Home Backup Drive User Guide

Clickfree C2N Home Backup Drive User Guide Browsing, Searching & Viewing My Files (HD)

♦ To search for files:

1. Use the combination of File Type, File Date, and File Name that you think should

match the file(s) you want to find:

These selections are combined so that only files that match all of them are found – in

this case only files in the category

All Others, and created/last changed within the

last year, and with names ending with ‘tmp’.

•

File Type – select a category, or ‘Any’ if you want all categories to be searched

•

File Date – select the time period within which the files were created or changed,

or ‘All’ if you want the date to be ignored

•

File Name – type a “mask” to select files. A blank file name matches all files.

Type whatever you can remember of the file names you want to find, and substitute:

• ? for one character, meaning that character can be anything at all

• * for any number of characters, meaning these characters can be anything

at all

For example (assuming that the

File Type and File Date selections you made would

include them):

• To find all files whose names begin with ‘08Dec’, type ‘08Dec*’ – this will

find 08Dec_LetterToMary.doc, but not 2008DecemberExpenses.xls

• To find all files with ‘Dec’ anywhere in the name, type ‘*Dec*’ – this will

find 08Dec_LetterToMary.doc, 2008DecemberExpenses.xls, etc

• To find all files with ‘n’ as the second character of the name, type ‘?n*’ –

this will find IndiaSlides.ppt, inukshuk5.jpg, but not 5inukshuk.jpg

• To find all files of type ‘doc’ or ‘docx’, type ‘*.doc*’ – of course, this will

also find any files that have type ‘doczzz’ as well

2. Click

Search.