure folders are checked there
Also, make sure that you have the correct tab selected at the top - in your screenshot, you are only searching through a single folder. Is that intentional?
If that doesn't work try rebuilding the spotlight index: http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/17/rebuild-spotlight-index/

Error when trying to search for folders within an Exchange server

I am working on an existing application that searches folder within an exchange server in asp.net C#
The code is very basic is like this
FolderView view = new FolderView(int.MaxValue);
view.PropertySet = new PropertySet(BasePropertySet.IdOnly);
view.PropertySet.Add(FolderSchema.DisplayName);
view.PropertySet.Add(FolderSchema.FolderClass);
view.PropertySet.Add(FolderSchema.ParentFolderId);
view.Traversal = FolderTraversal.Deep;
FindFoldersResults findFolderResults = service.FindFolders(new FolderId(WellKnownFolderName.Root, mailbox), view);
This code has been working on another Exchange server before.
However when I try to change the exchange server I try to scan I get an error like this :
Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ServiceVersionException: Exchange Server doesn't support the requested version.
at Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ServiceRequestBase.ProcessWebException(WebException webException)
at Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ServiceRequestBase.GetEwsHttpWebResponse(IEwsHttpWebRequest request)
at Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ServiceRequestBase.ValidateAndEmitRequest(IEwsHttpWebRequest& request)
at Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.SimpleServiceRequestBase.InternalExecute()
at Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.MultiResponseServiceRequest`1.Execute()
at Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeService.InternalFindFolders(IEnumerable`1 parentFolderIds, SearchFilter searchFilter, FolderView view, ServiceErrorHandling errorHandlingMode)
at Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeService.FindFolders(FolderId parentFolderId, FolderView view)
at ExchangeSyncService.ExchangeToSqlService.SyncFolderForSubUser(ExchangeService service, Mailbox mailbox, Int32 nUserID)
The Exchange server that succeeded and failed are both Exchange 2010. I am searching are both Exchange 2010, and I checked the documentation that FindFolder is supported by all versions of Exchange 2010.
Is it really a version error or something else? Anyone have any insight on this?

problem solved thanks Glen can I ask you a new question? I ran into another error after solving that problem I got an error message that says
Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ServiceResponseException: The SMTP address has no mailbox associated with it.
at Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ServiceResponse.InternalThrowIfNecessary()
at Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ServiceResponse.ThrowIfNecessary()
at Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.MultiResponseServiceRequest`1.Execute()
at Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeService.InternalFindFolders(IEnumerable`1 parentFolderIds, SearchFilter searchFilter, FolderView view, ServiceErrorHandling errorHandlingMode)
at Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeService.FindFolders(FolderId parentFolderId, FolderView view)
at ExchangeSyncService.ExchangeToSqlService.SyncFolderForSubUser(ExchangeService service, Mailbox mb, Int32 nUserID)
The line of code that triggers this problem is
FolderView view = new FolderView(int.MaxValue);
view.PropertySet = new PropertySet(BasePropertySet.IdOnly);
view.PropertySet.Add(FolderSchema.DisplayName);
view.PropertySet.Add(FolderSchema.FolderClass);
view.PropertySet.Add(FolderSchema.ParentFolderId);
view.Traversal = FolderTraversal.Deep;
FindFoldersResults findFolderResults = service.FindFolders(new FolderId(WellKnownFolderName.Root, mb), view);
The error gets triggered on service.FindFolders. I am trying to grab all the folders from 1 user's account I am trying to access with a super admin account that has all access to all mailbox to all users on the server.
Any idea what is going on there?
It worked on my previous server just not working on this new server here.
Thanks

How to search for folders using jsp ( or any other way)?

Hey All,
It's my first time writing here and i hope i can get some help ... i have created a payroll system using java and jsp techniques and mysql as the database, i want to create a backup page that will let the use to choose the destination folder for the back up, the backup is basically a mysqldump command that will get the destination folder as an argument and create the sql file there. the problem is i couldn't find anyway to let the user browse his local machine and choose the folder , which in returns return the folder path to be used in mysqldump....
I know that html have <input type=file> but it's used for selecting file not folder...
can someone come up with a solution for me coz it's urgent and i have to finish the project by the end of this week.,.
peace!

Also you can use an OUTPUT clause ( need to modify your DML operations)
create table itest ( i int identity not null primary key, j int not null unique )
create table #new ( i int not null, j int not null)
insert into itest (j)
output inserted.i, inserted.j into #new
select o.object_id from sys.objects as o
select * from #new
drop table #new, itest;
go
The example below shows code that uses OUTPUT clause in UPDATE and DELETE statements to insert rows into an audit table.
create table t ( i int not null );
create table t_audit ( old_i int not null, new_i int null );
insert into t (i) values( 1 );
insert into t (i) values( 2 );
update t
set i = i + 1
output deleted.i, inserted.i into t_audit
where i = 1;
delete from t
output deleted.i, NULL into t_audit
where i = 2;
select * from t;
select * from t_audit;
drop table t, t_audit;
go
Best Regards,Uri Dimant SQL Server MVP,
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/uri_dimant/
MS SQL optimization: MS SQL Development and Optimization
MS SQL Consulting:
Large scale of database and data cleansing
Remote DBA Services:
Improves MS SQL Database Performance
SQL Server Integration Services:
Business Intelligence

GetFirstFile and GetNextFile while looking for folders

In LabWindows 7.0 "C" I am using a wild card construct to search for folders in a folder called "PAT_DISKS" as shown below:
strcpy(work,"c:\\DEVELOPMENT\\PAT_DISKS\\????MS??_DSK_PAT");
is = GetFirstFile (work, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, name);
is=GetNextFile (name);
there are at least three folders matching the criteria in "PAT_DISKS" but "GetNextFile" does not find them.
Is this a bug in LabWindows CVI 7.0 ?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Well, I do not have CVI 7.0, but I have 6.0.
I created the exact directory structure in my PC, did the same function call and it was successful for both GetFirstFile and GetNextFile.
Attached are the screenshots.
Did you try bu setting the normal attribute to 1?
S. Eren BALCI
www.aselsan.com.tr
Attachments:
folder_view.png ‏27 KB
func_call.png ‏19 KB

How can you search for outlook email folders quickly?

