| How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | greenspade | 5/3/12 2:40 PM | Any Help would be greatly appreciated. |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | Jhaus | 5/3/12 6:11 PM | Also wish Drive had the ability to search within a folder (including sub-folders too). Was able to (sort of) work around this: (i) click on "Settings" (the gear icon) and (ii) select "Temporarily use the classic look". |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | greenspade | 5/4/12 12:32 PM | Jhaus,Thanks for the tip on the Classic Look Setting. Hopefully this feature will be added to the standard offering. |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | Peter Bergström, Anoit | 7/26/12 6:52 AM | Need this to badly. And the ability to search in subfolder to. |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | Matt-GDrive User | 7/26/12 12:49 PM | Does Google have any plans to add this feature? |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | Xavier83 | 9/27/12 11:13 PM | I do not have a solution other than going to the old interface, but I also think that it is an important feature. Is there a place where we can vote for this feature ?It would be a step back if we hadn't have it any more in the future!!! |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | tsolignani | 9/28/12 12:47 AM | Some workaround: if you are on a mac you can get to the folder within which you want to costrain your search and then use spotlight. On windows there should be some similar tools. This is the way I do it actually, but I guess that they should add to |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | andrewandrewandrew | 10/4/12 7:26 AM | Likewise. That's a stupid omission Google! Glad I can go back to the old interface still. |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | crowleye | 10/17/12 6:16 AM | Me too! We have a wiki we'd like to put into google docs, but if we can't restrict the search to just that folder it will find so much stuff as to be unusable. We're even willing to overlook google's inablility to search for non-word text strings, bu |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | sunyataivarupam | 10/20/12 1:37 PM | Elizcsps: I just tried using the "in:label" operator you just mentioned to search Drive, and it actually seems to have worked! Could this feature have been added recently but not announced or documented? Is anyone else noticing this working? |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | Matt-GDrive User | 10/21/12 3:27 PM | Suny - Can you please explain how this "operator" works and provide an example? Thanks! |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | crowleye | 10/22/12 9:21 AM | I am trying to reproduce what you say works for you, but I cannot get it to work.In my docs/drive I have a label named 'wireless' with some documents in it, one of which has the word 'senior' in it.If I search all my docs for 'senior', I get lots of |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | Matt-GDrive User | 10/22/12 9:32 AM | I had the same problem. Suny - can you please explain? Thanks. |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | TheMathGuy | 10/24/12 12:28 AM | A clumsy workaround which works for me (under Firefox): - Click on folder so you are only viewing within the folder you want to search - The URL in your browser location bar will change to something like: https://drive.google.com/?ui=4&authuser=0#fo |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | TheMathGuy | 10/24/12 1:13 AM | Security note: about bookmarking the URL --- I cannot know exactly what are the security implications of revealing that long folder ID to a non-trusted party, so I recommend only bookmarking those kinds of URLS on non-shared computers. |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | crowleye | 10/24/12 5:47 AM | Wow. I have to hand it to you, this actually works. You can't actually see the content of the folder before you enter the search, so you have to be flipping back and forth between tabs, but it is possible to do this. I'll definitely post this in our |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | crowleye | 10/24/12 6:03 AM | P.S. it works in Chrome 22.0.1229.94, too! |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | fatpug | 10/24/12 2:19 PM | This still doesn't search inside the sub-folders.To search within a folder, it's easier to temporarily switch back to the old layout by clicking the setting button. When using the old layout, search will default to the current folder only. No need fo |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | TheMathGuy | 10/25/12 1:40 PM | Personally, I don't expect the possibility to temporarily switch back to the old layout to remain available indefinitely. Hopefully Google will understand the importance of this feature and add it properly to the "new look". It was important for me t |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | Matt-GDrive User | 10/25/12 6:52 PM | Personally, this would be a reason to cancel my Google Drive subscription and move to Dropbox or Box. |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | crowleye | 10/26/12 9:29 AM | Well, we're committed to Gmail so we might as well take advantage of the rest of the apps. Actually our goal is to find a new host for our private docuwiki. Initially Google seemed like a good idea and its paid for, but there are problems. You can't |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | rodgersmc | 11/5/12 1:34 PM | +1. I've been missing this feature since the change to the new look and periodically look around for a solution... Still seems to be simplest to switch back to the old way, but like some others I a) don't trust this will stick around forever and b) f |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | Xavier83 | 12/18/12 9:57 AM | Now we cannot switch back to the old inteface any more.Is there a solution in the meanwhile ? |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | Xavier83 | 1/22/13 5:31 AM | I am very surprised that there are not more persons concerned by this issue. I think without the possibility of searching within a folder, folders are almost useless : why should we bother of classifying our documents into folders if we cannot search |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | Jacques Paquin | 1/24/13 10:06 AM | We are looking to do this also.. |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | MCLipsco | 1/25/13 1:44 AM | To be fair: there is not an easy way to do this in Dropbox's web version. It searches ALL of your Dropbox folders. |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | Mark B (AEC) | 2/6/13 10:50 AM | This is a glaring oversight in my opinion. Searching within a specific directory and its subfolders is a de facto standard for any file system regardless of where it is situated; locally or the cloud. |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | Aaron Lewis | 2/9/13 10:41 PM | I need to limit searches to folders and its subfolders too. Also, I wonder why, after installing Drive to my Windows machines, the contents are not indexed, and I cannot use the Windows search to find my info. |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | Olivier Travers | 2/11/13 3:46 AM | This workaround makes sense, since the parent folder ID is exposed in the API:https://developers.google.com/drive/search-parameters It is unfathomable why that functionality is no longer exposed through Google Drive's own web UI though, especially w |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | MCLipsco | 2/12/13 4:02 AM | Ironically, you can search for "folders" themselves via the pulldown search menu in Google Drive. To find the "Articles" folder you can search for "folders named" "Articles" for example... |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | Jay Cohen | 2/12/13 8:31 AM | I can't understand why this functionality is being slowly taken away. In the old version of Google Docs, we were able to search within a specific folder like in gmail. Then I could only search within a folder using the folder view (only allowed me |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | Steve Hanson | 2/12/13 11:31 PM | I wish I had an answer. Please, Google, get this fixed! If I use SkyDrive, my files are indexed on my PC, but the SkyDrive app on my Droid has no search feature (huge oversight by Microsoft). This is one reason I prefer Google Drive, but it REALLY b |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | Olivier Travers | 2/13/13 4:29 AM | The other aggravating thing in the use case described by Steve, is that searching Google Drive from the web is oblivious to the local copy of the files, so you end up downloading Google's copy of a PDF each time you click on a search result. But the |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | Jay Cohen | 2/13/13 7:11 AM | I think that this used to work for me, but I can't seem to get it to work now. Can someone please check to see if this workaround still works. Thanks! |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | Leonard1 | 5/3/13 4:34 AM | The workaround with the URL still works, Jay. HOWEVER, the search parameter (q=dummy in your case) is not allowed to be empty, else it will redirect you to the "normal" URL, and then the search is not limited to the parent folder anymore *sniff*. The |
| Re: How do you limit a search in Google Drive to a particular folder? | Pharisee | 6/5/13 8:48 AM | This is no longer a solution. I can't find the "Temporarily use the classic look" button. It's stupid that Google removed one of the most useful features of GoogleDocs |