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froggie

The Everything.ini you posted is the one that resides in the directory that Everything.exe is in. As NotNull said, there is another Everything.ini in %APPDATA%\Everything\Everything.ini . Just use Everything to search for Everything.ini to find it. Take a look at that one. It has about 700 lines in ...

froggie

Also 7-zip (file compression program) and Norton anti-virus are missing in some context menus through Everything (.gz files, for example). Maybe what these programs have in common is that they use dynamic context menus (with a .dll file) instead of fixed entries in the registry.

froggie

yes. See http://www.voidtools.com/support/everyt ... _instances for the details.

froggie

Everything does not index content, but it can search for it. It is slow if you have many files, but quite reasonable if you can limit the size of the search:

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Somefiles  docx content:lookforme

froggie

Can you access them from Windows explorer?

froggie

The short answer is no. There is no good way of telling what changed the date of a directory entry. Even if you figured out some way to correlate the changes and this date change, it would be unstable - other things might change the date in the future. It is just not the way to do it. Everything is ...

froggie

Yes they sometimes do. For example, if I fat-fingered part of a file name , say "financial" it will not show up when I search for all of my "financial" files. Everything has many features I do not use, but are useful to others.

froggie

How about adding a file name spellcheck option to Everything. I can not find any programs with this capacity built in.

froggie

Fails in 877 too, except it does not change search to match case. FWIW, the registry on my Windows 7 machine for .pdf has had many changes to it, with different version of Acrobat & Adobe reader being installed and uninstalled, so it might be different then the code expects. Debug log has been sent....

froggie

Hi Void -

Tried to preview pdf files with 1.4.1.885. Everything hangs (not a cpu loop); After canceling & restarting, Search options have been changed from Match Path to Match Case ! Have a debug file, if you want it.

froggie

If your five fields are adjacent to each other and are single words / numbers (or multiples joined by "_") you might be able to use regex to do your searching. Something like: regex:"field1\s*field2\s*field3" so regex"red\s*house\s*\123" will find files named red house 123 and red house 123 if you w...

froggie

-startup switch

Everything.exe -startup

froggie

Tools>Options>General>UI uncheck Run in Background

There is overhead in writing out the database each time Everything ends, extra writes to the SDD, overhead in starting the process, etc.
Unless you are a very infrequent user or your system is constrained it might just be better to leave it running.

froggie

Nice idea.

There was a music file management program that I used to use that had a right-click "exclude from current view" option. I used it a lot.

froggie

Not the one in Tools=>Options. Select Search from the tool bar and check Match Path.

froggie

I'm surprised no resourceful programmer has written a reliable and versatile script-based wizard to do that for any program. It could just ask for the executable's full name and path and a required shortcut name and place the resultant shorcut on the desktop by default, or optionally elsewhre. Whil...

froggie

- Not every file is actually stored on your X: drive. The $MFT reserves space for some file attributes that have variable sizes (like the filename itself or the security settings). That means that most of the time there is some extra space (typically 400-800 bytes). If it is a very small file that ...

froggie

paulhurm wrote:
Doing the search and adding "!LNK" at the end seems to work. (Without the quote marks)

I

The filter I have been using for a while is

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 !e:\*.lnk

Obviously for drive e:, which is not necessary, but you should include the period.

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 !.lnk

froggie

void wrote: A lot of things could be improved with these types of messages, but they might be annoying to some..

How about "enable" "cancel" "do not show this prompt again" with an associated ini preference for each type of prompt.

froggie

Recall that I have recently done a reinstall so install defaults are in place. Paul Not necessarily. That is why I asked about deleting the .ini files. Everything will try to preserve .ini file contents on an install. If there is some setting there that is causing the problem, just reinstalling the...

froggie

Under Indexes=>NTFS for each disk, do you have Include in database, Enable USN Journal & Monitor Changes checked?

