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Good morning,
I am having a problem with my Windows 10 file explorer searches. When I search for an item, it brings back results in for the current folder and all subfolders as it should. When I click on "Current folder" in the search tools, however, it does nothing. I still see all results from all subfolders.
I believe this problem started after installing NVIDIA GeForce Experience and the latest NVIDIA driver. I tried to do a system restore, but it seems I dont have any restore points. That is another problem I will have to fix.
Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
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I am not a pro and have the same issue. After reading all the responses on this page, I did not bother trying any of those "Methods" that Microsoft guy came up with. Just a quick goofy band-aid is to use the "Group-by" under "View" and apply grouping by "folder". You can collapse all those subfolders, if need be.
I have been having this same issue for the past week or so. In that time TWO Windows updates were PUSHED out. I am currently running Version 2004. This is definitely NEW behavior on my computer since the first of these two Windows updates was installed.
I have tried BOTH of your recommended fixes and they do nothing. I have also rebuilt the file indexing twice. I thought it was working after I did that the first time but less than an hour later it was back to NOT working again. The indexing takes a very very long time so doing it over and over is not really a practical solution.
Is anyone actually looking into the root cause on this?
Hmm... From what I can tell, when you search for an item, it shows results from all subfolders as usual. But, if you click on the arrow next to the search box after searching for an item, and then click on "current folder", the results from the current folder are shown.
Not sure if this is an intentional bug or something I discovered recently, but I hope this problem gets fixed.
Matthew Sibley, thank you so much for posting this. I just tried your suggestion, and it worked like a charm. It is certainly a bug that this doesn't work the way it is intended to, but at least now we all know a way to force it to work. I don't know how you discovered this, but I sure am glad you did. Certainly, everyone else who has posted on here will be singing your praises also.
I will leave this post open and unsolved, because this is not a solution, but a work around. I hope Microsoft will work to correct the actual problem. Aditya_Roy... Are you still following this post?
Matthew, you figured out the fix!!! Or at least an easy workaround to make it work! Well done! Finally, I can do my searches again like I used to do so thank you for figuring this out. I don't think this is the way it was intended to be done but it's an easy additional one step process so who cares! I hope everyone who has been annoyed by this issue for the past year or so is able to read this for the workaround solution. Thanks again for the post!
