14/07/2023 Topic: How does Search work? James7	I'm a new user and trying to find how the program works, but in particular the Search function. I looked at the manual, but I think that my question was not answered or perhaps I didn't understand how it works. I'm using the zip package which I extracted to a test directory on my C drive where I run Windows 11. Firstly, does SyMenu find folders on my PC? Secondly, if I test search for "test" I get a result of a document that contains the word "test" in its file name using the FS option and under SY and DS another (text) document that contains the word "test" in the body of the file, However, the response under FS does not apparently look fully into my C drive, but only in one of my external drives. For example, I put a file named test.txt in another of my external drives and SyMenu does not find it with Search. It also doesn't find it on my C drive.
14/07/2023 Topic: How does Search work? James7	Thank you for your detailed reply thanks to which I now understand better the difference between SY mode and DS mode. However I'm still unsure about the results. If I add C:\ as a SyFolder would the Search function not find files inside my C drive? Is it because the Search does not include subdirectories of SyFolders? edited by James7 on 14/07/2023
14/07/2023 Topic: How does Search work? James7	Thank you again for the reply. The C:\ SyFolder that I created is already checked as Searchable. I cannot upload an image of the window concerned to show you what it's like. Unfortunately, search doesn't work as it is. I can execute the SyFolder from the configuration window, and the Number of Executions part of the window is updated accordingly. "Everything" may be a solution, but it would require me to learn its specific parameters and ideally I would rather avoid having to do that. edited by James7 on 14/07/2023
14/07/2023 Topic: How does Search work? James7	OK here's what's happening now. I'm quite certain of the following. 1. For my external drives the FS mode search doesn't work if the SyFolder is the root directory, for example E:\. There must be one subfolder in order for the search to work otherwise there is no search result in subfolders. 2. For drive C the same applies, but worse than that the path must be longer, up to the folder of interest. A shorter path does not help having a successful search in subfolders. Thank you for your interest in this matter and I hope that the above may clarify what I'm faced with.
14/07/2023 Topic: How does Search work? James7	Thank you for your answer and I'm glad that I wasn't going crazy after all! I'll be using Everything until a "native" solution is found for search in SyMenu. In any case I'll reduce the scope of the files population to be included in searches.

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