Using Dates in File Searches

Date Formatting Guidelines

    Select one of the date options from the appropriate pop-up menu to specify how a date will be used in the search.
    All options which use the date entered in the field require a valid date string with optional time string (separated from the date string by a comma), or time string.
    If a date field contains and invalid entry when the search is initiated, File Buddy will display a message containing examples of valid entries based on your date and time format settings in use on your computer.
    A week is 12:00 am Sunday morning to 11:59:59 pm Saturday night, and a month is 12:00 am on the first day of the month to 11:59:59 pm on the last day of the month.

Since Tuesday...

    Items containing the days of the week will vary depending on the current day of the week, and represent a fixed number of days in the past. The items below are those that would appear if the current day of the week were Saturday. Hence, the item Modified since Thursday, would be equivalent to Modified after 2 days ago, and so on. If you are happily finding files at midnight, the items in these menus will change. If you change dates using the system control panel, close the Find window and reopen it to update the menus.

During a Time Frame

    The on, during week of, and during month of options do not use all of the date information, but still require a complete valid date as described above to be entered. The search uses the day, week or month containing the specified date. For example, using the during month of option, "1/3/02" and "1/23/02, 1:10:34 am" would both result in the same search.

Hidden Date Field

    The date field is hidden with options which would ignore its contents, such as in the past hour or yesterday.


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