Today at least. I have permanently disabled Search Indexing. That could be helping here. Also, here are my search options: For those of you for whom it is not finding the expected file s Can you do the above experiment with a simple text file and report whether the search turns the file up in both cases.
Wednesday, February 24, PM. I want to be a MVP! Computer Technician. Proposed as answer by banmenau Tuesday, February 23, PM. Changing the option to "always search" did not help in any way relative to the indexed search. I can not list even the file names if the search is initiated at a different directory level than the directory where the zipped files are located. If the search is initiated in the directory, where the compressed files reside, then the file names are listed but NOT the contents.
When I look at the file search filters in Advanced Indexing Options , I see only a "plain text filter" for zipped files. Sorry, the above solution does not work. Thursday, February 25, AM. Any reason you haven't tried disabling indexing? Sorry, I should have been clearer. Disabling index did not give me different results compared to enabling index.
Both behaved exactly same except for performance issue. Saturday, February 27, AM. Are you searching using the following syntax? Try finding that documented.
I've just tested it again. Not only can I find files by name inside zip archives, but also by contents inside them. Do you have any software on your system, such as WinZip, that does special things with zip files? I do not. Irrespective of the syntax, the result is the same. In no case, it is finding the contents. And in my system, I am not able to select any alternates to ""plain text filter" for zipped files even after enabling indexing of contents.
Sunday, February 28, AM. Good point I have Windows 7 Ultimate, you have Home Premium. You don't suppose they chose THAT as a differentiator Where are you finding these filters e. Is that something to do with indexing? By the way, I just embedded a. However, at one point while I was trying to enter the search term Explorer became unresponsive for a long while. Why does Microsoft think it needs to take off on the search before the user has finished entering what to search for?
Does anyone besides me find that irritating? And yes, it was just as irritating when I had indexing on, except at that time it would return bogus results as well, tending to make the more important problem inaccurate results the focus of one's frustration.
I sound like I'm really promoting Windows Search, but rest assured I'm not. I've got Word. Do you need to delete each unzipped file after saving the string from it to export. Also, delete dos tag from your question, and add Cmd related. The biggest thing I'm getting caught up in is writing a for statement that will go into each unzipped folder, search the string, and save the export. Is it okey to just extract the string instead of deleting all the lines around that string? Patrick see edit — Jonas.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. This is an edit: This script should do what you want. Only Change sourcedir and mystring variables. Improve this answer. Jonas Jonas 1 1 gold badge 12 12 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.
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