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1st, I want to cover what this question is not about. There are 100's of articles that talk about how to search for folders with dots within their names. This is not the question. This is about searching for files within a folder that has dots in its name.

Say I have a folder

c:\public\dev\process.ui.help\

I have another folder

c:\public\processuihelp\

I have exact copies of the same files in each folder

help.csproj   
help.cs

help.cs has a line in it like

//find this - SearchForMe

if in explorer and I search "SearchForMe", then explorer only returns help.cs from the 2nd folder but not the first. It may be treating the dotted folder names as extensions.

Edit: in the index options, any folders with extensions are automatically being de-selected. If I reselect them and save, they are de-selected again.

Is there any work-around or alternative search?

Why? : In this large development project (10's of projects, 1000's of folders), I am using dotted folder names to organise namespaces without creating a deep hierarchy of folders. Windows allows dotted folder names.

MarkD
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I haven't searched with built-in windows searches for a long time. I just replicated your situation and tried searching with "Search My Files" and with "Everything", two tools I use frequently and both found both files immediately. Maybe give either or both of them a try and see if they do what you are looking for. Edit: Everything is by voidtools, search my files by nirsoft, both are freeware.

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  • thank you for the referral and testing them out on my scenario. Will give those a try as an alternative – MarkD Nov 25 '22 at 20:36