Search my phone for files

How to Find and Copy a File Path on your iPhone Each file in iCloud Drive has a specific file path that can be used to specify exactly where a file is located. To get the file path on your iPhone or iPad: Open the Files app. Find the specific file that you want to get the file path for. Long-press on a file and tap Get Info. This should open a page with all the file information, including created and last opened dates.

Long press the section called Where which is the file path and tap Copy. The Google search on Android phones is still limited to only apps and contacts. It takes an additional tap to limit the search to the local device. AndroSearch is an amazing app which makes searching through your phone incredibly quick and easy.

After you install and run the app for the first time, it will take some time to create an index of files you have on your device. It will search every nook and corner of your phone for files, contacts, apps along with their metadata, therefore this step may take some time.

Once indexing is completed, you can start searching for anything on your Android. On your initial searches itself, you will notice that the app searches not only for the file names, but also for the metadata. In the settings, you can enable Fuzzy search and forget about typos and spelling mistakes. With this enabled, a contact name Ashish could be looked up by the keyword Asish. On the home screen, you get the list of recently modified files and recently installed apps.

Just like the Quick Launch feature you have in Windows Whenever you search with a keyword, it shows up matching contacts, apps and then the files you have saved on the micro SD card. With Windows wildcard parser in previous versions, you simply got the list of all files. You can now exclude files by using wildcards list. You have to select this option from the combo-box, because the default option is to exclude files by extension.

Fixed issue: The properties and the other windows opened in the wrong monitor, on multi-monitors system. Fixed bug: SearchMyFiles missed the last non-duplicate file in non-duplicates search mode. When you use the SaveDirect mode, the details of found files are saved directly to the disk, without loading them into the memory first. This means that you can save a list with large amount of files into your disk without any memory problem, as long as you have enough disk space to store the saved file.

The drawback of this mode: You cannot sort the files list according to the name or any other column. The details of files are simply saved in the order that SearchMyFiles found them. You have to remove the context menu and then add it again in order to update the context menu with this fix Version 2. If it's turned on, the Search Options window is closed when you press the 'Start Search' button.

You can watch the summary information for the specified folder only or for the specified folder and all its subfolders. Version 1. The number of files that you can open at once is limited to 20, because opening many files at once may hang your entire system Version 1.

You can use this column to easily delete duplicate files found by the duplicate search mode: Simply click the 'Duplicate Group' header to sort the files list by duplicate groups, and then you can leave the first group group number 1 and delete the other groups 2 and above.

Added x64 version, for making proper search under system32 directory of Windows. This feature can be useful if your want to locate a file by its summary information, like Title, Subject, Author, Keywords, and so on When this option is turned on, the column names are added as the first line when you export to csv or tab-delimited file. When it's turned on, 'SearchMyFiles' menu item is added to the context menu of any folder in Windows Explorer.

Choosing this menu item opens SearchMyFiles with selected folder as the base folder of the search. When saving the search result to html, the files are now displayed as links that open the specified file. For example: SearchMyFiles. The 'Browse' button of 'Base Folders' and 'Excluded Folders' in the 'Search Options' window now allows you to add more than one folder, when one or more folders are already listed in the text-box. Added 'File Position' and 'File Content' columns for file content search.

When this option is checked, double-clicking a file will open it with the default program, like double-click in Explorer. In the search option of file times, added 'Today' and 'Since Last Reboot'. Added most-recently-used MRU list in combo-boxes of the search dialog-box. SearchMyFiles automatically remembers the last 10 strings that you used for every field, and allows you to easily select them from the Combo-Box.

If you don't want that your last search strings will be saved in the. Fixed the 'Subfolders Wildcard' issue according to users request. Starting from this version, SearchMyFiles scan all subfolders, even if they don't match the wildcard, but the actual file search is only made for subfolders that match the subfolders wildcard.

Added 'Select File In Explorer' option. Added 'Explorer Copy' option - Allows you to copy the selected files and then paste them inside a folder of Windows Explorer. Added 'Open With' option. Added option to choose the subfolders depth to scan. Future Versions The following features might be added in future versions, according to user requests and my own ideas: Add Explorer-like context-menu that will allow to do some actions on the files appeared in the search result.

Search files by alternate stream data. Search the content of files by regular expressions. An option to search file names by regular expression, as alternative for wildcard search. In order to start using it, simply run the executable file - SearchMyFiles. Select the base folders or drives that you want to search, the wildcard, and other search option that you need. After choosing the right search option, click 'Ok' in order to start the search. While in search process, the found files will be displayed in the main window.

If you want to stop the search, you can simply click the 'Stop' menu. You can also select a single file and open it with the default program by using the 'Open Selected File' option. Search Options Here's a small explanation about all available search options: Base Folder: Specifies the folder that you want to scan. You can also specify multiple folders, delimited by semicolon.