507357 - Ability to select a directory and all its sub-dir for searching

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 378833

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, enhancement)

Description

[Yuxuan Wang]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060219 Camino/2.0b3 (like Firefox/3.0.11)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0b3

For example, I have a virtual folder that shows all (inbox and archives) my starred mails, and I have to manually select every sub directory under Archives for searching. After archiving a new month's mails, I have to remember to add that new sub directory for searching. If I can select Archives and all its sub-directories for searching, life will be much easier.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Use the "search sub folders" checkbox?

Comment 2

[Yuxuan Wang]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Use the "search sub folders" checkbox?

Where is this checkbox? I can't find it in 3.0 b3, is it in the latest nightly?

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

that's for advanced search, not the saved search properties dialog.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Yes, but when you do the *initial* search you can choose it. 
(Select a folder | right click | search)