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Maybe it isn't so straightforward then...

If so, perhaps then a useful amendment would be enhancing the F2 approach mentioned. I am thinking it would be useful for example if there was a discrete button that could launch the contents of the lower pane in one's favourite text editor such as Notepad4 ...

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Sort of, which is some help as a thought, but it presumes the files being edited are all nicely in one place otherwise you have to keep pressing F2 a lot in order to get into that mode.
I'm thinking the mode I'd suggested would be pretty straightforward code-wise, equivalent to 3 clicks in the spot ...

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Sometimes one has to rename a lot of files, and the existing (common) system of clicking three times (click file, click again to rename highlighting all the name, click a third time to choose the point of edit), is very cumbersome.
It would be nice if there was an "edit mode" whereby wherever you ...

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So I'll suggest a rephrase of the matter for consideration...

content: (no value) where (presumably) content is not indexed shouldn't need to do a slow content scan (at least under an ordinary interpretation of a file composed of just space being treated as having content which appears to be the ...

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A "sort of" bug I think.
when you type content: it starts searching through contents for a zero-length string, which is a redundant action, I think content: should be ignored if its parameter has no length, and only start looking when there is a parameter.
I also suspect it doesn't need to check ...

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Perhaps a variation on this would be to have a search criterion, a command that is acted (either 1-by-1 or as a single call), and a frequency of check. I don't think scheduling would need to be very sophisticated, but a little bit of control.

So for example the search criterion might be ...

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Currently you can drag-drop a file onto the Path text in the results window to drop the file there.
I tend also to use a 'Parent Name' column which is more often in view, would it be possible to also allow drop onto that with all the same logic? Presumably trivial to do, but would be very handy ...

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I would second that, I would advise everyone to move to the latest 1.5 -

https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9787#download

although called an alpha, it's generally at production quality with anything important raised generally quickly looked into. I wouldn't say that of many programs ...

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A few suggestions for the Undo History that should be trivial in implementing -

* Right-click menu could have "Explore (New Tab)", "Explore (New Window)" and also "Open Registered Program".

* Double-Clicking currently undoes but instinctively one expects double-clicking to open in a registered ...

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I wonder, as it's probably trivial to do, would it be possible to give Everything windows a "group name" (set per window) so that when you focus one (making it on top of other windows) it also brings the other windows of the same group name up too (including drag-over popup focus), and likewise if ...

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Currently when you have items selected and you change a folder, it maintains the selection as much as it can, which was a change a little while back.
That continues to be very useful to me and hopefully for others too.
What I also find is that when I change the search box, I also want the selection ...

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It would be very useful during particular tasks to colourise the writing of folder names in the folder bar where they match a certain condition.
For example you could right-click the Folderbar title, choose "Colourise by search equation..." and give it an equation; let's suppose the equation is d ...

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Currently you can right-click a tab and Duplicate it.

It would be extremely handy to have a "Duplicate Active Tab" command we can add a shortcut to. This would make it easy at the press of a key to "branch off" from anything and then close and you are back to the exact state you branched off from ...

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When you drag-drop a folder to a new tab position, it fills the search box with its path and so shows the results.
In fact, on every single occasion, what I would like would be for it to explore the path rather than fill the search bar. I'm sure I won't be alone in this.
It would be ideal if there ...

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I recall separate programs to do this, which could be added as a folder right-click.
Other option is to have somewhere a window of tiny thumbnails to force a large number to thumb.
I would add that thumbnail creation on my computer slows down considerably when too many pictures have been thumbed ...

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One additional point about a seggregated view, is that you see all the files. If you had views you switch between to try to get something similar, then it will be easy to forget there are other files present in the folder.

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The filter name is used in the tab title by default, and is often wanted in it.
The filter name may be longish so it would be handy to for a filter setting a box where you can enter an abbreviate/mnemonic name that can be used and referred to in tight situations such as tab titles, as e.g ...

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I use the tab to go from one item rename to the next all the time, I simply would die without it :) :) Its use becomes apparent when you want to rename a lot of items one by one, and if you sort them not by name but by e.g. modified date then they don't jump about as you rename one to the next.
The ...

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That's probably the best that can be done through existing means but would constantly switch back and forward between two search results and lose file selections and if done by shortcut lose any existing filter, so the kind of situation the new idea is to avoid... having a single results list view ...

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There are several view settings, but none are ideal for folders or results that are a mixture of images and non-images because you end up with a lot of giant document icons or previews mixed with images.
This could be solved if there were a new view where certain filetypes (typically non-images ...

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Tested without actually dropping and it looks fantastically easier to drop things now! Many thanks! - d

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Actually I think this may be a good solution. Under Options - General - Context Menu - there could be a "Rescan Folder" option that can be selected to show like the other context menu items there, then whenever you want to rescan a folder you can right-click the folder of interest and Rescan it ...

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I'm finding that when I'm working with tabs, there are a few I'm focussed on and a few kept for occasional use. So I might have 4 working tabs, and 3 occasional ones. But that's quite a lot to have all in one continuous block on the left all looking the same. I think this will be a common problem ...

