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loganz · Joined: 13 Nov 2008 Posts: 8

I must be thick, i cannot get the date functions on pfilesearch 1.9 to work for me. Anytime I select the date functions it finds no files??

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5241 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Do you run Pfilesearch, searches and nothing happens? OR, are you running Pfind, searches and get message 'no files found' ???

Sigmund

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5241 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Version 1.10
See main post

changelog 1.10
- Some code cleanup
- Translation of search-button (thanks to esmourguit)
- Parameter: -d [DIR] (thanks to HairyWill)

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5241 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Version 1.11
See main post

- Pfilesearch can now be used as a standalone file-finder OR as a engine for other guis.
- Bugfix: -d switch didnt handle spaces in directory name. (thanks to HairyWill)

disciple · Posted: Tue 06 Jan 2009, 16:24 Post subject:

Minor bug in the new standalone feature: the results window shows a blank list, I think if the number of hits exceeds the limit or something. The terminal says

disciple · Posted: Wed 07 Jan 2009, 01:45 Post subject:

Also, if no files are found it displays a blank results window after the dialogue saying no files were found.
Personally I don't think these are important, because I don't think most people would want to use pfilesearch by itself at the moment as it only lists results as text... if only pfind had a --advanced option so we could launch it straight to the advanced search Smile

disciple · Posted: Wed 07 Jan 2009, 01:46 Post subject:

Oh - I fount another bug: pfilesearch doesn't work properly if there is a "-" in the search text.

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5241 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Alister
Thanks for testing
I can't reproduce the bug when you use '-' in search text. Can you be more specific. It seems to work here.

Sigmund

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5241 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

I also tested with a global search and got 126000 hits. They all showed up in the result window ???????

Sigmund

disciple · Posted: Wed 07 Jan 2009, 08:23 Post subject:

OK, my guess about it being to do with the number of hits must be wrong. I just tested again, and as an example, if I search for files with mp3 in their name on /mnt/sdb1, I get that error, but if I search for them in /mnt/sdb1/music, then it works... does the error message mean anything to you? Maybe it could be caused by invalid filenames or something weird...

disciple · Posted: Wed 07 Jan 2009, 08:29 Post subject:

BTW this works in that drive - maybe when I get a chance I'll have to look at the find options pfilesearch uses and see if they work

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5241 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Version 1.12
See main post

changelog
- Japanese translation. (thanks to himajin)
- Spanish translation (thanks to Proudog)
- Bugfix: Don't show result-window if no hits. (thanks to disciple)

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5241 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Version 1.13
See main post

Changelog
- Autodetection of all languages in ISO 639-1.
- Chinese translation. (thanks to sasaqqdan)
- Bugfix: support of pfind (4.8 ) -a option

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5241 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Version 1.14

changelog
- Bugfix: Find textstring containing 'A' 'N' or 'D'. (thanks to BarryK)

disciple · Posted: Mon 29 Jun 2009, 05:48 Post subject:

That sounds familiar... I wonder if it was also once a bug in pfind that got fixed before you invented pfilesearch Smile

Re: the problem searching for text in files for a string that includes a - character:
If I search for -hell or -hello I get false hits. And I notice if I search for -spitfire I see error messages in the terminal from grep, saying that p is not a valid switch. So I suspect it is a problem with quoting the -