Is Search's Directory filter broken?

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I’m trying to find assets within a folder, and dir seems to find nothing.

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Am I misusing the filter or is it just broken?

(I’m on Unity 6000.33f1)

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Hi @msfredb7 ,

Sorry for the delay in answering your question.

This is a tricky one and it relates to the difference between the : and = comparison operator (see Unity - Manual: Search query operators for more details).

In a nutshell:

  • dir:Mobs : will match any assets whose path contains Mobs (at any place in the path).
  • dir=Assets/Mobs : will match any assets that is EXACTLY in the Assets/Mobs folder.

In your image, you are using the query builder which seems to be inserting dir= as its directory name proposition. This is a usability bug in my opinion.

Example of dir queries on my computer:

With results because we are partially matching the dir name:

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Without any results because “Sprites” is not an exact folder:

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With exact folder match:

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Thanks for the detailed reply.

Should I make a bug report?

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Sorry @msfredb7 I should have told you that I already filed the bug. We should take care of it in our upcoming bugbash.

Since the current User pain of this bug is pretty low I think this will land in 6.3, be backported to 6.2. But I am unsure we will backport to 6.0 though.