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How to find files and folders that have same name

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Hello, I need a help.How to find files and folders that have the same name in different locations ie:
C:\test.zip and C:\new\test?
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Re: How to find files and folders that have same name

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Just search for test
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Re: How to find files and folders that have same name

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Sorry I wasn't clear enough. How to find archive files (.zip) and folders that have same name in various locations.
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"Search" -> "Advanced" (tab) -> "Find Duplicate files" -> "same name"
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Re: How to find files and folders that have same name

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It doesn't work. I believe this feature is only for files.
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Re: How to find files and folders that have same name

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My problem is that I have lots of folders with extracted files and original archives which I want to delete,both archives and folders, have same name (after extract to ... feature).
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Re: How to find files and folders that have same name

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dylemat1 wrote: 2019-04-07, 19:34 UTC It doesn't work. I believe this feature is only for files.
Select the Everything option and make Everything searches, for example:
ev:wfn:test.*
ev:wfn:test

The first finds all folders named test.
The 2nd all files regarding its extension.
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Re: How to find files and folders that have same name

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I've also tried at the subject.

Search in separate process... Alt+Shift+F7
Find Files

General
Search for: ed:!C:\"Program Files" !C:\ProgramData !C:\Perl exact:test|exact:test.zip (! = NOT, | = OR)
Search in:   C:\
☑ 'Everything'
Search in subdirectories: all (unlimited depth)

However, I do not understand why this results are also displayed to me :roll: :
D:\Daten\EDV\Dateien sicher löschen\test.zip, D:\Daten\test.zip ==> Search in: C:\
The test files I am looking for are located in C:\Tools.
dylemat1 wrote:It doesn't work. I believe this feature is only for files.
No, try the following...

Search for: test

Advanced
☑ Find duplicate files:
☐ same name
☐ same size
Start search

Here you would get the following results (some of them are not exactly the files you are looking for):
Test
Test-Folder
test.zip
test_copy.zip


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Re: How to find files and folders that have same name

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You asked in the Everything forum the same question.
http://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7645
Did you try the suggested solution in TC ?
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