File Explorer search Current folder option doesn't work

Anonymous
2020-04-21T13:54:00+00:00

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.

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Files, folders, and storage

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-04-12T00:38:30+00:00

    All that is very fine and nice. But the main issue remains that that WORKAROUND provided is nowhere close to an official SOLUTION from the guys that CREATED THE ISSUE in the first place. Yes, I'm talking to you, Microsoft.

    And I suspect that if anyone of us performed like this in our respective jobs, we'd be fired in much, much less time than the FIVE YEARS it's been like this.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-04-11T16:07:01+00:00

    THANK YOU, Method #1 worked and fixed the search failure issue for me. Now I can search inside specific folders and actually get results and find specific docs I am looking for. Finding this answer took nearly 20 minutes of browsing the forums and web links - seems a lot of people are looking for THIS answer going as far back as 2016, but their posts still say "answer needed". I also noticed a lot of "some people just don't like change" replies in those discussions on this exact topic, but "search not working" is not a change issue, its a "failure to perform" its duty issue. I hope those looking for their answer end up on this page like I did. I wrote the methods down in case it happens again.

    For me, this search issue only started after the recent update. My system is:

    Windows 10, v 20H2

    (OS Build 19042.867)

    Reason I ended up here: I have a "Lyrics" folder full of Word docs titled "LYRICS (and the song title)". Today, April 11th, 2021, I used the search field in this folder to find specific song, but while every Word doc starts with "LYRIC" , when I type the title I am looking for, that I can clearly see in the folder, or even type just the word "Lyric" into said search field it says "No items match your search" while I am looking at dozens of docs titled "Lyrics _ _ _ _ ".

    Now that I followed Method 1, above, it works fine. Thanks again.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-03-25T10:17:00+00:00

    A basic feature every OS has it working since their beta versions... MS can't solve it in a freaking whole YEAR.

    This is beyond pathetic.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-01-15T17:49:29+00:00

    See my post on about page 4 where I describe making a button that you can click before entering the search criteria, which will force the search to ignore subfolders.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-01-15T04:03:57+00:00

    Thank you MatthewSibley, workaround is OK, would be nice if it was fixed

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