Search for files on disks by patterns

[makinero]

tuska - It's impressive that you wanted to help me , but I figured out how to solve my problem in the post
#325388

[tuska]

For those who are interested in using TC with Everything - Search Syntax:
- Here are other examples to limit the search to a defined directory depth
- Also includes the description of how to search for several predefined folders at the same time

Search for folders and subfolders:
E:\AB 1\
E:\AB 1\AB 1\
G:\AB 2\
G:\AB HHH 3\
Z:\AB Friends\
Z:\AB Friends\AB Friends\

Search only for this folders:

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- ed:folder:"AB 1"|"AB HHH 3"|"AB Friends" parents:-1      E:\;G:\;Z:\     all (unlimited depth)  -  search in TC with Everything
- folder:"AB 1"|"AB HHH 3"|"AB Friends" parents:-1                                                -  search directly in Everything
- Findings: [E:\AB 1], [G:\AB HHH 3], [Z:\AB Friends]

Search for folders beginning with AB (case-sensitive)

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- ed:folder:case:AB* parents:-1                            E:\;G:\;Z:\     all (unlimited depth)  -  search in TC with Everything
- folder:case:AB* parents:-1 							                                                -  search directly in Everything
- Findings:	[E:\AB 1], [G:\AB 2], [G:\AB HHH 3], [Z:\AB Friends]

Notes:
1-- Subfolders [E:\AB 1\AB 1] and [Z:\AB Friends\AB Friends] are available but are excluded due to parameter: parents:-1
1.1 To find this subfolders also the parameter must be changed as follows ... parents:-2
1.2 With parents:<nr the directory depth can be specified for the search
2-- Quotation marks ("") are required because of blanks in the foldernames

Everything: Help > Search Syntax > Functions > parents:<count> ...
Search for files and folders with the specified number of parent folders.
In TC-Help there exists also a hint with respect to this parameter.

Very interesting:
http://www.voidtools.com/faq/#How_long_will_it_take_to_index_my_files