Windows 10: Why when searching about a folder name that contains Hyphen-Minus in File Explorer it says...

Hello everyone,I have a folder called "Test folder" as it appears in the following path: D:\Test folderand in Test folder i have other folder called "welcome - welcome", notice that the name contains Hyphen-Minus. See the following image:now, when I copy the name of the folder as it shows in the following image:and pasting the name in the searching bar as it shows in the following image:Then, it shows "No items match your search" as it shown in the following image, while I'm sure that the searching folder is exist, why that happens?

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Editing folder names from within Explorer search results

I wanted to remove a character string from the names of all subfolders of a given folder. In an Explorer window, I entered the character string in the search box and set it running. Immediately, I got a list of all folder names containing that string. The problem: The folder names in the search results list allow you to edit them, just as in a straight Explorer directory; but as I edit the names of folders they disappear from the results list as I'd hope (because the name no longer contains the search string). However, a moment later, the folder reappears at the top of the list, in its pre-edited form. BUT, if I view the folder in a straight Explorer (outside of a search), the name shows correctly as edited. If I go back to an Explorer search and re-search the string, all the fully edited folders still appear, *in their pre-edited form*. So, I can now see these folders with their old or new names, depending on whether I browse the containing folder or browse search results.

The above happened on a OneDrive folder. I tried to reproduce it on a local folder and found a DIFFERENT phenomenon: Searching folders for a string brings up TWO results for each qualifying folder. In each pair of listings for a given folder in the search results, editing the name of one of them changes the folder name in a straight Explorer window. Editing the other version has no effect on the actual folder name. And there doesn't appear to be a way to know which is which. The folders in the search results behave as you'd expect: They disappear when edited because they no longer qualify for the search results.

Is this a known issue, or possibly related to one?

 

Windows 10 search for a specific folder name and file name

Carlos: Thanks for your reply. What you suggest is what I have been doing. I search for folders with a specific name and get a list. Then I have to search each folder for a specific file. So it's a two step search and that's what I was trying to avoid.

I assume there are applications out there that allow for an "AND" search in Windows. I'll try that approach.

Thanks, again.

 

Search syntax for "folders containing specific file types" ??

Thanks Lance. Most of that I know already. I was asking for syntax to specifically find folders containing a certain file type i.e. photos.

For instance a search string that would in effect request: "List all folders on drive D containing photos" or "List all folders on drive D containing videos" and have just the folders containing those files, not the files themselves, listed in the results.