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Question: can directories be excluded on finding files

Open FrankKlappe opened this issue 1 year ago • 4 comments

In the "Find and replace" dialog its possible to find files in a directory. In my case i want to search a directory with all its subdirectories except specific directories (like the dir node_modules). Can BowPad exclude certain directories?

FrankKlappe avatar Jun 26 '24 09:06 FrankKlappe

you see the "folders to search" box at the bottom of the find dialog?

stefankueng avatar Jun 29 '24 07:06 stefankueng

Sure thing I see the "folders to search" box, but this only allows to select a single folder right? So imagine the following, I have a folder structure:

c:\git c:\git\project1 c:\git\project3 c:\git\project3\subfolder c:\git\project3\othersubfolder c:\git\project4 c:\git\project5 c:\git\project5\subfolder c:\git\project5\othersubfolder

so say i want to find a file, but i dont know which folder it sits in, so my "folder to search" becomes c:\git, including subfolders. But I know for sure my files wont be in the folder "othersubfolder", is there a way to exclude the folder "othersubfolder"?

FrankKlappe avatar Jul 01 '24 08:07 FrankKlappe

sorry, but that's not possible.

stefankueng avatar Jul 02 '24 19:07 stefankueng

Would you consider this as a feature request?

I noticed your other project, GrepWin, does have this option. It would be really nice to combine these two great tools

FrankKlappe avatar Jul 03 '24 06:07 FrankKlappe