How do you search for files that include "@" in the filename from the search window?
4 Answers
In Vista:
- press Win+F to show search window
- open Advanced search
- select Location (for example Local Hard Drives)
- type * @ * in Name field (without spaces between * and @)
- to narrow search to files select Document in Show only:
- press Search
Alternatively you can just type following into search box in Windows explorer:
name:*@* kind:docs
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1You might also have to tick the tick box: ´Include non-indexed, hidden, and system files (might be slow)´– aweSep 22, 2009 at 11:06
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my guess would be to escape it like you would at a command prompt with a caret. e.g. dir *^@.txt
i don't have a machine to try this on right now.
-don
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Much like with most search engines, you can use " " [quotation marks].
Not perfect, it will still will find other things (not sure why).
Moreover wildcards will be a bit of a problem.
You can narrow it down to files by using "kind:" (docs, music etc'), you can find some syntax help here.
By the way, this is in Windows 7.