Finding Files and Folders

CuteFTP Site Search function allows you to search local and remote drives and folders for files based on all or part of the filename with wildcard support, modification date or date range, and file size or size range.

To find a file or folder

  1. On the main menu, click Edit > Find. The Search Results dialog box opens.

  2. Next to Search in, specify whether to search on the local or remove pane.

    • Local Drives - If you want to search for a file in your local drive.

    • Remote pane - If you want to search for a file in the remote pane.

  3. In the Search for the files or folder named box, type the name of a file or folder, or the extension of a file for which you want to search. The name or the extension of the file is added to the drop-down list. You can also use wildcards.

  4. In the Look in box, specify the folder to search or type the path.

  5. To include the subfolders in the target folder, select the Search subfolders check box.

  6. To define the file size, select the File size between check box, then type the number of kilobytes in the text boxes.

  7. To specify a date range, select the Date modified between check box, then type or select the date range in which to search.

  8. To start the search, click Search Now.

  9. To stop the search, click Stop search.

  10. All of the files with the same extension or with same name with other details, such as size, type, modified on, and attributes are listed in the Results pane of the Search Results dialog box.

Find and Find Next are not case sensitive and only search from the top to the bottom of your listings.