[1.8.0.7] Filtering by name - am I too stupid?

Tuxman · Post by **Tuxman** » 2010 Feb 28, 00:52

(Been too lazy for that so far, I am currently digging a bit deeper into x²'s advanced functionality, so expect more threads like this one in the next few weeks.

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Following situation: I am in my, cough, rescued music folder, containing a lot of subfolders. Eight of those have "ange" as a part of their name. Now when I press ^H and type *ange*, nothing changes, except that the "Active Filter" icon is shown in status bar. I actually expect it to hide everything but the eight subfolders I mentioned.

Does the filter only apply to file names or is this a bug?

Tuxman · Post by **Tuxman** » 2010 Feb 28, 01:00

OK, I realized that quick search and "show only selected" does what I want, but I rather thought this would be a filtering issue. It is rather weird to have this under "Mark" when you don't actually want to mark.

Gandolf · Post by **Gandolf** » 2010 Feb 28, 02:55

Ctrl+H: From the help file "...All files that have matching names will be displayed in the folder pane, and the rest will be hidden from view. Note that folders in the pane are not hidden...".

Alt+H should do what you want. Select the "Folders" checkbox and only folders matching the name are displayed.

Tuxman · Post by **Tuxman** » 2010 Feb 28, 03:05

Ah, indeed.

Was my fault then. Thank you.