Idiot Question

[Billy Rygar]

So I'm staring at a huge chunk of pdf files with bad naming conventions.  I need to find a few specific one.  The pdfs are named after people, but the convention is 1DEMI.pdf.  Putting in DEMI into the search box gives me nothing.  WHAT THE FUCK MICROSOFT. 

[demi]

Do they show up if you do *.pdf

[demi]

Have you tried something like this?



Or replace "demi" with "*demi" (wildcards)

[Van Cruncheon]

not even *demi.pdf?

[CajoleJuice]

lol windows

oh wait that's not my usual schtick, shit

[Howard Alan Treesong]

*demi.pdf should definitely work ... maybe make sure the directory they're stored in has been indexed for searching?

[recursivelyenumerable]

"filename:*demi" should work, whether it's been indexed or not

[Ganhyun]

"filename:*demi" should work, whether it's been indexed or not

This.

I wonder if its some sort of Adobe issue then.

Edit: As in, something with how Adobe saves the data for these files is blocking the search.

[recursivelyenumerable]

"filename:*demi" should work, whether it's been indexed or not

This.

I wonder if its some sort of Adobe issue then.

Edit: As in, something with how Adobe saves the data for these files is blocking the search.

That doesn't make any sense for the filename, though.

Anyway, I'd recommend using wingrep or something as borys suggested. Or you could do a "gci -r | ? {$_.Name -like '*demi*.pdf' }" in powershell.

[Eel O'Brian]

run the entire folder through a file renaming program and remove all the numbers