File Filter

EditPad Pro’s Explorer Panel and FTP Panel allow you to filter the files they display. Showing only the files you’re interested in makes it easier to work with folders containing large numbers of files.

The Explorer and FTP panels are not updated instantly while you edit the filters. To update the panel, either click on it with the mouse or press Enter while one of the filter drop-down lists has keyboard focus.

You can filter files based on their names in four ways:

• Show any type of file: Do not filter files based on their names.
• Show files of type: Shows the files that match the file mask of the file types you’ve configured. Select the file type you want from the drop-down list.
• Files matching a file mask: Shows the files that match the file mask you type into the drop-down list. You can enter multiple masks separated by semicolons.
• Show files matching a regex: A file will only be shown if the regular expression you type into the drop-down list matches the file’s name. If you enter multiple regular expressions separated by semicolons, a file will be shown if at least one of the regular expressions matches.

In addition to filtering files based on their names, you can also filter files based on the date and time they were last modified.

• Show files modified at any time: Do not filter files based on their last modification date.
• Last modified during the past...: Only show files that have been last modified in a certain number of past hours, days, weeks, months or years.
• Not last modified during the past...: Only show files that were not last modified in a certain number of past hours, days, weeks, months or years.
• Last modified since...: Only show files last modified on or after a specific date. Files last modified on the date you specify are shown.
• Not last modified since...: Only show files that were last modified before a specific date. Files last modified on the date you specify are shown.

When specifying a time period, EditPad Pro starts counting from the start of the current period. E.g. if you tell EditPad Pro to show files modified during the last two hours at half past three, EditPad Pro will show files modified at or after one o’clock, two hours before the start of the current hour.

Weeks start on Monday. If you tell EditPad Pro to show files modified during the last week on Wednesday the 14th, EditPad Pro will show files modified on or after Monday the 5th. The only exception to this rule is when you filter the files by a number of weeks on a Sunday. Then, EditPad Pro starts counting from the next Monday. The same filter on Sunday the 18th will have EditPad Pro show files modified on or after Monday the 12th.