Searching for substrings in filenames

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Now, I tried something that I thought would be a blaze in any file browser, and not even worth mentioning in DTTG.

But I simply cannot get it to work, in an extent that I start to believe that it’s not even possible.

I have a group with lots and lots of files, all containing some timestamp in the filename.

I just wanted to select for each year, like 2016, in this group - for filenames - so that I can add a tag for this year.

Whatever I tried, it does not work.

Searching for 2016 shows files that have no 2016 in their name, but just contain 2016.

name:*2016* is not possible at all, only prefixes can be searched for.

filename:*2016* seems to behave the same, but there is no example for this.
Same with “filename *2016*” or just “filename 2016” or “filename:2016”.

Any idea how to solve this problem?
Is it possible at all?

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name: should be used as you’re searching names.
2016 should work as the colon means matches, i.e., substrings are matched.
So name:2016, e.g, …

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Many thanks, but that does not select anything for any year or other substring…

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We are making some modifications for the next release that will improve this behavior. Stay tuned and thanks for your patience.

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Many thanks :sweat_smile::hugs:

So you are already using a beta?

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I am always running public and beta releases of all our apps. It’s my job :thinking: :wink:

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That was to be expected :sweat_smile:

I just was wondering if you see any such search results in the public release or have the same effect like me.

My beta is again expired …

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The same results you’re seeing.

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