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[idoc]

I am having a hard time searching with filename: For example, I have a pdf file called "Employee payroll". When I conduct the following search filename:Employee* I get nothing. Even if I do resource:application/pdf filename:Employee* I still get nothing. Am I missing something? This is usually not a big issue for me since I nearly always title my note with the file name and that's how I find them.

The windows client filename: search is currently case sensitive. Are you sure you tested with capital E.
Try:
any: filename:employee* filename:Employee*

Owyn,
Once again you saved the day. You were absolutely right. It was simply a matter of case sensitivity. I capitalize all my file names but was searching with non-caps. Also, I realize that you absolutely need to use the wildcard in these searches. For example, filename:Employee* gets me directly to the note with that file. However, typing filename:Employee payroll gets me nothing even though I've typed the exact name of the file. I can't explain why that happens but I'm happy that I can at least search for direct files now. Thanks again!!

P.S: Premium user, Windows 7

[Owyn]

See
http://discussion.ev...post__p__131904

[EdH]

Organization doesn't just magically happen.

In the future, we'll try to make as much magic happen as possible though.

Thank you DLU. That is the whole point of EN. I shouldn't have to spend time meticulously naming my notes, structuring tags, etc. just to find stuff. I agree with the general consensus in this thread that file names should be indexed and returned without having to know specific search terms. The "filename:" term should be very useful to find just those notes with a specific filename, but not required just to find notes with the words in the file name.

[heather]

Owyn,
Once again you saved the day. You were absolutely right. It was simply a matter of case sensitivity. I capitalize all my file names but was searching with non-caps. Also, I realize that you absolutely need to use the wildcard in these searches. For example, filename:Employee* gets me directly to the note with that file. However, typing filename:Employee payroll gets me nothing even though I've typed the exact name of the file. I can't explain why that happens but I'm happy that I can at least search for direct files now. Thanks again!!

Have you tried: "filename:"Employee payroll"? You'll need quotes around multi-word phrases.

[EdH]

I've also found that you must know what the filename starts with.

filename:file* finds all files starting with "file"

filename:*file* finds nothing.

[JMichael]

The windows client filename: search is currently case sensitive. Are you sure you tested with capital E.
Try:
any: filename:employee* filename:Employee*

This is really unexpected and inconsistent with all of the other Search expressions.
What possible purpose or benefit is there in making ONLY a search for file name be case sensitive?

Evernote, please consider this a Change Request to make searches for file name to be case insensitive.

[Shane J]

I have to agree that filename search should be improved. I'm not asking for much. I just want to be able to search for a portion of a filename (case insensitive) like I can in Windows Explorer or Mac OS.

[Mike Wood]

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Unfortunately it doesn't support searching the end of filenames.... "letter*" & "LeTtEr*" works but "*etter.doc" doesn't!

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[roschler]

Then try filename:*
Or, if you are simply looking for notes that contain attachments, try resource:* (which will include image attachments, so you may have a huge list.) You can narrow it down with:

- Search for PDF: resource:application/pdf
- Search for Doc files: resource:application/msword (does not find .docx files)
- Search for Excel files: resource:application/vnd.ms-excel
- Search for XLSX files: resource:application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
- Search for Word files: resource:application/msword
- Search for Zip files: resource:application/x-zip-compressed
- Search for specific filenames: filename:xyz* This will find filenames that start with "xyz".

(My point here is, we do index filenames, and a whole bunch of other stuff. You just have to know how to search for it.)

Hello heather,

1. Do know of any more common resource names?

2. Do know of any other search tips like that?

The search grammar document does not list the ones you just gave and I'm trying to corral as many of them as possible for a new search utility I'm working on. Also, if you know of any other commonly used contentClass or sourceApplication values other than the usual food, skitch, ink, etc. that are found in the search grammar document, please let me know. In fact, any search query tips you have that are not in the main search document are greatly appreciated. The document I am referring to is here:

http://dev.evernote....rch_grammar.php

I never even saw the filename: search query modifier before your post and that's a great one!

Thanks,
Robert

[jbenson2]

Some of the advanced search operators:

https://support.ever...489&docID=23746

But I have my doubts about the recoType: search. I seem to recall that there are problems with that search.


edit: just found it
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Evernote support sent me the following message back on April 12, 2011

recotype:picture is mostly obsolete

On the average user machine like yours, you would have upgraded past the last version that created this content a long time ago - around the time Evernote 3.5 was being readied for release.

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Hmmm, I wonder why Evernote keeps the recoType in the Knowlegebase if it removed years ago.

[spg SCOTT]

roschler,

This may help. It is a note that I made a little while ago, when I noticed that there were some inconsistencies like you see here.
There are a few terms that are not mentioned anywhere other than the forum, so can be a bit tricky to find.

http://www.evernote....ba95c70be368426

Scott

p.s. I also replied to your thread about contentclass/sourceapplication in the dev forum

[roschler]

Thanks Scott!

-- roschler

[clay_farris]

I agree with the poster that this is a pretty basic intuitive part of search that should be happening seemlessly for the user. My brain doesnt have to remember it was in a filename and is more interested in the content than the classification. Evernote can and should do this. Other search utilities do the same (including the search you run for files on any windows pc). Any software misses a few basic things and eventually the good ones go back and fill in the gap. Evernote is awesome and I am sure they'll go back and get this one that was missed.

[coreypud]

Does the filemame: search not search the extension of the file? In the past I thought I've done searches for filename:*docx and found any that have the .docx extension.

