Brackets: Find In Files giving error "Filter excludes all files in project" even if "no files excluded"

[stevekohanek]

I'm trying to search my source code for a specific function, and getting sporadic results. For example:

• Choose Find->Find in Files
• In the box I type a text string eg. "function"
• Leave the "No files excluded" setting

I get an error message (in red) "Filter excludes all files in project".
This makes no sense to me.

I also tried adding an exclusion "*.jpg". This did not help

[JeffryBooher]

@stevekohanek can you try resetting your cache and settings as described here: https://github.com/adobe/brackets/wiki/Cache-Folder and let us know if you still see a problem?

[stevekohanek]

Thanks Jeffry,
I tried that, then I went back into Brackets and had the same results (see screenshot)

[redmunds]

Do you have any extensions installed? Try Debug > Reload Without Extensions to make sure it's not caused by an extension.

[stevekohanek]

Okay I found the answer. I was getting an Error Indexing Files due to > 30,000 files in my project. Most of the files were jpeg photos that were actually client data.
The solution I found was to install an extension "https://github.com/gruehle/exclude-folders". Then I edited the main.js for this extension and added the folder that contained all the .jpg files.
Thanks for your help!

[JeffryBooher]

Yes. unfortunately the file indexer does not use the find exclude files filter. I'm closing this issue since you've figured out a solution. We have quite a few stories to handle large projects. Here's one that you may be interested to vote on: https://trello.com/c/zd77LxFS

[tonybrasunas]

This is affecting me too. 32,000 files in project because of lots of images and downloadables inside assets dirs. Find in Files never works, with or without "excluded folders". I haven't installed the extension yet.

[euharrison]

wow! me too! does anyone know where to 'thumbs up' this to fix in the core?