I would like to respectfully request the addition of a search bar feature in the Infinity Free File Manager. A search option would make it much easier to quickly find files and folders, especially when working with large projects that contain many directories and files.
At the moment, locating a specific file requires manually browsing through folders, which can be time-consuming. A built-in search bar would greatly improve usability, speed up workflow, and enhance the overall user experience.
Infinity Free is already a very useful platform, and adding this feature would make the File Manager even more powerful and developer-friendly.
Thank you for your time and for continuously improving Infinity Free. I hope you will consider this request.
Hello. Just in case you are unaware of, the program Filezilla allows you to search files recursively already. Just click the binoculars button. filestash.infinityfree.com also has the magnifying lens and search box. But the results can get limited at times. Or are you looking for search with different options?
This is true, but it only seems to be able to search through whichever directory you’ve currently selected. What OP seems to want is the ability to search for a specific file in any directory.
as far as im aware the file manager is basically a FTP client, in order to do a global search across all files, the the file manager would need to do list of all folders, and sub folders, build a database, then offer to search that list, this would be both super slow for a reasonable code base (ftp is not fast) , and would cause and expodential impact in file system performance due to massive reads being required.
as a developer / web master, knowing where a file is on your website is quite a fundamental thing, if such recursive searching is needed it would probably better to develop on your local computer / search as you like, then upload the changed files from your computer to where they are needed.
It’s not trivial to add a feature like this due to the issues that @Someone123 describes, and searching through many thousands of files across a hundred or so directories is just not going to work. But maybe the search function could search subfolders to some sane limit (e.g. searching only X directories or Y levels deep).
I can see the benefit to having this, so I’ll bring it up and see if something can be done for it.