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Hi Oleg.
What about folders where the name has a [doc]
or a [txt] or [html]
when trying to sort these out if I do the seach to have "*[doc]*.*" it selects any file that has a []  in it.

Thanks

I had tried yesterday. It's working...
Can you send a few full names of folders?

BTW: check, please "Search Kind" parameters. It must be set to "Folders only".

Hi Oleg, I believe these are the folders that would not sort correctly, I just had a look late last night and again early this morning.folder names to tryPendas, Merle - [history homework] Romans vs Ancient Britons (Vol I.) [v1.0 draft] [doc]Pendas, Merle - [history homework] Romans vs Ancient Britons (Vol I.) [v1.0 draft] [txt]Pendas, Merle - [history homework] Romans vs Ancient Britons (Vol I.) [v1.0 draft] [htm]Pendas, Merle - [history homework] Romans vs Ancient Britons (Vol I.) 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""DASH_FILENAME_ONLY"" with value ""{ExtractFileName({dash_filename})}"""Params=FOLDER[Actions\Action8\Params]expand=STRING|"1"varname=STRING|"DASH_FILENAME_ONLY"varvalue=STRING|"{ExtractFileName({dash_filename})}"[Actions\Action9]ActionID=STRING|"A_FILE_COPY"Enabled=INTEGER|0Name=STRING|"Copy/Move File"Params=FOLDER[Actions\Action9\Params]destdir=STRING|"h:\04 presort folders with comas\doc"f_count=STRING|"1"file0=STRING|"{dash_filename}"ifexists=STRING|"0"move=STRING|"1"subdir=STRING|"0" 

Pendas, Merle - [history homework] Romans vs Ancient Britons (Vol I.) [v1.0 draft] [doc]
Pendas, Merle - [history homework] Romans vs Ancient Britons (Vol I.) [v1.0 draft] [txt]
Pendas, Merle - [history homework] Romans vs Ancient Britons (Vol I.) [v1.0 draft] [htm]
Pendas, Merle - [history homework] Romans vs Ancient Britons (Vol I.) [v2.0 final] [pdf]

The needed part of filename is in extension. System thinks that all symbols after last point is an extension. Therefore you have to search folders by these masks:
*.*doc*
*.*htm*
*.*txt*
It's working.

I removed square brackets, because system the function don't want to search files in this case by some reason. We'll investigate why.