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Currently the File List Editor has sort functionality.
I think it would benefit from a basic filter too to aid with finding items for removal etc. Probably just a simple pattern match will do with the wildcards not capturing slash for the default, and a regexp for those who like that, and something ...

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For one-off searches, a separate standard searcher like AgentRansack can also be used. d

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Great - that works! and $command looks a good move.

* As an extra idea, when setting the context menu items I bet there are a couple of values that are very commonly used - so I think there could be a drop-list at the "Command" box ends that allow easy click-to-fill of those common values, with ...

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Currently if you sort these three items they come out as a Natural Sort -

193q-07-15 ...
1910-11-23 ...
1945-03-13 ...

With 193 counted numerically earlier than 1910
That is a common need but of course in this case they are dates with q representing an unknown part of the year so you would want ...

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Currently I have Open (Folders) set to $exploreineverything("%1")
So I double-click a folder and it navigates there.

However there are some imperfections here that need resolving.

* The big one is that on double-clicking the folder I not only want it to navigate to the folder, but to clear the ...

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All fine now! - d

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It would be quite useful if Fonts and Colors had a style for Folders Sidebar/Results List for "Normal" that applies when an item had been touched in some way within a specified time, default 1 hour (user set, perhaps with a limit, tracking maybe lost on exit), defaulting to "same as Normal" so it's ...

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When you are editing a folder name in the folder bar and the mousewheel scrolls the list, the edit vanishes.
This doesn't occur in the results list.
d

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Presumably the "Explore in New Tab" when you right-drag onto the title of the folderbar - d

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Thanks - Duplicate Tab will be useful! David

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If it's clunky I'd give other options a try out. I've never looked back from SlickRun, I'm sure there may be others.
I have it set up so that it is small and mostly transparent permanently floating in the area I want it with date and time but when focussed into for typing (Win-N is my hotkey ...

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Yes both, as they are completely different use cases.
SlickRun you can assign all manner of actions to a code, quite a lot of which are calling up Everything in a certain state suitable for some regular task.
I might for example have recently launched libreoffice writer which my code is lwriter ...

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Just to add to this that SlickRun which I use for most customised launches - one of those mnemonic launchers - does calculations by preceding by =

I'm sure there may also be other "always-on" programs that are similarly adept.

D

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Few things are more annoying than dragging a file and accidentally passing a shortcut to an offline network drive or executable, whereupon it hangs for ages before releasing you to continue. It's just done it now in Everything much as happens in Explorer.

Is there any way of preventing this ...

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I didn't have any luck using this in a custom column, I tried a few permutations - how would one use it in the format of -

addcolumn:a a:=.........

Many thanks! David

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That works for me.

Is there a plan to implement it on the folderbar too (decided by where the drop actively will be)? I think that's where it will prove especially useful.

David

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That seems to work!

I've set tabs_load_in_background=true because usually I'll want that, although I can see cases where background is useful, such as if you ctrl-drop several folders one-by-one onto the folder bar title. Perhaps I'll end up making a toggle shortcut if there proves a need ...

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Thanks that works for me (Ctrl-Shift-Enter) - d

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That's certainly a good speed for both.
It would probably become significant if for each file you had a need to sub-lookup using pattern-matching.
David

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I can say from VBA that the simple wildcard "Like" function is vastly faster than the Regex function, which becomes important when it has to be applied millions of times. I have a vague memory of measuring it many years back and it being 10x as fast although the "Like" function was a direct part of ...

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Actually I think this would be a good example of where a variable for the currently-selected sidebar directory would be useful on the lines of
/rescan $directory
so you would then make a bookmark and tie a keyboard shortcut to rescan based on the folderbar folder chosen (or path commonality if ...

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Thanks! I'll bookmark that snippet, and I see the multiple schedule idea is already there.

* Can I suggest under that folders tab it could say something like " (subfolders of existing scans with different schedules can be added)"

This particular one arose with NTFS-NTFS over USB2-ethernet to ...

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Network folder scanning is a little temporamental (it is on 'monitor changes').
Often you do something and Everything instantly reflects it. But sometimes it appears to be very slack in doing so.
I mentioned once before the idea of Everything noting your file action performed in everything to do a ...

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I suspect what's needed is a universal setting that affects everything, that can then be tied to a shortcut (directly or via bookmark).
So whenever you need / or \\ or any other format you hit the shortcut and everything changes to that. You do whatever you need e.g. copying then hit a shortcut to ...

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There's a good interest in using Everything for handling duplicates.
Can I suggest there be a "Delete (Dupe-Safe)" command somewhere, perhaps under "Edit - Advanced", and an action command a shortcut can be assigned to.
Basically you want to remove duplicates, so you would do a dupe: search of all ...

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Just looking at the dupe function.
Currently there's no natural menu-method to do the rather common requirement of finding duplicates by Modified and Size.
You have to do that using something like
file: dupe:date-modified;size groupcolors:
Now you can right-click to find Modified dupes and then ...

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This hasn't occurred for me before and isn't repeatable but it may stimulate thinking that gives some idea of what could have been happening.
I had an exFAT RAM Drive "R:" selected, and dragged two of its items to another tab where there was a VBS script which I dropped them onto.
Thereafter when I ...

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