The advanced search dialog helps you build more complex queries without having to memorize the search language constructs.
The dialog can be opened through the Tools menu or through the main toolbar. There is also an option to have it open when the program starts. The results of the search are processed and displayed in the same way as the results from the "simple search".
Recoll keeps a history of searches. See Advanced search history.
The dialog has two tabs:
The first tab lets you specify terms to search for, and permits specifying multiple clauses which are combined to build the search.
The second tab allows filtering the results according to file size, date of modification, MIME type, or location.
Click on the Start Search button in the advanced search dialog, or type Enter in any text field to start the search. The button in the main window always performs a simple search.
Click on the Show query details link at the top of the result page
to see the query expansion.
