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Find And Run Robot / Re: File is there, can't find it

« on: October 17, 2008, 01:30 PM »

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll give these a go. I tried making a new file in a directory 4 levels deep, also in My Documents, and as long as the recursion level was set properly (see below) FARR found it OK. But still not this other file.

On the subject of recursion: -1 seems to be the default setting and was what I had it at previously, when it was failing to find the file. I puzzled over this: why is it a minus figure? I guessed this meant that to include two levels you should set it to -2. Tried that and it just changed it back to -1. Then I tried positive numbers which seemed to work. If 0 is no recursion, why isn't that the default? It's not very clear.

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Find And Run Robot / File is there, can't find it

« on: October 17, 2008, 05:21 AM »

hi,

having some frustration when I set FARR off in search of a file which I know is there, but which it fails to find. I'm trying to see what parameters in the settings might be affecting this. The file - let's call it findthis.xls - is in My Documents, 2 levels down (ie it goes My Documents\folder1\folder2\findthis.xls. My Documents is in the Search Folders list. I have recursion set to 4, just to be on the safe side. I've put My Documents to the top of the list, and it has a high rating compared to other folders. Even typing in the exact title of the file --> "Found 0 results in 3 seconds".

This is all becoming a bit artificial - I know exactly where the file is and could open it in a moment - but I would really like to find out why FARR can't find it. Also, once it is open, it will be in the history, and I'm pretty sure FARR will be able to find it then (I have My Recent Docs in the list, with a pretty high priority).

One other thing - I have a keyword modifier for My Documents, and if i "force" FARR to look there by using it, again I'm pretty sure it will find it. But I'd like to know why it doesn't find it in the normal way.

Any suggestions?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Aliases - at a loss with them

« on: July 11, 2008, 07:13 AM »

thanks, works perfectly! I think my problem was somehow I thought you could set an alias to a folder... also the fact that I hadn't really looked at shortcuts.

In terms of terminology, I think maybe in the "Edit Search Folder" box, "Shortcut" would be clearer than "Optional modifier keywords".

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Find And Run Robot / Aliases - at a loss with them

« on: July 10, 2008, 02:16 PM »

hi,

I'm really enjoying and getting a lot out of FARR but when it comes to aliases I am completely at a loss. I feel there's bound to be something really simple I'm missing which hopefully someone can draw my attention to ...   Here's what I want to do:

1. have an alias I can add things to, along the lines of the mygames example, as a kind of handy container for groups of frequently used files.

2. have aliases for certain frequently used directories, so I can narrow the search down to them straightaway. Eg I often know that the file I'm looking for is somewhere in the tangle of directories underneath My Documents, so I want FARR to start there and not bother looking anywhere else. So I would have an alias "md" say, whose "result" would be the My Documents folder and would save me the bother of typing out c:\documents and settings\etc\etc every time. then I could just type "md obscurefile.txt" for something I knew was somewhere in My Documents.

However having created these aliases, all that happens when I type them is that FARR searches for that string, ie for sth corresponding to "md", "mygames" etc, in the normal fashion. It doesn't seem to be treating them as commands at all.

The aliases that are already present work fine, eg run calc starts the calculator etc.

Any guidance on how I make this work?