Windows 10: File explorer search returns no files when I search by using the “Date Modified” drop-down list

It was working until a week or 2 ago. I may have changed a parameter in View. Searches using 'kind' and 'other properties' does get results.

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Windows 10 File Explorer doesn't find some files by date modified

Just tried some batch files with some DOS commands. Curiously when I found one to search my D drive using a string of text (yesterday's date), several files showed up. All were modified yesterday and are on my D drive. Here it is:

@echo off

dir D:\*.* /s /t:c | findstr "7/31/2017" >Directory_by_date.txt

start /w notepad "Directory_by_date.txt"

exit

When I looked at the few files that showed up in the File Explorer search by date, THEY WERE NOT THE SAME LISTS AT ALL! Not one file was on both lists. And neither list had a couple of files I knew were modified yesterday.

So now I have three ways to search for files by modified date:

• DIR gives me one list.
• File Explorer search gives me a different list.
• Visually scanning every directory I know I worked on gives me other files that were modified yesterday, some on the above lists some not.

So what this means is no method is reliable.

I give up.

 

How do I search for files modified after a certain date in Windows 10, NOT files just modifies last week,month,year,etc

Hello Jay,

Thank you for your response.

Follow the below steps and check if it helps.

• Open a Folder and type a file you wanted to search.
• Type Modifiedate of modified in the search box. Example:
  Modified:1/7/2016
• It will show all the files which are modified on the particular date.

Hope this information helps.

 

File Explorer Search Not Working


I am trying to search in File Explorer (Windows Explorer, My Computer) and it will not find anything. I can copy text from a name in the list and paste it in the search box and it still finds nothing. I have looked at the suggestions that have been posted and nothing I find that is relative to this works. Anyone have any suggestions? I am running Win 10 Pro on an I3 coustom desktop computer.