Is there a way to skip files with gobbledygook characters?
Yes. If you have no reason to search binary files, which provide the gobbledygook, select “Auto-detect and skip binary” under Options | Set Options | Find | Reading Files. The program will then skip all files it detects to be binary. (If you are not an IT professional, programmer, or daredevil, you probably do not need to search binary files, which have file extensions such as “.exe” and “.dll”.) To skip all files of particular file extensions, go to Set Options | Exclude | Always Skip Extensions. There, you can select or name the extensions to skip during Find and Replace operations. Press F1 there for help.
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