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burgundy

How do I exclude shortcut links being listed in the results?

I have tried using *.lnk in Options > Indexes > Exclude but it does not do what I want. It doesn't seem to do anything although other filters in the list work fine.

I am using version 1.4 .

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What are the steps to import settings from two instances of Everything 1.4? I took the following steps but could not import bookmarks or filters. Please advise. --------------- For one instance of v1.5, I created a shortcut using the -INSTANCE parameter (just as before). I successfully imported the ...

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Thank you very much!

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Can the size of the text in the address bar be increased without affecting any other text?

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In Everything , type in the following search and press ENTER : /max_threads=1 If successful you should see max_threads=1 in the status bar for a few seconds. I sometimes need to repeat that max threads setting. Can the setting get undone? How can I check the current number of threads Everything uses?

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Thanks for the info. Performance (such as time needed for an index rebuild) is not likely to be an issue. The real issue is having a list of folders, removing them temporarily for the needs of certain searches, and then having to re-select the folders one by one all over again. My proposal would mak...

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Some suggestions: Please try lowering the number of threads Everything uses to 1 (ideally this should be max logical CPUs - 1): In Everything , type in the following search and press ENTER : /max_threads=1 If successful you should see max_threads=1 in the status bar for a few seconds. @Void, that M...

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Ah, I think I get it now ... When Everything is behind with keeping up what was typed, the idea is to stop whatever Everything was doing when an ENTER was pressd and continue with the entire serach query that was typed. Thanks for the eyeopener. Is that what you suggested, @burgundy? @Notnull, yes ...

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I use Everything on a slow machine with many volumes. I have enabled the setting for "Search As You Type". Sometimes I finish typing the search term but Everything is still dealing the earlier letters I keyed in. It can take 4 or 5 seconds to complete. Would it be possible for Everything to search f...

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I suggest a check box to enable/disable additional folders.

The folders are found at Options > Indexes > Folders.

There is already a similar check box to enable/disable "Excluded" folders (located in the same area of Options).

burgundy

I downloaded and installed version 1.4.1.1002 but can't find the changelog to show what's new since the previous version. Where on this site should it appear? Is the best place the nightly build thread which only lists a few changes https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=34007 or is there s...

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I would ask that void make all filters into bookmarks, and then add [x] Show in Filter List as an option. This might also lead to a [x] Show in Bookmarks Toolbar feature as well. #offtopic #selfaware I'm still struggling to remember the distinction between filters and bookmarks but what you suggest...

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I want to create a macro to save typing in all the synonyms of a term I am searching for.

For example, instead of typing

document OR letter OR correspondence OR memo

I need to type only this if I have set up a macro

corr:

Is it better to define the macro as a filter or bookmark?

burgundy

void wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 23, 2020 5:11 am
Yes. Although, Everything 1.5 is still in development.

I'll keep my eyes open! Thank you so much for all the time and effort you have put into Everything. It is appreciated.

burgundy

Is there any news about the feature to toggle columns between user defined width and full width? Also path ellipsis.

I'm keen for more and more!

burgundy

void wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 05, 2019 1:42 am
The next version of Everything will also have a search delay option which may help alleviate the issue.

Has the delay feature been implemented yet?

I couldn't find "delay" in the box for "show commands containing" in keyboard options.

burgundy

That works nicely. Much obliged!

Out of interest, is there a way to specify the drive letter or the JPG file extension within a regex?

I mean when Everything is set to Menu > Search > Enable Regex

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The date syntax on that page permits "/" as a delimiter within the date string but that doesn't work. Nor do date constants work (such as "today"). Does this work for you? (works here): file: dm:01/12/2019..31/12/2019 file: dm:lastweek..yesterday file: dm:today @notnull All your three examples work...

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I want to find all files from CIMG0001 to CIMG9999 on the D: drive As far as I can tell, I need to use regex although I am not very good at it! I get this far: CIMG[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] (Q1) How do I also specify the D: drive in regex? (Q2) How do I specify JPG files in regex? Sometimes my file names...

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I want to define a macro to save keying in equivalent words. Is this best done as a Search (filter) or as a Bookmark?

For example I want to use this in the search bar:

liz:

to save keying in this:

liz OR betty OR elisabeth OR elsie

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file: dm:20190901-20191231 (file: if you only want to see files. date format may depend on locale? That works well. I notice it is mentioned vaguely as "function syntax" on https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/searching/ The date syntax on that page permits "/" as a delimiter within the dat...

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How do I specify a date range? For example, between Sept 2019 to Dec 2019 including those months.

I get strange results (including files from many years ago) when I use the following. I am in the UK and my PC is set to use DDMMYYY.

dc:>1/sep/2019 dc:<31/dec/2019

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(3) shown full PATH. Added to my TODO list: Add a keyboard shortcut to toggle columns between user defined width and full width. Thanks for the suggestion. Hiya David. Are you any closer to implementing this change? We discussed this and a few other things in this thread which would be great if you...

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This file does not get very defragmented in normal use. However when I turn on a setting in Everything it seem to get fragmented very quickly. I am thinking of the settings "Enable USB Journal" or "Load Recent Changes" . I haven't determined which of these two makes the difference. Would a fragmente...

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I am using WinXP and my defragger finds this file is highly fragments with 80 parts:

$Extend\$UsnJrnl:$J

It seems to be something to do with Everything. Should I be worried and what can I do about this?

