Windows 10 1909 File Explorer Search issue

What happened to explorer search? Unable to paste the copied

file name to search for as it was in previous versions. I have to

manually type the file name and press Enter. This is terrible! Why does Microsoft only make things worse with each new version ?!

Not a Microsoft Adivor, but I am a long-term computer user. There is a workaround that might help at least some of you who are struggling until they fix it. It's how I've had to do a bunch of searches since this problem started, and that's go back to DOS :p. Searching within a file is much more complicated, but searching for a specific filename or filetype, even down the tree, is covered.

Open a Command Prompt - 

Right click the Windows sign

Select Run

Type "cmd" (without the quotes) in the box.

Some things you might find handy In the Command Prompt (and you can always search the Web for more)-

Type: 

cd " then paste the path from the Windows Explorer address bar and close the " - The prompt will go to that folder.

dir "filename.extension" - Use the quotes to protect against spaces in the filename being misinterpreted.

dir "*file*" - You can also use * for wildcard searches

dir "*.jpg"

dir "*.jpg" /s - Search down the directory tree from where you started.

dir "*.jpg" /s >mysearch.log - Puts the results into a text file if more than a few are expected so they don't scroll offscreen.

Ideally, they'll fix it soon, but if rolling back isn't an option, I hope this helps. Between the logging and the speed, I used these before the bug, so had them to fall back on. Copy and paste with both click and Control-V still work in DOS.

Cheers,

Margaret

This needs to be fixed ASAP. We are having major issues at work, tickets are coming in by the thousands. Never knew how much people used the search. They used it all the time to search shared drives will millions of files all the time. Microsoft please fix this ASAP it is flooding our service desk with too many complaints and we don't have the man-power to switch everyone back to 1903. We are testing 3rd party portable replacement software to work-around this problem. What PITA!!! This has cause so many problems we have a $400,000 project put on hold to deal with all the issues. CEO is pissed!!! Again FIX this ASAP!!!

My grumble is that there's no way that I could change back to a "normal" file list after executing a search.

I think I may have solved that by opening a new window from the corrupted one and closing the original sick one with the searches.  Still a nusciance.

Restarting file explorer is crazy as I have at least two open windows and have to get back to where I was in the tree in each of them.

>>  Also, when using Control-V to paste, File Explorer search box stops working after a few searches (you can't even access it to type).

The workaround for that is to restart Windows Explorer from Task Manager.

Same problem here. But you can still use Ctrl-V to paste into search. Although I keep having to go into Task Manager and restart Windows Explorer periodically. This is a really annoying Version 1909 bug.