Click this and choose a place to save the search. Save your searchesĪlso on the Search tab is Save search.
Right click a file and select Open file location on the menu that is displayed, or select a file, select the Search tab and click Open file location. You can go ahead and double click a file to open it, but there is a Folder column in Details view that shows the folder where each file is stored. Here I selected Details view and clicked the Date modified column header to sort by date (click again to flip the sort by ascending or descending values). When it has finished, go to Explorer’s View tab and select your favourite view. Windows search isn’t fast when the whole disk is being searched, so give it a minute or two. This is a great way to show your most recent files. Click one to quickly find files in that date range. Below are some predefined date ranges like Today, Yesterday, Last Week and so on. Go to a folder you want to search, such as C:\Users\YourName to search everywhere you are likely to have saved files, or narrow it down to a specific folder such as your Documents folder, Pictures folder or OneDrive folder.Ĭlick in the search box in the top right corner and type date: The colon triggers a calendar display and you can select any specific day. Open an Explorer window by clicking the icon in the taskbar. It is a useful trick to learn and it makes finding files much easier than browsing in Explorer or searching for filenames, that is if you can remember what file you are looking for. It isn’t specific to any type of file and it can be used to find the most recent files in any folder and its subfolders. This works in all versions of Windows – 7, 8 and 10. We can try to organise documents and photos into subfolders by date, occasion, subject or whatever is most useful, but how do you view the most recently added files?Įxplorer can find the latest documents, photos, or other files very easily and it uses a feature you may not have discovered – date searches. Photos on your phone are synced to the cloud and then synced back to the PC, so where are the photos you took last week? There are similar problems with the Pictures folders and there are multiple ones and libraries. Now which one did I save that document in that I created last week? There are also online drives like OneDrive, Dropbox and Google Drive that may be synced with the computer.
However, it becomes complicated when you add in the Public folders and libraries, which are groups of folders. One way to avoid losing files is to keep them organised and to use folders like the Documents folder, the Pictures folder and so on. Here’s how to show the most recent files in Explorer. Sometimes you know you created a document, photo or some other file on your Windows PC, but you cannot remember where you put it.
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