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I have a hidden folder containing user data (documents, photos, video clips, etc).

Everything does not index this folder. Is there a way to have this indexed?

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void wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 30, 2019 11:04 am
Adding a NTFS volume as a folder index will show duplicated results.

Would it be possible to include a feature to enable/disable all the named folders, in the same way as happens for the Exclude list?

burgundy

I get duplicate entries in the results if I specify a folder in Options and also the same drive in Options.

Is there a way to remove these duplicate results?

It would be useful to suspend all named folders for such occasions, in the same way as for the Exclude list.

burgundy

I have set Search History (in Options > History) to 120 days. (1) However the search dropdown shows only 12 entries. How can I see more entries in the dropdown? (2) There is a file called "Search History.csv" in my Everything folder. It has over 500 entries. Can I see its contents using Everything o...

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I have a very old AMD Duron 1800 processor which has no SSE2 support. I run WinXP. The setting for max threads seems to change. I set it to "1" but some time later I noticed Everything was sluggish again so I reset max threads to "1" and it improved. Does some action on Everything change max threads?

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If you find Search As You Type making the Everything UI unresponsive, please consider reducing the max threads used by Everything: In Everything , type in the following search and press ENTER : /max_threads=1 where 1 is the maximum number of threads. Try increasing this to improve search performanc...

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I use Everything on a slow PC and sometimes "Search As You Type" works slowly.

I can go into the User Interface page in Options to disable it but that is tedious to do frequently.

Would it be possible to include "Search As You Type" as one of the commands that you can assign a hotkey?

burgundy

That works. Thank you.

burgundy

I don't want to use Everything's built-in image preview. If I have some jpegs in the result list and press <enter> then my default image viewer is launched and I see the jpeg. However when I close down the external image viewer and return to Everything, the focus has moved from the results list (whe...

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I was trying that keyboard combinations (ALT + LEFT) when the focus was on the results list.

From your post, I see I can use ALT + LEFT provided the focus is in the search bar. Thank you.

Can I make that keyboard shortcut also work when the result list is focused?

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Is there a hotkey or command to list the results of the previous search? At the moment, to do this I have to display the search history and then select the previous search. It would be much more effective if I could use a key combination such as "ALT plus LEFT ARROW" to view the previous results. An...

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Thanks for taking this on board.

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I notice that if a filter and a bookmark have the same name then the bookmark takes precedence.

It would be nice if Everything could detect this clash and warn the user if they try to create an entry whose name has already been used.

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Or do you mean another place where the keyboard shortcuts should be shown? There is a second thing I would like to suggest, partly connected to the first one. To help avoid conflicts with other shortcut keys, I would like to see a feature where I could enter a shortcut key in Tools > Options > Keyb...

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Or do you mean another place where the keyboard shortcuts should be shown? I meant something slightly different to what you discussed. I meant showing the shortcut keys against the entries seen in the the filter dropdown. I think Void has understood what I meant. Here is a link to a screen shot of ...

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Would it be possible to show in the filter dropdown which shortcut keys are assigned to the filters? There's probably enough room to show this aligned against the right edge of the dropdown box. There's certainly plenty of room for a wider filter box if necessary. It's just my idea. Hope you conside...

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Search | Organize Filters... -> New... -> Name: mynewsearch, Search: cabalamin|b-12|b12, Macro: CB Then you can search for CB: I've just realised this works only for file names. Not for folder names. (1) If you have set "Search > Match Path", then searching for "B12" will also find files which do N...

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Coming back to the original question, is there a way to apply a filter using shortcut key when the focus is on the search bar? I don't want to move focus to the results list in order to apply a filter. I don't apply a filter first as the results may be simple enough not to need filtering. I simply w...

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Search | Organize Filters... -> New... -> Name: mynewsearch, Search: cabalamin|b-12|b12, Macro: CB Then you can search for CB: That works well. Thank you. I imagine there's enough room in that list for a few dozen synonyms. However I feel such synonyms don't really belong in the filter list and the...

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Can I set up synonyms for a search term?

For example, I have some documents with "cobalamin" in the name but other documents use "B12" and yet others use "B-12".

I would like to enter a single search term to find documents with any of those terms. Is this possible?

burgundy

In the proposed 3 stage shortcut for seeing the PATH, I wonder if there's a way to have an option for a right-adjusted view of the PATH name.

It's nearly always more important to see the last folders in the path than the first folders.

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void wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 07, 2019 8:55 am
I've fixed an issue with showing search history suggestions above the search box.

If you would like to try this, please try Everything 1.4.1.944:

Thank you. That works well.

I must remember how to change that if I need to in future!

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This is a bug. Please try Everything 1.4.1.944 . This version fixes an issue with saving the width and position of result list headers. The new version works great. Thank you for being so responsive! I am so pleased with the way I can toggle the PATH column between my custom width setting and hidde...

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Thank you for explaining it so clearly. The options seem very flexible. However is there a way to configure the following: How do I toggle the PATH column between (1) not visible and (2) the column width I set manually? Let me explain the need. Occasionally there is one file with very long path whic...

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Technically, the PATH column in the results list can be very wide (over 200 characters). Would it be possible to have a hotkey to collapse the width of the PATH column or to make it disappear entirely, in order to read the other columns (such as date, size, etc) on the right hand side. I sometimes u...

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