I am connected to my work outlook email system and within outlook I have circa 500+ folders. From the iPhone you can see all the folders in the email account but the list is (a). expanded {which makes the list huge} and (b). there appears to be no facility to search for a folder.
Normally in other areas of the iphone OS, obviously you pull down (rather than pushing up) and you are shown the search box.
This appears to have been missed in this area of the OS so all you have is your finger to scroll through the list - I am sure that I am not the only one who has found this problem as it is very difficult to use the iphone without a search facility or at least not expanding all the folders.
It takes me 5-10 minutes to find a folder for example...
Regards,

On your desktop, go to the store and click on the movies tab --> (Great Movies, Great Prices)

Is it possible to search for multiple folders with the same name and...

Is it possible to search for multiple folders with the same name and then select them all and change the permissions on just those folders .i.e. Search for the budget folders in all client folders and lock them down to just the project managers. Without having to go to each folder and apply the permissions.

user11919409 wrote:
Is it possible to create a Clone database with the same name of source db using RMAN ...
yes
>
DB version is 11.2.0.2
Is it possible to clone a 11.2.0.2 database to 11.2.0.3 home location directly on a new server . If it starts in a upgrade mode , it is ok ....yes
Handle:     user11919409
Status Level:     Newbie (10)
Registered:     Dec 7, 2009
Total Posts:     102
Total Questions:     28 (22 unresolved)
why do you waste time here when you rarely get any answers to your questions?

Search for file types in multiple folders

Hello,
I would like to copy all jpg images from around twenty folders into one folder. In Windows you simply go to the root folder and search for *.jpg, and it will list all jpg files in these twenty folders.
How can I achieve the same effect in OSX? The finder doesn't seem to understand that command...

Activate the Finder and press COMMAND-F. You will see the button labeled "Kind" then "Any." Select "Image" from the second button. A third button appears labeled "All." Select JPEG from the third button. This will list all such images for the selected directory in the toolbar above. To find on the entire drive select This Mac. To save the search click on the Save button to the right.
You can use the + button on the right to add additional search criteria. Obviously you can create some very complex searches with a little time and practice.

I installed LR CC , but when i try launching it flashes & it is gone. I tried the solution in the Adobe Site - which says search for the folder Library/Application Support/ Adobe/ Sl Store ...., but i can't seem to find the SL Store or SLCache folders ( i

I installed LR CC , but when i try launching it flashes & it is gone. I tried the solution in the Adobe Site - which says search for the folder Library/Application Support/ Adobe/ Sl Store ...., but i can't seem to find the SL Store or SLCache folders ( i use the Mac). Only then can i apply the solution. I just cant seem to find the folder in the first place

That did not work for me & as per adobe site help if signing out does not help- we are supposed to go the above folders & do some additional steps, but i could not find the folders & hence the question

I am searching for an easy solution to store PDF in folders at ebook on iPad ?

I am searching for an easy solution to store PDF in folders at ebook on iPad ?

I use Goodreader. It is a much superior app to iBooks with a better file management system a the ability to rename files, add annotations etc. Go to the App store and enter Goodreader to read all about it. It only costs a few pounds sterling.

Search multiple folders for files with same name and create single file

I have a project where I need to search multiple folders for a file name and when found append data from each file to a single input file.
Example
root folder to start search
\\servera\sales
\\servera\it\salesa\cmmstr.txt
\\servera\it\salesb\cmmstr.txt
\\servera\it\salesc\cmmstr.txt
I need to create a a single cmmstr.txt on the root folder. I would like it to be able to run this with parms to pass in folders to search and file names to search and single file name to create. I'm going to have a least 10 differnt files to
search for and create output file for. The folders to search
will somewhat be static.
Thanks.

I tested this out on my own seat and I think it should work for you. I wrote it as a function, all you have to do is pass the root folders you want to search and the file your looking for. The function will then search that directory and all sub directories
for that file name. you will also have to provide it a file to append to, if the file dosen't exists the function will create it. If you run into an issues let me know and the links Mike
Laughlin posted are a great resource.
Function Search-Files{
Param([String[]]$Locations, $SearchFor, $AppendTo)
Begin
If(-Not (Test-Path $AppendTo)){New-Item $AppendTo -ItemType File -Force}
Process
ForEach($Location in $Locations)
$Files = Get-ChildItem -Path $Location -Filter $SearchFor -Recurse
ForEach($File in $Files)
Get-Content -Path $FIles.FullName | Out-File $AppendTo -Append
End{}
Search-Files -Locations "\\Server1\c$\Temp", "\\Server1\c$\Test1" -SearchFor "Install.cmd" -AppendTo "C:\Temp\Search.log"

Searching for Folders

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for