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:thumbsup: For others reading this, there is another option: ES.exe -instance 1.5a -save-settings That will save instance=1.5a in ES.ini, in the folder where your ES.exe is. The next time you run ES.exe, it will automatically append -instance 1.5a to your search command. (and better make a note of t...

At some point a new version of es.exe will be published that works in conjunction (via IPC) with 1.5 alpha (atm the current one states that IPC is unavailable)? Everything 1.5 must be running in the background for ES to work. When you run Everything 1.5 out of the box, it will use a named instance ...

I recommend using ES.exe , the Everything Command-line Interface, for that. It is a command-line utility to report and export your files in almost any format you can think of. ES.exe /? will give you the command-line options. Note: When reporting attributes that are not indexed, this will be slow. C...

I guess that is one of the GUI options that is still under development. If you want to preview plain-text files in a different font(size): the Windows preview uses the Notepad fon setting for that: - Exit Everything (right-click the Everyhing icon in the system tray and choose Exit) - Change the fon...

Did you check these? (slightly modified) Please make sure you are using the correct host name. Are you able to ping this host name from a command prompt? Please make sure Everything is running as a standard user on PC B + C. Could you please check the firewall on the Server. Please make sure the fir...

Another approach: install .EFU file association and context menu entries system wide. Make the langage specific "presentation" a user setting. That way you don't even have to elevate when the language changes. Here is how (warning: largely untested, but based on experience this mechanism should work...

You're welcome!

Don't forget to add CBR and CBZ to your list

(a longer list of ebook formats can be found here. Not all might be useful to you, though).

That is strange, indeed. Did you configure anything (inclusion or exclusion) under Menu:Tools > Options > Indexes > Exclude ? To make sure, also check the settings for your drive: Go to Menu:Tools > Options > Indexes > NTFS In the Local NTFS volumes: box, click on your drive Is there anything config...

Those files might be on a drive or in a folder that is not indexed by Everything. But if you saw those files i the past, that doesn't seem likely. Try a Force Rebuild: - Go to Menu:Tools > Options > Indexes - Press the Force Rebuild button - Press OK - Check the Everything statusbar to see when re-i...

So, let's see if I understood:

With the Everything filter enabled:
if you search for

ext:epub;mobi;pdf

, you find files.
if you search for

ext:epub;mobi;pdf;azw3

, you find NO files?

(please also report the searches you used)

Not what you asked for, but ...

Did you know that you can access the files on your Android device from your regular Everything?

First guess: you enabled a search option under Menu:Search. Make sure only Everything is enabled (so no Match Path, etc) You can also check the statusbar as i will show if you have a filter, a search option enabled or opened an EFU file. Double-clicking those - if enabled - will reset them to default.

There are more launchers that use Everything to find files: Wox, Keypirinha, ueli, Fluent Search.
You can find a list here, including links to those launchers.

(Definitely take a look at Fluent Search; its development goes at a crazy speed lately)

I have no solution for you at the moment - here Everything 1.5 is even faster than 1.4 - but someone else might. How do you exclude these folders? - By excluding them on the search bar (i.e. ext:doc !c:\windows) - By excluding them through a Filter (Menu:Search > Organize Filters) - Through Temporar...

That is less cool ... First guess: you sorted by something (like Size) that is not in the Everything database, which causes Everything to inspect every single file individually. Make sure that property is included in the database. For example, Size: Go to Menu:Tools > Options > Indexes Check Index f...

Good news, @skribb!

Recently - 4 weeks ago - the alpha version of Everything 1.5 was released.
In this 1.5 version you can mix folders and files!

If you want to test it (or simply use it; it is quite stable already): start here.

More info on new sorting possibilities here

I mainly use it because it can preview files in dark mode, including highlighting found serarch terms. But it is definitely much more than that. 415 stars is a lot for such a tool, I worked 20 years on staxrip to get 640 stars. Will depend on target audience I guess. A search tool is probably more m...

dnGrep. In their own words: a great Windows search utility that allows you to search across text files, Word and Excel documents, PDFs, and archives using text, regular expression, XPath, and phonetic queries. It can also replace text in those files. And a couple of other useful features. It can us...

aviasd wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 05, 2021 1:55 pm
it uses fzf for the selection

No need for external libraries. Try this:

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function cdf {
  param($dir)
  CD ( iex "es folder:$dir count:20 -sort runcount" | ogv -OutputMode Single)
}

@void can probably explain this much better, but I will take a shot ... Everything 1.4 could miss some hardlink updates as described above. Everything 1.5 (currently available as alpha version) *does* track hard links. Soft-links (symbolic links) is a different story Roughly speaking they are shortc...

You might be interested in the Everything Server , Kelly. I'm so glad that you've started work on this again. That started years ago! Thx. It's for personal use, don't think I need the server version. I've been using the http server functionality, but turned it off due to security concerns (?)... L...

I think a Home button will be more useful than the x button ("clean the search"). Took me a while to find it again, but you can remove the X from the search bar, Type the following in the search bar and press ENTER: /search_close_button=0 (open a new Everything window to see the effect. Or restart ...

