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Trouble trying to use Windows Search to search for file with a question mark in the content

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Mar 15, 202629465 views
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It seems that Windows Search is having trouble when I specify a question mark character as the content that I'm searching for within my files. I've tried: content:? content:"?" content:"\?" content:\? content:%3f content:"%3f" content:\3f content:"\3f" content:\00\00\00\3F but each of these yield n…

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Fix for: Trouble trying to use Windows Search to search for file with a question mark in the content

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Try ~=? where ? is the character you are searching for.

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