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try exiting everything (RC on system tray icon, exit) and then go to where you have everything installed. I put mine in Program Files(x86), but I don't think it has to be there. Delete the everything.[pcname].[user].db file there and restart. this will cause it to rescan all the drives and rebuild t...

Looks like it is working today. Can't say what might have been happening when you tried it.

The "search inside" has been suggested before and it would be a great addition BUT (there is alway one of those) it would slooowww things way down. The real beauty of SE right now is the incredible speed. And it is precisely because it does not have to touch the file that it has the speed. Google de...

Along the lines of icons for filters, I would love to see a BACK button that would simply redo the previous search. And maybe make several "backs" available.

I frequently do a search and see the results and then do another search and then realize what I wanted was on the previous search.

cacamama wrote:May I ask when the next unstable/stable version is due?
Not that this version isn't treating me well, I just need something to be excited about =)

I know what you mean. I am the same way.

Yes it would be great. BUT -and there is always one of those... SE gets its speed by using tables of file names already built into NTFS. The timestamps and sizes you see are fetched (very quickly) for the files you see on the screen (and not any others). I have 1,200,000 entries in my SE search list...

There is an SDK for Search Everything and using that you could easily create the list, but are you trying to list the files on an FTP disk? SE only indexes NTFS volumes directly attached to the system running it.

Check this out for a way to bypass the UAC: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?p=175

How about giving an indication of the state of Match Case, Whole Word, Path, RegEx and Filter type in the status bar (or somewhere that can be seen without clicking)?

Please?

1000 entries used to take a longer to sort out, but the sorts for date/time or size have been optimized. It really depends on the speed of the machine and the disks. Perhaps a formula incorporating the speed of the computer, the number of disk drives, the amount of ram and the phase of the moon woul...

I just looked at the time-stamp on my DB file and it is 01/07/2010 23:49:42 and today is 01/12/2010 12:43. Darn if SE only writes or updates the DB on shutdown this could be a problem for me. I normally don't shut down unless I'm forced to do so. Some applications I run might run for 2-3 weeks befo...

Everything currently only searches NTFS volumes. I don't know of any phones using that file system. There are plans for searching other file systems in a future release. I don't know what the story could be on the icon problem.

I have run into that rescan thing once in a while and I too would like it only scan the drive that has the file I am looking for on it. Unfortunately, there is no way to know where that file is until the scan is over. Maybe what could be an option is to return results while it is scanning so that yo...

This is a "feature". It knows where you 'really' wanted to start....

Try this one (note that it is an alpha level and you may find some new problems) and see if that helps. I have been using it for a while now and it seems stable:

http://forum.voidtools.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=592

deepdvd wrote:... I just tried this with a 3rd party renaming utility http://www.fauland.com/af5.htm and I didn't have any issues with this version of Everything.
What utility are you using?

Thanks for the pointer to A.F.5. That makes life a little easier.

simple is beautiful. Look at google. It started very plainly and has pretty much stayed that way (as I hope it will).

I am running 446a (win 7 64bit) and I see a similar thing. It is scanning the drives and takes a moment or two. I have 1.3 Million files total. I sleep the system most times and so I don't see it often enough for it to be a bother. It is almost like the status as indicated in Win 7 is so far out of ...

David wrote:Sorting one million files and folders by path will take about 20 seconds on a 3GHZ CPU.....

1,284,264 objects <10 seconds on my Core i5 2.66GHz. [gotta brag a little, just got it].

Having the open box for a search argument is nice, and I think you can accomplish the same thing with a hotkey. I don't use the search in windows, but don't you have to first move the mouse to the search box and click before you can enter a search word? If you use a hotkey (I use Win-Z) just enter t...

Currently Everything only searches NTFS drives. Network drives don't fall into this category. I think David has on the "TODO" list to work on non-NTFS drives. Part of the charm (and speed) of Everything is that it has a relatively small footprint and is blazingly fast. It achieves those because it u...

Since we are mentioning suggestions -- Can I ask for an 'indicator character' that does not require a shift key? A colon needs a shift.... Sorry guy but every "not allowed" character for file names requires a shift or is a slash. But wait! the * key is shift 8 but also on the numeric keypad!!......(...

I assume you tried it? What were the results? On my keyboard the 2 Alt keys seem to have identical function and when I use the one on the right of the space bar the hot key shows as Alt-Space (same if I set the alt key on the left). What do you see in the hot key setting when you press the keys?

ardee wrote:...... And when it indexed all my huge volumes in a couple seconds, I nearly had a stroke.)

I heard that David is going to start requiring proof of medical insurance before giving out the links to the product.

An alternative is to set up a HotKey. I use Win-Z and start Everything at windows startup so it is instantly available. The hotkey setting is in the Tools, Options, General Tab at the bottom. Drop down what works for you and apply. You may want to have unchecked the multiple windows and multiple ins...