I use CTRL+\ for that. They are next to each other in the left corner of my notebook keyboard. That also resets all Match .. settings and filters, etc to what I configured under Options > Home. It is an extra keyboard shortcut for Menu:History > Home, next to the less convenient ALT+HOME. If you hav...

If you didn't configure port forwarding in your router to this system/port combination, your http server should not be reachable from "outside"

Where do you highlight this text? In Notepad? In your browser? In Everything?

Now I think of it, this should be written as:

dm:10m..5m

. From low to high: 10 minutes ago (17:47) to 5 minutes ago (17:52)
For the record: that gives the same results as

dm:5m..10m

Don't clutter the Everything interface with buttons! Especially if they are for exceptional situations as described above. 1. There is a complex search that is not real-time. Press F5 ... And I agree with horst.epp: don't use it for re-indexing. Menu:Index > Rescan will take care of that if needed. ...

void wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 01, 2021 3:12 am
Everything 1.5 is 500,000+ lines of code.

They say a good developer writes 100 lines of code a day.
At least tell me that your 500K includes comments and empty lines ...

I'm at 4 lines a day ...

OK, I see (adn even tried it). In that case there is no use adding the database version.
(and in the process I learned how to get the database version out of a everything.db, so I'm good

)

The idea came from opening older databases (everything.exe -db backup.db -readonly) where you might want to know what version was used at that time.

But you are right: not really useful information for the end user. I doubt if I was ever going to need this.

Is it useful to add the database version to the Statistics?

aviasd wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 31, 2021 11:32 am
It would be easier to query something like all files modified between 5 to 10 minutes ago like so:
dm:>5min dm:<10min

Does this work for you?

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dm:5m..10m

Good point! (forgot about that completely)

... when Match whole filename when using wildcards is enabled.

The version was recently added as an option for the title bar / window caption ($v(
You can get your desired layout by typing the following in the search bar, followed by ENTER:

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/window_title_format=$t $v

More options for the title bar can be found here

I can help with the icon! I told you! You should have told me 46 aspirins ago!!! :D But yes, if you can: please! I don't have the tools, the knowledge and most important: the patience to get this done. As long as it is still a stylized Q / rotated power-switch I'm good [1]. And that the leg of the ...

Can't quite follow this. Please can you share an image? I can, but if this will help you ... This is what my Everything 1.5 looks like at the moment: 2021-03-30 19_18_13-1.5.0.1251a (x64).png In Everything 1.4 you can define one single colour theme. These color settings end up in the ini file of Ev...

Maybe. The search delay (the amount of milliseconds Everything waits between typing a search and actually starts searching) might be more useful as it has been asked for a couple of times. Another thought: Maybe promote the shell extension related setting (max_path, icon_shell_extension, etc) to the...

In the C:\Windows.old folder you can find the backup that Windows makes before starting the upgrade.
Those files and folders will be removed automatially after 30 days (IIRC).

If you still have enough space on your C:-drive, there is no need to delete it.

... which you would be able to find with the following query

^^ | $$

if you had match_start_of_filename_with_caret and match_end_of_filename_with_dollar_sign enabled.

void wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:31 am
or a Manual Management radio button could be added.

Yes, sorry, that is what I wanted to say: like the setup options.

Thanks for considering!

You might be interested in the Everything Server, Kelly.

kelly wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 28, 2021 7:44 pm
I'm so glad that you've started work on this again.

That started years ago!

The user interface is still in development, so I might speak too early, but Everything has grown adn the current Everything Options menu is less fitting for that (my opinion of course). At least: the General part. An alternative: (will take some time to get used to, btw) ** General Language Store se...

Ah, now I see! (earlier I just looked at the icons) The first one isn't an official Everything context menu entry. I guess you got it from here ? ;) Then you need to change the path to Everything in 2 places (marked bold). The first one is for the icon (just to be complete...) : Windows Registry Edi...

In the ini file of Everything 1.5, there are 2 color themes: one dark, one standard.
The one you copied over is the standard one.

When you switch to Standard ( Menu:View > Theme > Standard ), are your colors back?

The idea was to either operate in AutoSwitch mode - that will automatically switch folders - or present a list of open folders to choose from - what you see by default. When you don't want the list, you can get rid of it in a couple of ways: - press the ESCAPE key - press the ALT key - click somewhe...

That is a different colour! The 1.5 one is a bit more reddish (but I am slightly colourblind).

IIRC correctly, void changed it as the 1.4 icon looked 'brownish' on some older displays.

But we might get an entire new icon for 1.5 in the end, like this one or this one

Default, Everything will try to look for Bob and 2021 in the filename (without path)

If you want to search for bob and 2021 in the filepaths too, you can enable Match Path (in the menu, under Search)

If you repaort a question or issue with the alpha version of Everything 1.5 , please specify your version. That is important as almost every day a new version is released with changes, bug fixes and updates. Further: Your results are sorted by which column? For example, if your results are sorted by...

I have removed the show tooltips option from the Options UI. :thumbsup: /show_detailed_listview_tooltips=2 works well for me. The short tooltip for partially visible text doesn't bother me much as it doesn't block other rows. Besides: conditions for that to happen are very seldom met (no long paths...

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