how do i exclude folders from my search?

[BigDan]

when i do a search for something such as pdf, how do i exclude folders from my search?

i'd also like to know how to limit my search to a folder without looking at subfolders. for example if i'd like to search for pdfs in c:\users\me\downloads how do i make sure files in downloads\movies dont show up?

btw is there a simple way to limit my search to downloads without having to type that whole path in?

[void]

Prefix the path with the NOT operator (!)

For example:
!downloads\movies

[BigDan]

Sorry I should've been more clear. I meant I don't want it in ANY of the subfolders not just that specific one.

[therube]

ext:pdf

And so long as you don't have a directory named something like:

c:/somethinglike.pdf/

, it will only find files, not directories.

[BigDan]

when I type in "txt \downloads" i get thousands of results. But a number of them are in various subdirectories. I can filter out one subdirectory by typing in "!\comics" or something like that but how do i filter out the contents of ALL subdirectories?

[ovg]

try:
txt infolder:you_folder

[BigDan]

try:
txt infolder:you_folder

I'm sorry I didn't follow. Do I replace the word "you" with something? And my folder is called Downloads, do I simply type that in or the whole path? Tried typing in downloads with the text you gave me, 0 results.

[ovg]

txt infolder:downloads