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Using Windows Explorer, how to find file names starting with a dot (period), in 7 or Vista?

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Mar 15, 202646482 views
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I've got a MacBook laptop in the house, and when Mac OS X copies files over the network, it often brings along hidden "dot-files" with it. For instance, if I copy , there will also be copied a hidden file. I consider these OS X dot-files as useless turds of data as far as the rest of my network is …

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"SomeUtility.zip"

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Fix for: Using Windows Explorer, how to find file names starting with a dot (period), in 7 or Vista?

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Use Window's "Search Advanced Query Syntax", which basically lets you do stuff that Vista and XP advanced search used to let you (that Windows 7 hid). Read about it on MSDN. Hence, you can just search to find all files with a file name that begins w…

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