{"id":49971,"date":"2025-08-28T22:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=49971"},"modified":"2025-08-28T22:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:29:13","slug":"home-computer-use-windows-fine-tuning-search-in-file-explorer-by-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/home-computer-use-windows-fine-tuning-search-in-file-explorer-by-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Home computer use, Windows: fine-tuning search in File Explorer by date"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about (Windows) File Explorer: the tutor mentions searching by date.<\/h2>\n<p>\nLet&#8217;s imagine, in File Explorer, one is searching a directory with a lot of files that go back many years &#8211; the Downloads file, for instance. One might wonder, for example, if a certain program came from a download, and when.<\/p>\n<p>\nWell, it seems one can fine-tune search, by date, in File Explorer. One key seems to be the datemodified parameter. As an example, the search <span style=\"font-family:monospace\">datemodified:<=15\/09\/2022<\/span> seems to select items from September 15, 2022, and before. One can, apparently, restrict the search to only as far back as August 30, 2022, as follows:<p style=\"font-family:monospace\">datemodified:<=15\/09\/2022 >=30\/08\/2022<\/p>\n<p>\nNeat, eh?<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/answers\/questions\/4121983\/how-do-i-search-files-in-windows-10-with-a-specifi?forum=windows-all&#038;referrer=answers\">learn.microsoft.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about (Windows) File Explorer: the tutor mentions searching by date. Let&#8217;s imagine, in File Explorer, one is searching a directory with a lot of files that go back many years &#8211; the Downloads file, for instance. One might wonder, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/home-computer-use-windows-fine-tuning-search-in-file-explorer-by-date\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home computer use, Windows: fine-tuning search in File Explorer by date<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1009],"tags":[3505,3759],"class_list":["post-49971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-computer-use","tag-file-explorer","tag-search-by-date"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49971"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49976,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49971\/revisions\/49976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}