Windows 10: Windows Search: Search for ONLY hidden files

I have a lot of files in a folder, some of them hidden. I want to search for only the hidden files, like the guy in this post. The answer was not for ONLY hidden files. Of course I know I must enable "Show hidden files".


Windows Search is quite powerful, so it can search by dates, and some other file properties (isattachment:true, kind:folders...) but I cannot guess a search expression for hidden files.

:)

 

Searching hidden files/folders


This is what I do:

• In explorer, browse to C:/Username
• Start a search there containing a folder name I know is in C:/Username/Appdata/Local
• The folder does not appear in search

Hidden files and folders are marked to be visible everywhere.
It seems like recursive search doesn't descend into hidden files/folders, because when I browse to Appdata and search there, I find it.

Any way to change this behaviorr?

 

search for hidden files & folders

Doesn't seem possible from within Explorer. Using 'Attributes:HSA' for instance, doesn't work. You can filter on the column header in a detail view, but that's not a true search.

To Search for files & folders with the Hidden attribute set, you have to use PowerShell:

Code:

[b]get-childitem -Hidden[/b]

to list files within the current directory and:

Code:

[b]get-childitem -hidden -recurse[/b]

to find files in the current directory and all subdirectories.

Keith

 

Search Question

Which is why I suggested he try there instead. TPU is too limited of a user base to search here alone for anything gaming related.