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File menu: - Exit - Closes the Search program
Tools menu: - Slide Show - Starts Slide Show program and displays all selected images as a Custom Show - Editor - Opens selected image(s) in to Editor - Profile Switcher - Starts Profile Switcher program and closes Search program
Help menu: - Check for Updates.. - Checks available updates - Viewer Help - Displays this HTML help - About - Opens window showing information about the program

Filename - Specifies the target filename masks, separated by semicolons. Search will find all filenames matching the masks. Wildcard * may be used to represent any group of characters ex. *.jpg;*.gif

Location - Specifies drives or folders where the search is to be conducted, separated by semicolons

Plus - Adds Filename/Location in to list

Minus -  Removes Filename/Location from the list

Include Subfolders - When checked all subfolders of the specified Locations are also searched

Include Images Only - When checked all known image types are only included

Enable Filters - This will show filters box where filters can be entered such as. *.jpg (exludes all jpg files), F:\Test images\*\*.jpg (exludes all jpg files from second level subfolders), ?*\a*.jpg (exludes all a* files ex. atom.jpg file is exluded).

Browse - Browse for new Locations for the Search. Note that Browse will replace the existing contents of Location. To enter multiple locations insert ; after current location and browse next location

Created,Modified,From Date,From Time,To Date & To Time - Filter results by date and time criteria

Size At Least,At Most - Filter results by file size criteria. Note. Set both At Least and At Most to zero to search for files of any size

Attributes(Archive, Readonly, Hidden, Normal, Compressed, Encrypted, Offline, Virtual, Reparse Point, Sparse File, Not Content Indexed) - Filter results by file attributes criteria as follows; checkbox ticked (black), attribute must be set;  checkbox blank, attribute must be unset; checkbox ticked (gray), attribute may be either set or unset

Filter by Rules:

- First field - Specifies EXIF or IPTC parameter ex. ISO Speed Ratings

- Second field - Specifies rule operator, Contains, not Containing, is, Starts with, Ends with, >= or <=

Note. Contains, Starts with and Ends with are non-case sensitive, Is requires an exact match, >= and <= are valid only for numerical values

- Third field - Specifies rule value

Add Rule - Adds a new rule

- Note. maximum is 6 rules. For file to be found all rules must be True

Remove Rule - Removes last rule added

Match:

- If all rules are met - And rule for filter

- If any rules are met - Or rule for filter

Find - Clears all results and starts a new search process

Stop - Stops the search process and displays results found so far

Reset - Resets any values in active tab

Change View: Icon, Small Icon, List, Report, Thumbnails. Note! Report view is default view.

Select :

   - All - Selects all files found by the Search

   - All Images - Selects all images found by the Search

Save Favorites - Saves a list of all selected image files as a VFL-file

Slide Show - Slide Show program is launched and displays all selected image files in a Custom show

Editor - Editor program is launched and opens the selected image file(s)

Search Result - Displays details of all files found by search

Preview - A selected image file is displayed in preview

Status Bar displays following information:

- How many folders have been searched

- How many file(s) have been found

- How long search has run