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therube wrote: ↑
Thu May 26, 2022 3:51 pm
(I'd much rather have a FAYT, Find As You Type-like, feature in Everything.)

That is already implemented: focus the resultlist and start typing (not too slow; just like in File Explorer)

Much more apparent on a LONG document/

I tested with the Directory Opus PDF manual; 1300+ pages, 14 MB

So I downloaded and installed the latest version of AutoIt. Not a big success btw [1] , but at least I can access the context menus. These are the .au3 context menus of File Explorer (left) and Everything (right) side-by-side. The Open at the top of the Everything context menu always represents the ...

(untetsted)

Does this work?

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!"_files\"    !endwith:_files

!"_files\" removes the content of folders that end with _files from the list
!endwith:_files removes these folders (or filenamess that end with _files) itself from the list.

Reading the SumatraPDF changelog I came across: faster scrolling with mouse wheel when cursor over scrollbar And although it doesn't seem to work (yet/here) as advertised, I like the idea of an option to (occasionally) scroll faster, beside dragging the scroll-indicator scroll box around. Or changin...

Thank you. /poll_opened_files_rate=3000 is the sweetspot for this system. It gives enough time to take the snapshot and process the information before the next polling takes pace. No need to change the defaults though. As said this is a really slow system (on purpose). My 2 year old i5 CPU is 25 tim...

Which option was shown in a bold font in the context menu? Open? Run? Edit?

Also: What is the (Default) value the registry under HKCU\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\fileext\.au3\userchoice

When running your command. Another approach would be not to re-use the existing (running) Everything, but to use a separate instance. Even when your regular Everything is running as (elevated) administrator, this should work, because it starts a new process under your login account: " c:\path to\eve...

Were you running the Everything.exe -create-file-list 500projects.efu "P:\Projects\500\" command under a different user account (different from you login account)? Did you see the User Account Control (UAC) prompt? That can happen if you are running Everything as administrator. Recommended is to ins...

And searching for "P:\Projects\500\" does not return all subfolders and files?

Everything: - does "-create-file-list" actually scan the path or just use it as a search parameter to give results from the index? Everything scans the path (using user credentials). Resultd do not come from the index. ES: - does "-export-efu" scan the path or just give index results? Results come ...

That used to be possible with XUL based Firefox extensions (up until version 57 from 2017). After that a new engine (Quantum) was introduced thta makes these things no longer an option. Unfortunately, I have to say. I miss that every day (for example: mouse gestures don't work on these pages, includ...

about:about

gives you a clickable list of all these pages.
(Most of these names are self-explanatory)

BTW: Everything (1.5) also has about:about . It was inspired by Firefox

Probably a Windows shortcoming and not Everythings fault, but for example opened-by:everything64.exe utilizes 37-50% of available CPU here. Admitted: CPU is outdated and underpowered, but that is still way more than I expected. For reference: perfmon.exe (Resource Monitor) uses 5% CPU for the same (...

The exclamation mark ! is part of the Everything syntax. It means NOT: !C:\Windows = NOT C:Windows. For a literal ! you can enclose your file-/ foldername in double quotes. If file/foldernames contain a space, it also needs to be enclosed in "" This should give the desired results: audio: "c:\Users\...

In Everything 1.5, you can use the online: function

(the function is under construction in the current alpha version, but will be fully operational soon)

Everything 1.4 does not have his online: function or similar.

Whne you open the EFU file in a text editor, are these properties listed? If not: Before exporting to an EFU file: - make sure all relevant properties are listed (= columns are added) - select all files - press 'CTRL + SHIFT + E' (or Menu:File > Read Extended Information) to gather this information....

You are right: a bit unintuitive.

Would it help if the OK button text gets changed to "Save"? Or adding an extra "Save" button?

@harryray2:
There is also an Everything 1.5 Alpha forum. Please post your 1.5 related questions over there.

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Replacing your actual username with "user" is perfectly fine. Even better! (privacy is important)

As @void asked:

void wrote: ↑
Sun May 22, 2022 9:19 am
What is your exact search?

Without that, helping you gets tricky ...
(please use the code tags (the [</>] button) when posting to prevent the loss of information)

Everything 1.4 - the version you installed on the server - is able to do a content search too, but this information is not saved in the database. Meaning that Everything has to read these files on-the-fly from disk. You can use the content: function for that. For exampe: content:"some text" Best pra...

For that, you need Everything 1.5:

- Right-click the result list header (for example on "Name")
- From the context menu select Audio > Length (and/or Video > Length)
- Done!

Do you search from a client or on the server itself? One client or multiple?
What do you mean by "context search"? Content search (searching in the content of files)?
Is it possible to install Everything on the server?

Everything is for searching/finding files and folders.

For what you want, you need a 3rd party application launcher. Here are the ones that use Everything for finding files.
(Not sure if all of those support what you want)

Menu:Tools > Options > General > Show Search Everything folder context menu item

know there is a CLI version of Everything but that is just for getting search result in a terminal window right? not actually controlling the graphical Everything window right? Right. The command-line version - ES.exe - talks to a running Everything to get a list of files from Everything's database...

