Forgive me if I missed/deleted a proper response to this, but there's a much 
easier way to do this...

Use command line recover instead of the GUI... go to the directory where you 
*think* it should be and do:

versions filename

Where filename is the file you are looking for of course. You can also do this 
at the directory level "versions ." and changetime to those dates when the 
directory actually changed if you are unsure of the exact filename.. (e.g. 
Years ago I once had someone ask me to find an excel file which they renamed to 
a different extension other than xls, but couldn't remember the new extension, 
the filename, or where the file was originally located)

I honestly haven't used the GUI in years for a restore, so it might be a lot 
better than it used to be. But I know you can do this pretty easily from the 
command line recover.

-Good luck.

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]On
Behalf Of MIchael Leone
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 1:32 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] How to query for a specific file?


EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
08/20/2008 02:21:56 PM:

> So I have this problem (one of many). I know the name of a file I want. 
I 
> don't know the folder it is/was located on. I have a range of dates that 

> the file supposedly existed (i.e., it should have existed between 
> 2008-07-08 and 2008-07-14). But I am not seeing the file in the GUI, 
when 
> trying to recover (at least, it's not in the folder we think it should 
> be).
> 
> SO ... is there a way to query for this specific filename? nsrinfo?

I've tried (as an example) 

C:\PHA Scripts>nsrinfo -v -N leonem.nsf admnlts003
scanning client `admnlts003' for all savetimes from the backup namespace
0 objects found

I will guarantee the the file "leonem.nsf" exists on the client 
"admnlts003" (it's my Lotus Notes mailbox). So why can't it find it? There 
aren't a whole lot of options to nsrinfo, that I can see ... The 
instructions say to specify a filename, not a filepath and filename ...\



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