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irish
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getting Everything to find two different phrases

Post by irish »

Is this correct
"paint it black" "let it be"
salazor
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Re: getting Everything to find two different phrases

Post by salazor »

Try this:

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"paint it black"|"let it be"
irish
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Re: getting Everything to find two different phrases

Post by irish »

that worked
Thanks a bunch
irish
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Re: getting Everything to find two different phrases

Post by irish »

thank you. that worked
Using the same method. i wanted to find two different phrases in two differnt text files
in the same folder using advanced search and ticking "match whole words"
So I typed
"summer with monika"|"lthe snowman killing"
and indicated the folder to look in.
Once again, i've obviously done something wrong.
Can you help again, please?
it reads like this
wholeword:content:""quot:"summer with monika"quot:"|"quot:"lthe snowman killing"quot:""
void
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Re: getting Everything to find two different phrases

Post by void »

Please try searching for:
wholeword:content:quot:"summer with monika"quot: | wholeword:content:quot:"lthe snowman killing"quot:
irish
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Re: getting Everything to find two different phrases

Post by irish »

thanks very much
I'm not quite sure what you have done there,
can you tell me how i would enter that into the advanced search box, please?
i tried it like this from the main window
"g:\not shared\lists from old soldier\" wholeword:content:quot:"summer with monika"quot: | wholeword:content:quot:"lthe snowman killing"quot:
void
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Re: getting Everything to find two different phrases

Post by void »

I've used a | to split the search into two search terms, the | here means OR.
the search is now parsed as:
content search 1 OR content search 2
can you tell me how i would enter that into the advanced search box, please?
This is too advanced for the advanced search.
The advanced search window will only let you search for one phrase in file's contents.
"g:\not shared\lists from old soldier\" wholeword:content:quot:"summer with monika"quot: | wholeword:content:quot:"lthe snowman killing"quot:
Did Everything find any results?
irish
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Re: getting Everything to find two different phrases

Post by irish »

Thanks for explaing.
In answer to your question, it didn;t.
void
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Re: getting Everything to find two different phrases

Post by void »

Please try without the quot: macros

"g:\not shared\lists from old soldier\" wholeword:content:"summer with monika" | wholeword:content:"the snowman killing"
therube
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Re: getting Everything to find two different phrases

Post by therube »

This is working on my end:

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"C:\USR\therube\P\2P\X\" < wholeword:content:"gunthrop" | wholeword:content:"tyquan" >
Note the angle bracket, <>.
Without them it would search ..\2P\X\ for "gunthrop", but the (but the what ? not sure ? the Everything ?) for "tyquan".

Likewise:

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"C:\USR\therube\P\2P\X\" <wholeword:content:"joy gunthrop" | wholeword:content:"tyquan brail">
Also, "joy gunthrop" & "tyquan brail" need to be consecutive words with a space between, as written.
irish
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Re: getting Everything to find two different phrases

Post by irish »

Wow, it worked.
Thanks again for taking the time to help me out.
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