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| The File Manager - Searching and Filtering

Overview Searching and Filtering File Sets File Extensions

iFuntastic provides several powerful tools to help find files or folders quickly:

- search for files and folders by name, partial name, file type and - images - by image dimension
- search for text in almost all text files on the device
- apply a filter to a file manager listing to narrow down lengthy listings
- 'search' for images with Graphinder, or visually in the Image Browser
- display a list of all items in the iTunes Library sorted by Artist and Title

Except for filtering, the device status should be Ready for iFun!, that is, iFuntastic Support should be installed. It gives iFuntastic the ability to execute scrips on the device which is needed to produce the indices.
You can create or update the following indices:

- File and Folder Index. This is a list of all files and folders on the device. The index can be rebuilt from the Device menu or from the iFuntastic Support page
- Text Index which produces word lists for most text files on the device
- Image Cache which produces thumbnails and determines the image dimensions for most images on the device
- iTunes Library Index which looks at all songs and movies on the device and tries to determine artist and title

Go to the iFuntastic Support page -> Install -> Upgrade/Update and choose the desired options. Indices should be updated from time to time, especially after installing or deleting things or when you search for something and cannot find it.
The first three of the following functions can be found in the options menu of any file manager list. You can toggle them on or off. If on, a Search (or Filter) Menu will appear, along with a text entry field for the search string and a checkbox that allows you to switch between the original, current file list, or the search/filter results.
Search Files and Folders
Enter a string in the text entry field and hit the 'Enter' key, or click on the 'Show Results' checkbox. iFuntastic will display all files and folders whose name contains the string. The search is case insensitive. Spaces in the string separate individual search strings - iFuntastic will loook for any of them. Put a = (equal) in front of a string to require that items contain it, put a - (minus) in front to exclude items that contain that string. Search strings should be at least two characters in length.
When searching or filtering images, you can search by one or both dimensions; use <W:59><H:60> for example, to search for proper application icons; use <W:50,80><H:50,80> to allow a bit of spread - the range for width and height is 50..80.
Full Text Search
This works as above, except that instead of searching in file or folder names, iFuntastic searches inside of text files.
Filtering
This works as above, but the 'search' string is now a filter string and is applied to the current listing (disk or device.) It can be a single character.
Show only Files for Current Language
There are many language specific lproj folders which contain translations of the same files for each language. You can restrict the search and filter result lists to display only the files inside the lproj folders for the current device language by checking this option in the search or filter menu.
Graphinder
With Graphinder you can 'search' for images. Activate the 'iFuntastic-Graphinder' WinterBoard theme, take a screenshot, import it, mouse over the image and iFuntastic will tell you the image you are pointing to - along with its location on the phone. Please refer to the Screenshots documentation for more information.