Analyses to find the path of a file

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In a bit of a bind here working on a project. I need to sweep the hard drive and find the location of this file: Microsoft.MSPaint_5.1902.13017.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe

can someone give me a quick Analyses on how to do this, the one that I wrote didn’t work - but that’s because I barely know what I’m doing.

Appreciate any help!

Sno

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Try:

pathnames of find files "Microsoft.MSPaint_5.1902.13017.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe" of (descendant folders of folder "c:\")

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There are a lot of caveats to the “descendants” inspectors, a lot of potential breaks, so use with care. Tying up that much resource on the client can make it stop responding to other content. I’d avoid it if possible, and instead use an Action to scan the directories and an Analysis to read the text results of the scan.

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I’m planning to use the Spring Scan task at https://bigfix.me/fixlet/details/269321 as a template for future file scans. I think you should be able to modify a couple of lines of that script to find this file instead.

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