File Search

Defines the scope of the file index, so Semantic Search can find a design by describing it instead of you remembering where it was saved.

Folders

The list of folders to index.

• Add folder… — opens a folder browser and appends the result. Folders already in the list are ignored, so you cannot add the same one twice.
• Remove — takes the selected folder out of the list.

Options

• Include subfolders — enabled by default. Turn it off when you only want the top level of a big archive.
• Extensions — a comma-separated list of the file extensions to keep. Anything else in those folders is ignored, which is what keeps the index small and the search fast on an archive with twenty years of work in it.

Index

• Reindex now — saves the current scope and rebuilds the index in the background. The label beside the button reports how many files are indexed and the progress while it works.

Saving the page also triggers a background refresh, so the index always reflects the scope you just set.

Why it exists

A jewellery archive is not organised the way a search engine would like it: files are named after clients, orders or dates, and the thing you actually remember is what the piece looked like. The index has to be told where to look before it can answer that kind of question — and told what to ignore, or it spends its time on renders, backups and STLs nobody will ever search for.