File Explorer search Current folder option doesn't work

My problem persists!

Check the answer from MatthewSibley , He found a workaround where you have to click on the blue arrow before you switch to current folder. It is a windows error. But this is how i do it now.

Windows 10 Home Edition Build 19041  (update # 2004) - really exasperated this search problem in File Explorer.

Here's my 1-click workaround:

1. First of all, add the "Current folder" button/option from the "Search" tab to the "Quick Access" menu by doing the following:

• Start a search as you normally would by typing something into the "search" box on the top right of File Explorer and then press Enter.
• When the "Search" tab appears, which IMHO is the whole root of the searching problem in File Explorer anyway - the tab should be visible BEFORE executing a search, right-click the "Current folder" icon/option in the "Search" tab and then select "Add to Quick Access Toolbar".  If that option is grayed out then it has already been added to the Quick Access Toolbar and you will need to hover over the icons in the File Explorer Title Bar until you find the one that says, "Current Folder   Search only in the selected folder, not in any subfolders."

2. With the "Current Folder search ...." icon added into the quick access title bar it becomes easier to perform a search in just the current folder:

• Navigate to a folder you want to search.  (For me, I always do one-click on the left navigation pane to select a drive, and then multiple double-clicks in the right-hand folder/file pane to navigate to a subfolder.)
• **Click the "Current Folder  search" icon that you added to the quick access bar.**It may appear that nothing happened, but upon closer inspection you may see a light blue box around it with some shading.  If you click it again, the box and shading should go away.  These changes may be more visible if your title background color is something other than medium blue or if you switch to another app momentarily. 

Note: this "quick access" toggle button has weird behavior, just like two separate icons/buttons labeled "Current folder" and "All subfolders" in the Search Tools tab -- toggling it while the "Search Tools" tab is open and then pressing F5 or clicking the refresh (clock-wise arrow) button may or may not perform the search you want.  

• Type into the search box on the top right and press ENTERor click an item in the dropdown box, if the desired term appears in the dropdown!   

Viola - search results as intended - current folder only, and didn't have to wait for search to complete.   

Why didn't MS think of asking user how to perform the search, BEFORE doing the search?   Also, why not just remember if user typically  searches "Current folder only" or "All subfolders?"

I think for now on I am going to always make sure to look at the "Folder" column of the returned results to make sure everything is just from the one folder.

GREAT !!!!!!

I've been having this problem and others for a year..ish.  It seems to me there is something messed up with the some of the context menus in file explorer, some of the advice here indicates that to me as well.  Clicking the "current folder" button should append the 'folderpath:...." to the search string and it just does not.  When I ran into a similar context menu problem (file explorer would not pop up the CD context menu when a CD was in the drive (which was an easy way to create an .iso) I looked around the internet and eventually found some shady looking registry edit that got it working...sort of.  I have to wonder if something similar would work here, and what the underlying thing is that's broken to make these context options not work as intended.     Thanks for some of the advice in this thread though!