The search dialog allows you search in the tree, as well as apply a filter to the tree.
The filter is applied, starting from the root. Applying the filter marks all items that match the criteria with a green mark and all items that have matching sub-items with a yellow round mark.
The search is controlled by the following settings:
The progress can be monitored from the lower left section of dialog. You can interrupt the process at any time.
Argentum MyFiles includes powerful item filtering options. This enables you to pick subsets of a tree. By a tree subset, we imply a selective set of branches and items of that tree. Filtering can be used mainly to search and view particular items and branches within the explorer and to process tree subsets. Typical applications are: writing a tree subset to the disk as a new tree and publishing a tree subset. The main advantage of filtering feature is that, in general, working with the filtered tree is much the same as working with the original, non-filtered one.
The results of a filter are visually annotated to an item, representing one of the four possible states, including one special state:
Therefore a filter classifies all items of the tree into three parts: blank, green, and yellow. After opening a tree all items of that tree are, by default, non-filtered. MyFiles then allows you to: