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Is there a program or Windows Search trick to display a list of folders NOT containing a particular filemask? Specifically, I want to find all folders not containing a .exe file.

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  • Including all subfolders? That is a pretty simple thing to code, I'm kind of amazed there's nothing on that front.
    – Fernando Cordeiro
    Mar 28, 2015 at 7:26
  • Does it need to be a GUI tool? Or would a Powershell script be okay for your purposes?
    – gm2
    Mar 29, 2015 at 22:36
  • Definitely looking for a GUI tool. I could've written a script myself, but chose instead to seek out something I'd want to use long-term.
    – blackwind
    Mar 29, 2015 at 23:47

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You can use the shareware XYplorer, which has a 30-day trial period. In version 14.80, it introduced the feature that you want:

Find Containing Folders. Now you can list all folders containing a certain file or file type, files of a certain size or age, or with certain other properties. You can as well list all folders NOT containing such files.

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  • Seems to work. Accepting this answer for now, but if anyone finds a free tool specifically for this purpose (I don't need the thousands of other features in XYplorer and would never pay for it), I'm open to switching.
    – blackwind
    Mar 26, 2015 at 22:35

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