Filtering file types within folders

[mr.kenken]

Hi!
I'm sure this is answered many times before, but I am new to Everything (loving it!) and haven't been able to relate the other answers to my scenario, and find the help docs a bit intimidating.

On a shared network drive, my company has a gazillion folders, not very organized. I'm trying to find video files for different projects, and have to search for the folder name. That's fine, I can find many folders with the correct search term. But, it would help a lot to either only list folders that have video files in them, or, list all the video files that "comes from" a folder that fit the search criteria.

Example:
Search term: "dancing monkeys"

Result option 1:
Folders:

"Dancing monkeys in November 2020"
"Jungle safari 2019, dancing monkeys doing something insane"
"another folder with dancing monkeys"

Each one of those folders contains video files. For example 1234.mp4, monkey.mov, 4281.mp4, and so on.

Result option 2:

"1234.mp4"
"monkey.mov."
"4281.mp4"

These files originates from folders containing the word "Dancing monkeys".

Would anyone be so kind to explain how I would set up such a search?

[NotNull]

Although not impossible in Everything 1.4, this gets a lot easier when using version 1.5:

only list folders that have video files in them

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child:video:

list all the video files that "comes from" a folder that fit the search criteria

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video:  "*dancing monkeys*\*"

[mr.kenken]

WOW! Thank you for the prompt reply!

"*search term*\*" worked!

But I couldn't get the child:video: to work. How is this entered? Is it through a filter or something? I tried typing this in the search field:

"search term" child:video:

[NotNull]

How is this entered?

Exactly like this:

child:video:

It will show all folders that contain video-files.
The "search term" you add should therefor be related to the folder-names.

But I might be misunderstanding your goal here. Please post some examples (and what should be the results) for better understanding.

[mr.kenken]

The goal is to list the folders that fit the search criteria, and have videos in them. Can't see any results by typing child:video:

But if I can't get it to work it's no big deal, I can use the other method.

[NotNull]

You are using version 1.4 instead of 1.5 ...

Although not impossible in Everything 1.4, this gets a lot easier when using version 1.5:

[mr.kenken]

Ah, I see! Didn't think that applied to that method. Thank you for helping out and your insane response time!