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Basic Searching With FileSeek
Basic Searching With FileSeek

January 31, 2020
FileSeek is an easy-to-use file search app with advanced capabilities, but even basic searches require configuration. This guide showcases the two most common scenarios for searching and the options you should enable to make them work.
File and Folder Names Only
Open FileSeek and click on the "Advanced" tab.
Enable the following checkboxes:
  • Search sub-folders
  • Show file names that match the "include files" filter
  • Show folder names that match the "include files" filter
Advanced Tab
Click on the "Search" tab.
Click "Browse" next to the Path(s) field, and choose the folder that you want to search. You can also search network shares by entering their UNC paths, like this: 
\\servername\sharename\foldername
.
In the Include Files field, enter the text you want to search for in the file/folder names. For example, if you want to search for all files and folders with "logo" in the name, enter the following: 
*logo*
. Leave the Query field empty.
Search Tab
Click the Search button. Results will show in the bottom pane.
File Contents
Open FileSeek and click on the "Advanced" tab.
Enable the following checkboxes:
  • Search sub-folders
  • Process file contents using File Handlers
  • Show file names that match the "include files" filter
  • Show folder names that match the "include files" filter
Advanced Tab
Click on the "Search" tab.
Click "Browse" next to the Path(s) field, and choose the folder that you want to search.
In the Include Files field, you can specify which file types should be searched. For example, if you want to search in the contents of PDF, text, and Word documents, enter the following: 
*.pdf|*.txt|*.doc|*.docx
.
In the Query field, enter the text you want to search for. For example, to find all files with "checkcentral" in the contents of the file, just enter 
checkcentral
. The Query box uses our custom text query syntax, which allows the use of operators to include and exclude words.
Search Tab
Click the Search button. Results will show in the bottom pane.
Note: If you see results that say there's no file handler for the file, you will need to install a third-party file handler/iFilter for that file type. We have a list of common ones here: File Handlers for FileSeek.

FileSeek 6.3 Now Available!
FileSeek 6.3 Now Available!

December 20, 2019

We're very excited to announce that FileSeek 6.3 is now available for download! This release fixes a bunch of minor issues.

FileSeek 6.3 Changes

  • Change: Tab order on Search tab now cycles through all text input fields before moving to the buttons
  • Fix: Search tab controls no longer get scrambled with single instance mode enabled
  • Fix: Resolved an issue where the tab would be blank when using single instance mode and minimize to tray
  • Fix: Resolved an issue where RegEx queries didn't work if "Treat query text as one large query term" is enabled
  • Fix: No longer shows duplicate results if the same Path is entered twice on the Search tab
  • Fix: Status bar fix for 200% scaling

Updating FileSeek

We encourage everyone to update to the new version today to take advantage of these improvements. If you would like to see a complete list of all the changes, please view the FileSeek Change Log. We would also like to thank all of the translators who have helped translate FileSeek to their native languages.

FileSeek Screenshots

FileSeek Search
FileSeek Search

FileSeek 6.2.1 Now Available!
FileSeek 6.2.1 Now Available!

October 8, 2019

We're very excited to announce that FileSeek 6.2.1 is now available for download! This release fixes a few minor issues from 6.2.0.

FileSeek 6.2.1 Changes

  • Fix: Resolved an issue that caused FileSeek to take a very long time to open on some systems
  • Fix: Accelerator keys (e.g. Alt + Q to jump to the Query box) now work on the Search tab
  • Fix: Resolved an issue where Date Filters were not correctly applying to Folders in the results

Updating FileSeek

We encourage everyone to update to the new version today to take advantage of these improvements. If you would like to see a complete list of all the changes, please view the FileSeek Change Log. We would also like to thank all of the translators who have helped translate FileSeek to their native languages.

FileSeek Screenshots

FileSeek Search
FileSeek Search

FileSeek 6.2 Now Available!
FileSeek 6.2 Now Available!

August 23, 2019

We're very excited to announce that FileSeek 6.2 is now available for download! We've fixed up a bunch of DPI scaling issues, and a few other minor issues.

FileSeek 6.2 Changes

  • New tabs no longer broken after using "Close All But This"
  • Search tab buttons no longer continually increase in size when using font scaling
  • Various other font scaling fixes
  • Help button next to the Query box now correctly takes you to the Text Query help
  • Custom encoding option now works correctly for .txt files when file handlers are enabled
  • You can now specify multiple encoding types in the Custom File Encoding advanced setting
  • Exact match operator (=) now matches on word boundary instead of entire line
  • Added an Encoding column to the results pane (disabled by default, you can enable it in the Settings window)
  • General Fixes and improvements

Updating FileSeek

We encourage everyone to update to the new version today to take advantage of these improvements. If you would like to see a complete list of all the changes, please view the FileSeek Change Log. We would also like to thank all of the translators who have helped translate FileSeek to their native languages.

FileSeek Screenshots

FileSeek Search
FileSeek Search

FileSeek 6.1.1 Now Available!
FileSeek 6.1.1 Now Available!

July 9, 2018

We're very excited to announce that FileSeek 6.1.1 is now available for download! We've added a way to search the files LNK files are pointing to, and improved our push syncing service.

FileSeek 6.1.1 Changes

  • Push syncing improvements
  • FileSeek now has an option to also search the file that the found LNK file is pointing to
  • General fixes and improvements

Updating FileSeek

We encourage everyone to update to the new version today to take advantage of these improvements. If you would like to see a complete list of all the changes, please view the FileSeek Change Log. We would also like to thank all of the translators who have helped translate FileSeek to their native languages.

FileSeek Screenshots

FileSeek Settings Search Tab
FileSeek Settings Search Tab

FileSeek 6.1 Now Available!
FileSeek 6.1 Now Available!

February 5, 2018

We're very excited to announce that FileSeek 6.1 is now available for download! We've added a new results context menu option, improved our push syncing service, improved performance, and fixed some minor issues.

FileSeek 6.1 Changes

  • Added a new results context menu option that will copy the selected results and separate them by line breaks
  • Push syncing improvements
  • FileSeek will now have focus when it's first opened
  • General fixes and improvements

Updating FileSeek

We encourage everyone to update to the new version today to take advantage of these improvements. If you would like to see a complete list of all the changes, please view the FileSeek Change Log. We would also like to thank all of the translators who have helped translate FileSeek to their native languages.

FileSeek Screenshots

FileSeek Search Tab
FileSeek Search Tab
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