This subject is giving me a headache. There doesn't seem to be anyway of getting kfind to only look in certain directories. It will only except one. This isn't a problem off my home directory because I know where things are and don't often have to wait for kfind to sort through 15plus gig of all sorts of things (very little video etc). It is a problem searching off root as I have to include the home directory. A root search is often needed after I install new applications. I also want to re format 2 hard drives off my home directory. It would be nice to locate all pdf's, docs etc and sort them in one go. Files aren't a problem more than one directory is. Is there any way of doing this with kfind or is there another application that will. I've looked briefly at beagle but I don't want a dead brained numb skull windoze type solution that assumes I have everything in certain specifically named directories. It just isn't flexible enough and I do hope kde isn't going that way. Regards John On Wednesday 31 January 2007 13:02, John Meyer wrote: > John wrote: > > Hi > > I recently found that I could use kfind to find files with several > > suffixes by entering *.pdf;*.txt;*.doc etc. There is nothing in the help > > files on this general area of use. Assuming that it provides a graphical > > interface for something in linux itself I could use man to find out what > > options are available. But just what does it use? > > > > Alternatively - I want to search off root and exclude certain directories > > from the search. Is there a syntax to do that and/or to search a list of > > directories? In this instance I favour exclude to avoid a lot of typing. > > If you have KRegExp installed, you can use regular expressions to find > or not find files as you see fit. > ___________________________________________________ > This message is from the kde mailing list. > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. -- Regards John Suse 10.0 KDE 3.4.2 B ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.