Search modes, About the searching process – M-AUDIO Pro Tools Recording Studio User Manual

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Chapter 14: DigiBase

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Quotations Marks for Text Strings

Text enclosed in quotation marks is searched as
one text string. For example, if you type “Dog
Bark”
(with quotes), only items with Dog Bark
anywhere in the File Name are considered a
match.

Search Modes

DigiBase provides two different text searching
environments:

Quick Search Mode

Applies wildcards before

and after each text string. For example, a Quick
search for Dog finds Dogs, dog_bark, and
howling_dogs.

Advanced Search Mode

Does not automatically

apply any wildcards. Therefore, an Advanced
search on Dog finds Big Dog, but not Dogs (unless
you manually add a wildcard, as described in
“Wildcard Characters (* and ?)” on page 244).

In addition, Advanced Search recognizes word
breaks
such as underscores and capitalization.
For example, an Advanced search on Dog also
finds Big_Dog (Big-underscore-Dog) and BigDog,
though it would not find BigDogs.

To enable Advanced Search mode:

„

Click to enable the Advanced Search mode

option.

To return to Quick Search mode:

„

Click to deselect the Advanced Search mode.

About the Searching Process

Searches are conducted in two passes, each indi-
cated by Search Status displayed in the Search
pane (and the Task window).

Searching Databases

The existing databases are

searched first. While this is the fastest search
pass, this search pass can only be as accurate as
the database (in other words, if the database is
not completely up to date you might not find
the files you want).

File System Search Pass

This is the second pass

of a search. This search is not as fast as the Data-
base pass, but it is more thorough because it is
not relying on the database, which may or may
not be current.

Search pane

Toggling search mode affects all DigiBase
browsers.

Each pass is completed before the next pass
begins.

Advanced Search

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