We all know that it can be a pain finding a specific file you want to open in a sea of other files in Windows default open file or file upload dialogs, especially if it's mixed in with several ...

Finding files on your Windows computer can feel overwhelming. Luckily, using Windows search filters can make finding your important files much easier.

Google Drive search filters explained The "Type" filter sorts by file type (Docs, Sheets, Photos) and even lets you find folders, archives, and shortcuts for a faster search in Google Drive.

Samsung's Files by Google equivalent, My Files, is adding a clever file filter option that should make finding downloaded images, videos, files, documents, and more much simpler. How?

Drive's filter by people feature is available to all users, including those with free Google accounts, and helps ensure you know who can access your files within and outside your organization.

G Suite users can filter multiple Google Drive files with a few clicks (or taps) on desktop and mobile devices.

Matt Thommes at the Paint in the Tech blog finds it tedious to create filters in Gmail the multi-click way. His solution? Export a single filter, then make a few clever tweaks to the resulting XML ...

One UI 8 makes it much easier to find downloaded files, and I hope Google copies this trick The ability to filter files by the app that downloaded them is a very smart addition.