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[Feature Request] Shortcut to skip current searched directory

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skajfes:
Additional benefit is that when you actually launch something from the folders that are not included in the search by default, it gets added to launch history, and FARR promptly offers the same results in default search.

mouser:
skajfes solution is definitely the best one for long term happiness.

david787:
I have a similar set of folders, but I've taken a different approach, using modifier keywords. That way by default FARR doesn't search those folders, unless I explicitly want to.
So for example my music folder has a modifier keyword "music", and if I want to search music I just append +music to the search. That causes FARR to search only my music folders. Note you can have multiple folders with same keyword modifier, and multiple modifiers for same folders, so this is really flexible.
Similarly I have search modifier keywords for work documents (+w), dropbox (+db), code (+cc), etc.

-skajfes (August 03, 2017, 02:43 AM)
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It works but you have to type additional keywords. I guess i am just used to launch FARR search panel and type my program of file name without trying to remember which modifier for which folders or files is set.

skajfes:
I guess i am just used to launch FARR search panel and type my program of file name without trying to remember which modifier for which folders or files is set.
-david787 (August 03, 2017, 10:40 AM)
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That is all fine, but you have to take into consideration that FARR is not designed to search over large sets of files/folders, and forcing it to do so will just ruin the experience.
Also if you think about it, you'll have your search modifiers commited to muscle memory in no time, so that will become almost a non issue. I don't event think about what modifier is for what, just type and the right stuff happens.

I know it's a hassle having to deal with this, but when you think about it, you can probably get away with two or three different modifiers, depending on your setup. For example a separate modifier for network mounted drives, since they're slow by default. And one for large collections of files (ie music, documents or whatever)

Other thing you can do is try to narrow down the search, when defining search folders. For example I have a folder where I keep all my source code for projects, work and stuff, and it is a huge collection of files (19 GB, 150 000 files, over 29000 folders). However, when I want to launch something from there it is usually just the solution, or project file, and it is normally found 2 or 3 levels deep in the folder structure. So I have added file extension restritions to only include *.sln and *.csproj files, 4 levels deep into the folder structure, and now it is blazing fast - and it works awesome.

If you can't do that you can narrow the search by excluding files from folders, for example you will almost never want to launch a *.dll file, so add it to extension restriction (with a minus: -dll) so it will skip those files.

As I said, it depends on your setup.

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