I've also had problems in the past using the resource: search parameter in the past because there are a few different ways that application types seem to be recognized as. This has required a few different search parameters to find all the variations. For example for Excel:

any:any: resource:application/vnd.ms-excel resource:application/msexcel resource:application/x-msexcel resource:application/x-ms-excel resource:application/vnd.ms-excel resource:application/x-excel resource:application/x-dos_ms_excel resource:application/xls resource:application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet

[roschler]

Does the filemame: search not search the extension of the file? In the past I thought I've done searches for filename:*docx and found any that have the .docx extension.

I've also had problems in the past using the resource: search parameter in the past because there are a few different ways that application types seem to be recognized as. This has required a few different search parameters to find all the variations. For example for Excel:

any:any: resource:application/vnd.ms-excel resource:application/msexcel resource:application/x-msexcel resource:application/x-ms-excel resource:application/vnd.ms-excel resource:application/x-excel resource:application/x-dos_ms_excel resource:application/xls resource:application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet

@coreypud,

If you have a list of these filename sets like the one above for Excel, please post them or send them to me. I need them for BitQwik.

If anybody else has information like that given by coreypud please post it here.

-- roschler

[jefito]

I plugged "filename:*docx" into the Windows search control, and the Search Info gave me:

Viewing 9 notes from [All Notebooks] matching [All] of the following:

contains words starting with [docx] with advanced filters [filename:*]

If that's the case, it's probably going to return all notes with an attachment and containing words starting with "docx". The latter will include notes that have "docx" in their note content, regardless of whether the note has a "docx" attachment. I think it also returns notes containing .docx attachments as it's including the attachment names as part of its word search, and ".", being punctuation, is ignored. This may be a case of how things work on the Windows client; I haven't tried any others.

[Max Zhuravlev]

Then try filename:*
Or, if you are simply looking for notes that contain attachments, try resource:* (which will include image attachments, so you may have a huge list.) You can narrow it down with:

- Search for PDF: resource:application/pdf
- Search for Doc files: resource:application/msword (does not find .docx files)
- Search for Excel files: resource:application/vnd.ms-excel
- Search for XLSX files: resource:application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
- Search for Word files: resource:application/msword
- Search for Zip files: resource:application/x-zip-compressed
- Search for specific filenames: filename:xyz* This will find filenames that start with "xyz".

(My point here is, we do index filenames, and a whole bunch of other stuff. You just have to know how to search for it.)

 

 

Then try filename:*
Or, if you are simply looking for notes that contain attachments, try resource:* (which will include image attachments, so you may have a huge list.) You can narrow it down with:

- Search for PDF: resource:application/pdf
- Search for Doc files: resource:application/msword (does not find .docx files)
- Search for Excel files: resource:application/vnd.ms-excel
- Search for XLSX files: resource:application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
- Search for Word files: resource:application/msword
- Search for Zip files: resource:application/x-zip-compressed
- Search for specific filenames: filename:xyz* This will find filenames that start with "xyz".

(My point here is, we do index filenames, and a whole bunch of other stuff. You just have to know how to search for it.)

Hello heather,

1. Do know of any more common resource names?

2. Do know of any other search tips like that?

The search grammar document does not list the ones you just gave and I'm trying to corral as many of them as possible for a new search utility I'm working on. Also, if you know of any other commonly used contentClass or sourceApplication values other than the usual food, skitch, ink, etc. that are found in the search grammar document, please let me know. In fact, any search query tips you have that are not in the main search document are greatly appreciated. The document I am referring to is here:

http://dev.evernote....rch_grammar.php

I never even saw the filename: search query modifier before your post and that's a great one!

Thanks,
Robert

 

 

Does the filemame: search not search the extension of the file? In the past I thought I've done searches for filename:*docx and found any that have the .docx extension.

I've also had problems in the past using the resource: search parameter in the past because there are a few different ways that application types seem to be recognized as. This has required a few different search parameters to find all the variations. For example for Excel:

any:any: resource:application/vnd.ms-excel resource:application/msexcel resource:application/x-msexcel resource:application/x-ms-excel resource:application/vnd.ms-excel resource:application/x-excel resource:application/x-dos_ms_excel resource:application/xls resource:application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet

 

 

Does the filemame: search not search the extension of the file? In the past I thought I've done searches for filename:*docx and found any that have the .docx extension.

I've also had problems in the past using the resource: search parameter in the past because there are a few different ways that application types seem to be recognized as. This has required a few different search parameters to find all the variations. For example for Excel:

any:any: resource:application/vnd.ms-excel resource:application/msexcel resource:application/x-msexcel resource:application/x-ms-excel resource:application/vnd.ms-excel resource:application/x-excel resource:application/x-dos_ms_excel resource:application/xls resource:application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet

@coreypud,

If you have a list of these filename sets like the one above for Excel, please post them or send them to me. I need them for BitQwik.

If anybody else has information like that given by coreypud please post it here.

-- roschler

 

Evernote uses MIME type in "resource:" query. So you can get MIME type of any file for example at http://mime.ritey.com/

 

For example, I needed to find all "*.xlogic" files. I uploaded one xlogic file there and got mimetype:

 

Actually it's odd that evernote has no feature of search by file extension

Because:

1. User can't guess that "*.xlogic" file matches "resource:application/octet-stream"
2. Files with different extension may have same resource type. For example "resource:application/octet-stream" matches .xlogic as well as .psd and .rar