It sounds like I misunderstood the question.
What do you mean by "set 'use previous value' in options", @harryray2?

'ALT + LEFT'

Manually changing dates of forum-posts is technically possible, but is not possible through the forum interface. It requires changing the database tables directly. So the practical answer is: No, you will have to revisit the forum from time to time to keep up with all the new "toys" ;) (especially d...

Solutions for most common causes that prevent showing results: - Make sure that under Menu:Search *only* Everything is selected (so no Match .., Ignore .. , etc). - Make sure Hide results when the search is empty is disabled (Menu:Tools > Options > General > Results) - Close the Folders sidebar - Do...

Stamimail wrote: ↑
Wed May 18, 2022 10:48 pm
Do you get only 1 file in index (1 object)?
I get the file and its parent (2 objects)

Still it looks too complicated.

I get the same (2 objects).
Further investigating this would mean more waste of time as this is not a real world scenario.

[NTFS]
Settings for Local Disk (C:)
Include only = C:\folder\

[Exclude]
Exclude folders > Add Filter = c:\folder\*\
Include only files = c:\folder\my file.txt

I don't know why single files can't be added in this way

Don't know. Maybe because a file is not a folder?

void wrote: ↑
Wed May 18, 2022 12:09 pm
TAB currently auto completes ini settings

Nice!! (so TAB is doable after all ..)

PowerShell has a brilliant (imo) universal command-completion option. Type (gi .\file.txt). followed by 'CTRL + SPACE' to see the effect. (file.txt is an existing file) Or Get-Item - followed by 'CTRL + SPACE' 'CTRL + SPACE' is already in use in Everything (complete search based on search history), ...

Stamimail wrote: ↑
Tue May 17, 2022 8:26 am
Question - Why didn't you choose the form:

They all follow the Verb-Noun syntax/format.

Idea to change the order of the forums. Currently: Announcements, Support ... Everything 1.5 Alpha Suggestion: Announcements, Everything 1.5 Alpha, Support ... That will make more people aware of the existence of version 1.5 (assuming that is desirable?). Also to help people to post in the right for...

Attempt #2 produces 0 objects which was expected Not expected by me ... should return results. Another way of explaining this would be: "show me all projects containing the node_modules folder regardless of level depth Ah, the fog is lifting. That wasn't clear from your original question. You need ...

Ok, I assumed you wanted the parent folder of these node_modules folders.

Attempt #2 ... Does the following search produce the results you expect?

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"E:\project-backups\"  exact:folder:node_modules

(the "" are not needed if the real path doesn't contain a space)

Suggestion was for Win10. Can't remember how Win7 did this.

using the following search parameters You forgot something ;) The child: function might do what you want. child:cmd.exe shows all folders that contain a file/folder directly beneath it with cmd.exe in the name exact:child:cmd.exe does the same, but for a file/folder with the exact name "cmd.exe"

In Everything 1.5 the updates will be processed in the background when Everything is started. That means that Everything 1.5 is ready for your searches right from the start. In Everything 1.4 - which you are using, I presume - you can enable Start Everything on system startup to let Everything run i...

Drag with RMB instead.

Same question as in this recent similar thread:

What is the last rebuild reason reported under Tools -> Debug -> Statistics -> Build -> Last Rebuild Reason?

Topic moved to the Everything 1.5 Alpha forum. Please post there next time.

there's some redundancy overlap with separate "Excludes" and "Omits" functions (if I'm understanding what you're saying) and it may be beneficial merging their functionalities. There are similarities, which would make one think that the entries could be combined, with an Exclude/Omit radiobutton pa...

hi all i have 8 hd ad love this program is fantastic, and i use this on firefox to easy find eventual duplicate file, i have a question, is possible to use the same function on chrome?, i try to look on chrome store with no result, can you help me? How do you do this? Using this method ? (Can't hel...

Everything keeps the indexed content in RAM. It is likely that you included too many files for the amount of available RAM. @void wrote about this subject: Everything will keep content in memory. Content indexing is intended for indexing user documents only. I do not recommend indexing over 1GB of t...

Check out Everything 1.5 . With that version you can - enable the Folders sidebar (Menu:View > Folders) and - 'CTRL + CLICK' the drives you want to search. Select 'Everything' in the Folders sidebar to show ... everything again :) (Or double-click the "C:|T:" (or whatever drives/folders you selected...

If there is no app_data=1 (*with* underscore; you are correct), there is just one Everything.ini that contains all your settings. No need to add app_data=0. Size of your Everything.ini should be around 21 KB. Your method should work. What settings are different? Indexing-settings is to be expected a...

When the Everything.ini in the program folder contains a setting appdata=1 , a second Everything.ini extists with the majority of your settings. This second Everything.ini is located in %APPDATA%\Everything , which usually translates to c:\users\your_name\Appdata\Roaming\Everything. Before copying t...

If you want to search *only* in a specific folder, you can exclude all other files/folders permanently from being included in Everything: Check if the drive is listed under Menu:Tools > Options > Indexes. If that is the case: Select the drive in the Local NTFS volumes: box Fill in the folder to be s...

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