Index This

[NotNull]

What's this
Choose IndexThis from the context-menu of a folder or drive to have it indexed in a separate, temporary database.
Comes in handy with external USB-disks, network folders, etc.

How it works:
When you choose IndexThis from the context-menu, a new instance of Everything will be started with specific settings for this folder/drive. It will index it - using NTFS indexing on local NTFS filesystem; folder-indexing on other filesystems (no ReFS support) - and load the results in memory. Only memory; database will not be written to disk.

Isntallation

• Put attached CMD script in a folder somewhere on your system
• In the script, change the path to Everything.exe to match your system. Currently:
  set EverythingEXE=C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe
• Start the script (by double-clicking it in Explorer, for example)
• Choose [ i ] from the menu (Install).
• Done.

Now you can right-click a drive or folder to index it:

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[therube]

(You forgot something .)

[NotNull]

(You forgot something .)

Man ... it's one of those mondays ...

Will add the attachment to the original post
Thanks for "waking me up"

[NotNull]

Updated version:

• Use a different detection method of NTFS filesystem that doesnt require admin rights
• Check if Everything service is running (needed for NTFS indexing)

The zipfile is in the original post (removed the old version)

[jjk]

Sorry but I am not able to decompress IndexThis.zip
What happens ?
(file length is 1713 bytes)

[ovg]

It seems file is corrupted ...

[NotNull]

Same here: corrupted.
I think something went wrong when moving to the new webhoster (tested downloading another zipfile: also corrupted)

Will upload a fresh version.
New version uploaded.

BTW: Wow, no idea there was any interest in this. You made my day

[katarnyo]

I just have to say thanks
i've used everything allready, but with this extension it is
no compare to other solutions.

absolutely brilliant,sir

[froggie]

Very useful.
Works well with dupe: since the compare is only to the folder/sub-folders selected.
Nice code - made it easy to add additional ini parameters (more columns).

[NotNull]

@katarnyo, @froggie : thanks guys (M/F) ! Appreciated!

[NotNull]

There will be an update for IndexThis in a couple of days. This update should be able to use the (faster) NTFS indexing in more cases.

[froggie]

This is minor, and I should be able to fix it, but it has been far too many years since I wrote cmd scripts :

I keep all my scripts in a directory that has a name similar to "Scripts & Programs & Such" . The ampersands make IndexThis fail. Do you know an easy way to escape the ampresands?

[NotNull]

The ampersands make IndexThis fail. Do you know an easy way to escape the ampresands?

I already wrote an updated version of IndexThis and this (known) issue has (hopefully) been fixed too.
I hope to have some time this weekend for some extra testing.

[NotNull]

Updated version:

• Better handling of special characters like % ^ & ( ) and $
• Use NTFS indexing for NTFS volumes that are not a bootvolume if Everything service is not running
• Added an option to use a different icon in the context menu

(Zipped) script is attached to the original post (replaced the previous version)
Everything icons in different colours can be downloaded here.

[froggie]

Thank you. That does the trick.

[Andreas Sachse]

the state says thanks