Guest Dave F. Posted August 5, 2008 Posted August 5, 2008 Hi I'm looking for a file search utility that can be told not to search specified folders. For example to search all of my c: drive except c:\mymusic. Could anyone recommend such a utility? Thanks in advance Dave F.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted August 5, 2008 Posted August 5, 2008 Re: disk search utility that can exempt specified folders? "Dave F." <df@maaf.cu.uk> wrote in message news:%23hiKrE09IHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Hi > > I'm looking for a file search utility that can be told not to search > specified folders. > For example to search all of my c: drive except c:\mymusic. > > Could anyone recommend such a utility? > > Thanks in advance > Dave F. It depends a lot on what you mean by "searching". Do you expect the utility to give you a list of files that are found in all but the excluded folder(s)? If so then this command, when executed from a command prompt, might fit the bill: xcopy /L /s /exclude:c:\ex.txt "c:\documents and settings\df" c:\ Place this line into c:\ex.txt: c:\mymusic In spite of its name (xcopy), the command will NOT copy any files when used with the above switches.
Guest Bill in Co. Posted August 6, 2008 Posted August 6, 2008 Re: disk search utility that can exempt specified folders? FileLocator Pro, big brother to Agent Ransack. Dave F. wrote: > Hi > > I'm looking for a file search utility that can be told not to search > specified folders. For example to search all of my c: drive except > c:\mymusic. > > Could anyone recommend such a utility? > > Thanks in advance > Dave F.
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