Elliot B. Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Trying to find all files and folders in E:\My Pictures\Scans When I try, I get "No items match your search." Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daedroth Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Are you entering *.* as your search term, or just *? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliot B. Posted November 23, 2015 Author Share Posted November 23, 2015 Are you entering *.* as your search term, or just *? *, which has worked on every version of Windows for years (and works on my Windows 10 machine at work, so it can't be a Windows 10 issue). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAZMINATOR Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 I usually use this format: *.jog, *.gif, *.bmp for images/photos *.txt, *.doc, etc for text files. and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliot B. Posted November 23, 2015 Author Share Posted November 23, 2015 I usually use this format: *.jog, *.gif, *.bmp for images/photos *.txt, *.doc, etc for text files. and so on. That's correct but * searches for everything. Saying that, I can't find anything in my E:\My Pictures\Scans directory, which is annoying. Windows Indexing options doesn't allow me to add anything on E:\ (because E:\ doesn't show up in the dialogue box). The E:\ drive is set to allow indexing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAZMINATOR Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Right click on E: and select properties and see if it is hidden or private.. if so, you might want to change it. Unless the E is locked to that user on your computer only. If so, add your user account to that E drive so you can see the E drive. Is it an external drive? If so, then check the properties and make some changes if necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted November 23, 2015 Supervisor Share Posted November 23, 2015 Saying that, I can't find anything in my E:\My Pictures\Scans directory, which is annoying. Just to verify, do you mean that if there is a file E:\My Pictures\Scans\text.txt and you search for text.txt, you get no results? Did you post recently about other issues with this drive, or was that someone else? And what is E? A physically separate drive? A partition? Doesn't seem like an issue with indexing - I'm pretty sure C:\Windows is not indexed on my end, and searches for specific files or wildcards are successful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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