Excluding items within html header folders from searches

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In searching for and working with files (mainly .jpg) I want to exclude files that are within html header folders. On my system these folders always end with _files

I’ve tried !"C:\Ni\\_files" and it seems to work (the result has nothing that is within a path terminating in _files) but I do not understand why it works.
Can anyone explain this?
cheers Nigel

[void]

With Everything 1.5,

win\\sys

expands to

**win**\**sys**

! = NOT
"" = escape spaces
** = match any character any number of times.
* = match any character (except \) any number of times.

!"C:\Ni\\_files"

=>

!"**C:\Ni**\**_files**"

=>

!"C:\Ni**\**_files**"

(the ** prefix is removed because the term starts with an absolute path C:)



path_search_type

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Thanks very much void, both work very well, well they work the same in this instance, with zero errors.
cheers Nigel