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<blockquote data-quote="Pat Clark" data-source="post: 887070" data-attributes="member: 123421">I believe MP will handle your file structure easily. There is an opportunity for a plugin to be developed which would search within file names -- I don't believe one exists right now, but there is one called Global Search which might be modified to do so. Win7 will search within file names, even if slowly, but I'm not sure if it will do so when and where you want.&nbsp;[Off topic]&nbsp;You have encountered a classic problem in system design -- using a data-item (file name in this case) for more than one purpose. Your file names carry a lot of information that is difficult to access and modify. This has been a problem in software &quot;forever.&quot; Whenever it is done, it will eventually become a problem. The fix is not easy. In the case of file-names, there may be no true fix without information loss, because, unfortunately, Microsoft perpetuated the problem many years ago by including the &quot;type&quot; of file in the suffix. This was a bad design decision. Also, many file-types do not include a facility for carrying meta-data -- this, too, is bad -- even proprietary file formats can use and should include a provision for meta-data.&nbsp;Many other data-items also suffer from this effect. In the US, the Social Security Number carries information beyond just a number. Bad. Frequently, you will see other ID numbers, such as a product serial number, that are long enough to account for tremendously large numbers of items -- designers seem to include unneeded information such as a date-code, lot-number, model-number, or whatever in the ID number. Bad.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pat Clark, post: 887070, member: 123421"] I believe MP will handle your file structure easily. There is an opportunity for a plugin to be developed which would search within file names -- I don't believe one exists right now, but there is one called Global Search which might be modified to do so. Win7 will search within file names, even if slowly, but I'm not sure if it will do so when and where you want. [Off topic] You have encountered a classic problem in system design -- using a data-item (file name in this case) for more than one purpose. Your file names carry a lot of information that is difficult to access and modify. This has been a problem in software "forever." Whenever it is done, it will eventually become a problem. The fix is not easy. In the case of file-names, there may be no true fix without information loss, because, unfortunately, Microsoft perpetuated the problem many years ago by including the "type" of file in the suffix. This was a bad design decision. Also, many file-types do not include a facility for carrying meta-data -- this, too, is bad -- even proprietary file formats can use and should include a provision for meta-data. Many other data-items also suffer from this effect. In the US, the Social Security Number carries information beyond just a number. Bad. Frequently, you will see other ID numbers, such as a product serial number, that are long enough to account for tremendously large numbers of items -- designers seem to include unneeded information such as a date-code, lot-number, model-number, or whatever in the ID number. Bad. [/QUOTE]

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