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moderated Re: in win10 in a folder how do you tell Win10 to delete only all the files that have a same particular extension but not the other files in that folder that have different extensions?

David Bailes
 

Hi Brian and others,
another workaround to the broken "current folder" functionality is to specify the folder by adding an additional search term. For example, to search for mp3 files in your documents folder, you could use the search terms:
*.mp3 in:documents .
An alternative to in:documents is foldername:documents, but it takes longer to type.

David.


On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 05:22 PM, Brian Vogel wrote:
David,

             That filtering option is a great workaround for the broken "Current Folder" functionality.  Thanks for giving it.   Anything is easier than manually going through a list of potentially hundreds of files if you really just want to select all that have a given extension, whether for deleting, cutting, copying, etc.
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Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 1909, Build 18363  

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