I found a little "cheat" to do this. Use Everything to find the everything.ini file. Then right click to copy the name and path. Close everything (RC icon and exit). Then open Notepad and click File, Open and in the File Name paste the previously copied name. Edit what you want and save it. Next tim...

size filtering would be GREAT... sorting the size column of 1800000+.... items is nuts.. but filtering the list for anything over a certain size would be a major help, would then making sorting the size column much quicker Unfortunately, in order to filter by file size Everything first has to read ...

Hi Kurt, If the program displeases and frustrates you so I would suggest that you don't use it. Considering the price, I would be willing to pay at least 4x that for the same function. I know that remembering the prior searches is on the list of things TODO. You say you don't want all searches remem...

By default it searches "everything". In the Options section (Right on system tray icon or Tools, Options in program) there is an Exclude tab to eliminate the hidden files from the results. If you are not seeing hidden files perhaps this is checked? The Folder Option "Display Hidden Files" or "Do not...

when you select items you get a count of the number of items, but then the total count of the items is gone.

Please make the message something like nnn objects selected out of nnn objects total.

Thanks

Currently when you sort the results screen it is first in Ascending order. This isn't bad for alpha, but for date modified it puts the most recent at the bottom which either means scrolling down there or sorting again. Please add an option to sort date fields descending initially or make that the de...

I will have to check out your script. I have been using Everything and Copy and Paste to eliminate the drilldown on save/open menus.

Thanks, Spuddie

Hi Ed,

It works for me on XP SP2 and a bit as it is supposed to, but I don't have xplorer2 so I could only try Win Explorer. Maybe David will have some further debugging suggestions.

Bob Roos

What version of Everything are you running? (see Help, About) If it is not 1.2.1.371 or later then you need to update to that one here http://www.voidtools.com/ If it is 371 does the crash only happen when right clicking from Everything search results? David may have some ideas, but answering these ...

I don't have TC, but I just tried the options using the DOS command prompt window and unchecking the "Allow multiple windows" on the general tab of the options settings in everything does restrict my test to one window BUT I had to completely terminate everything (including the icon in the system tr...

On the Tools, Options, General tab there are checkboxes "Allow Multiple windows" and "Allow Multiple Instances", Are they both unchecked? If not try that.

I don't know if that will fix what you want, but that is what came to mind.

Bob Roos

I don't believe that all page faults result in an I/O to the disk. I could be wrong on this and I can't cite a source for the belief.

FWIW Online Armor firewall has TONs more PFs than Everything on my system.

I have been using 375 for sometime now and it seems to work OK. I don't remember if I was having a problem and switched or just wanted to have the latest. I know David has been working on adding features. As to when another beta is available, I don't know. I do think that when it comes it will be a ...

For me the ability to do the right click on the result items is very, very useful. Are you left click dragging from the results list to another location? When I want to copy a file from the results list I always do a right click and copy or a right click drag and then select copy. I could never reme...

When you right click on a file or folder windows wants to load up all the components of the right click menu. files and folders have different components. It sounds like one of the file components was causing the delay. That is one reason why there is a request for copy name and/or path to clipboard...

try using .n2k (without the star). I have found that using that gives me more consistent results. I just did a small test and *.wmv returned 269 entries while .wmv returned 279. I exported both sets of results and found that the *.wmv EXcluded all the LNK files (xxxxxx.wmv.lnk). that makes sense sin...

Hi Mickey, I don't think that Everything will do this for you (as much as I would love it if it did). Everything relies on disks being organized with NTFS. Data CDs and DVDs do not use that method of putting files on the disk. Everything will also not find files on most USB thumb drives (because the...

If you know it is on the Z: drive then just start with z: hit the space bar and type eve. Play with the space bar to qualify searches with partial matches. It is very powerful I believe there is a TODO item for making the entire line left and right clickable so you don't have to slide all the way to...

leave off the splat (*)

Just search .jpg or .mp3

And is 1.2.1.375 a fake?

I don't think so. It was mentioned in a couple of other forum posts as an unofficial beta. I would think as long as you download it from Voidtools that it would be good. (No need to apologize -- your English is very understandable).

If you set up a hot key (I use Windows-Z) to bring up the Everything search window and you start Everything at boot then it will be all ready to go as soon as you want to make your first search with no waiting. I run at startup and almost never "drill down" when opening files. I go to Everything and...

There aren't any disadvantages of NTFS over FAT are there?

The only one I know of is that windows 95/98 or DOS won't be able to access the drive without special drivers. Generally NTFS is considered faster, safer and all around better than FAT.

I have had the same thing from time to time.

Try hitting F5 to refresh the index. If that doesn't bring it up then terminate everything (right click on the everything icon in the systray and exit) and start it again.

Fantastic program. I am SO spoiled when I have to search a network drive......

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