Re: windows explorer search function

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"shakey" <NOONE@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:53:28 -0800, "shakey" <NOONE@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Why is it that when I use windows explorer SEARCH for a one of a kind
file
name such as "life
policies" I find multiple duplicated locations in results such as these
four--
C:\Documents and settings\me\my documents
C:\Documents and settings\me\my documents
C:\Documents and settings\me\my documents
and
my documents



Those four? The first three have identical names.


All have same name, date, rev, etc. and are the same. Am I somehow
multi-filing them?
My concern is waste of disk space.


It's hard to understand exactly what you mean, but almost certainly
you're just seeing multiple references to the same files and there is
no duplication or waste of disk space.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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Thank you Ken I really appreciate the reply. Yes the first three have
identical names and the fourth is also the same file. All exactly as show
in the directory after a search is run. Is it normal for windows explorer
to list the same file more than once after a search?

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It depends on the file names that were found, too - you only talk about
"duplicated locations". In your posts you seem to possibly be confusing the
terms "file" and "folder" - eg it's unlikely you have a file called "my
documents".

If you typed

life policies

in the search criteria and have, say, files called

My Life Policies list.xls
Life Policies I know and love.doc
Those life policies' screenshots.jpg

all in your "Me" My Documents folder, then the search will find all three
and in the "In Folder" column in the Search Results there will be (at least)
three results for "C:\Documents and settings\me\my documents" - along with
three *different* file names in the "Name" column. What else would one
expect?

The best thing is just to open Windows Explorer, browse to C:\Documents and
settings\me\my documents and satisfy yourself - although Windows won't allow
you to have distinct files with the same name (and extension) in the same
folder, so the "worst" you'll find is files that all have the test "life
policies" in their names.

If you have files with the same name in different *folders*, then the danger
(or worry) isn't so much wasting disk space as confusion as to which file
relates to what or, if they're copies, which is the latest version.


.

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