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<link type="guide" xref="files"/>
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<link type="guide" xref="shell-overview#files"/>
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<revision pkgversion="3.2" date="2011-09-26" status="final"/>
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<desc>Locate files based on file name and type. Save your
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searches for later use.</desc>
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<revision pkgversion="3.4.0" date="2012-02-19" status="review"/>
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<desc>Locate files based on file name and type. Save your searches for
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<credit type="author">
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<name>ग्नोम प्रलेखन परियोजना</name>
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<email>gnome-doc-list@gnome.org</email>
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<title>Search</title>
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<item><p>Open the <app>Files</app> application from the
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<gui>Activities</gui> overview.</p></item>
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<item><p>If you know the files you want are under a particular
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folder, go to that folder.</p></item>
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<item><p>Click <gui>Search</gui> in the toolbar, or press
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<keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>F</key></keyseq>.</p></item>
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<item><p>Type a word or words that you know appear in the file
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name and press enter. For example, if you name all your invoices
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with the word "Invoice", type <input>invoice</input>. Press <key>Enter</key>. Words are
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<item><p>Open the <app>Files</app> application from the <gui>Activities
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</gui> overview.</p></item>
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<item><p>If you know the files you want are under a particular folder, go
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to that folder.</p></item>
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<item><p>Click <gui>Search</gui> in the toolbar, or press <keyseq><key>Ctrl
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</key><key>F</key></keyseq>.</p></item>
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<item><p>Type a word or words that you know appear in the file name and
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press enter. For example, if you name all your invoices with the word
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"Invoice", type <input>invoice</input>. Press <key>Enter</key>. Words are
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matched regardless of case.</p></item>
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<item><p>You can narrow your results by location and file type. Click
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the <gui>+</gui> button to set more search criteria.</p>
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<item><p>You can narrow your results by location and file type. Click the
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<gui>+</gui> button to set more search criteria.</p>
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<item><p>Select <gui>Location</gui> from the drop-down list to narrow the
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search results by a starting parent location.</p></item>
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<item><p>Select <gui>File Type</gui> from the drop-down list to narrow the
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search results based on file type.</p></item>
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<p>Click the <gui>-</gui> button next to any search option to remove
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that option and widen the search results.</p></item>
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<item><p>You can open, copy, delete, or otherwise work with your
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files from the search results, just as you would from any folder
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in the file manager.</p></item>
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<item><p>Click <gui>Search</gui> in the toolbar again to exit the
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search and return to the folder.</p></item>
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<p>Click the <gui>-</gui> button next to any search option to remove that
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option and widen the search results.</p></item>
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<item><p>You can open, copy, delete, or otherwise work with your files from
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the search results, just as you would from any folder in the file manager.
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<item><p>Click <gui>Search</gui> in the toolbar again to exit the search
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and return to the folder.</p></item>
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<p>If you perform certain searches often, you can save them to
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<title>Save a search</title>
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<item><p>Start a search as above.</p></item>
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<item><p>When you're happy with the search parameters, click
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<guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>Save Search As</gui></guiseq>.</p></item>
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<item><p>Give the search a name and click <gui>Save</gui>. If you
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like, select a different folder to save the search in. When you
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view that folder, you will see your saved search as an orange
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folder icon with a magnifying glass on it.</p></item>
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<item><p>When you're happy with the search parameters, click <guiseq><gui>
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File</gui><gui>Save Search As</gui></guiseq>.</p></item>
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<item><p>Give the search a name and click <gui>Save</gui>. If you like,
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select a different folder to save the search in. When you view that folder,
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you will see your saved search as an orange folder icon with a magnifying
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glass on it.</p></item>
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<p>To remove the search file when you are done with it, simply
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<link xref="files-delete">delete</link> the search as you would any other
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file. When you delete a saved search, it does not delete the files that
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the search matched.</p>
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<link xref="files-delete">delete</link> the search as you would any other
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file. When you delete a saved search, it does not delete the files that the
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