When you reinstalled Everything, did you delete all copies of Everything.ini first ?

froggie

Tiny DM: Bug (1.4.1.877)

dm:***** where ***** is a any invalid date or random letters is evaluated as DM:2000. This is not true for da:,dr: or dc:

froggie

Try

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<parent:c:|parent:d:> folder:    FOO

froggie

Void- A Debug_Log of restoring "TestNote.note". Afterwards, Everything showed it in both its real folder and in $Recycle.bin. It took a force reload to clean up the $recycle.bin display. I never noticed before that Windows creates two files for each deleted file in the recycle bin. 2017-04-02 17:23:...

froggie

How about:

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dm:last2days

you might want to index date modified

froggie

Try having BG exit between steps 4 and 5. I believe the database on disk is only written when Everything exits. The is also a file permission conflict if BG is writing the database when FG has it open for read

froggie

Just a single .csv file?

Try Notepad++ (even better with the Search+ plugin), any spreadsheet program (EXCEL, LibreOffice, etc), or just plain Notepad or Wordpad

froggie

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Tools>Options>General>Results>Hide results when search is empty

check or uncheck as you like

froggie

void wrote:Please double check by selecting all the results and opening the property page (Alt + Enter).
Check the file count is 0.

Wonderful! That will save me a lot of time. Yet another feature of Everything - properties across multiple files/folders on multiple drives.

froggie

If you create a .cmd or .bat file with the line

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c:\Everything\Everything.exe -path %CD%

in it (adjusted appropriatly for your installation of Everything), and figure out how to trigger it with a hot key, it will open Everything in the current directory.

froggie

When using the Empty: function, the folders found might not really be empty, depending on filters, excludes, hard links and recent updates. So before I delete or move a folder found with Empty:, I open it to be sure it is really empty. This obviously can take a long time for many folders. Would you ...

froggie

how about

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-(149|15\d|160)\d\d

froggie

Have you tried going to Tools>Options>Indexes>NTFS and unchecking "Include in Database" for the device drive letter?

froggie

Nits: To use search commands, enter in one of the following commands in the search box: When you do the help for this It might be better as ".........enter in one of the following in the search box and then press ENTER", since enter is not usually used on the Everything command line. Any About:.... ...

froggie

If I understand correctly /ini_option <value> ini_option can be any ini key name. is persistent (it updates the ini file) How about adding "/ini_option ? " to display the current value of ini_option How about putting the ini file in the same order as the ini page, with occasional comments in the fil...

froggie

You need double quotes for names with spaces - filename1 input parameters work because there are no spaces in its names

froggie

How about just using the Send command to put a shortcut on the desktop:

http://www.basiccomputerinformation.ca/ ... -shortcut/

froggie

That would assume that the only location for everything.exe is C:\everything.

That is not the case. The shortcut would depend on the location chosen by the user and thus could not be packaged in the .zip.

froggie

Thank you for the reference. Now I have it working.

froggie

Does not seem to work at all Everything Version 1.4.1.781b (x64) Windows NT 6.1 Processors 4 IsAdmin 0 AppData 1 Service 1 ........ new results search 'shell:games' filter '' sort 2 SET SORT 2 no search history hwn found 0 folders, size 0, db search time taken: 0.000026 seconds found 0 files, size 0...

froggie

Ramses2 wrote: In a same folder how can I show a list of sub folders that only contain mp3 files but not the individual files themself?

with the match path search option on:
foldername child:.mp3

or without match path :
\foldername child:.mp3

froggie

The window that Everything displays asking the user to choose "Run as Admin", "Install Everything Service", or "Do Not index NTFS" has "Run as Admin" first & pre-selected. Might it be better to put the "Install Everything Service" first (pre-selected and perhaps "recommended"), since that appears to...

froggie

therube wrote:What version of Everything?
You might be running into, http://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopi ... 418#p15418.

Tried both 1.4.0.713b & 1.4.1.727b. Same results either way.

froggie

Another example, which may make this easier to understand, the search: \downloads foo.mkv is two search terms, \downloads AND foo.mkv , only \downloads will match paths (because it contains a \), whereas foo.mkv will not match paths. Just to understand the search syntax better: \downloads (or path:...

froggie

32-bit version looks to be working. (Running sandboxed, Win7 x64) looks to store its settings in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\voidPad. Tried 32 bit version, it does save its settings, context menu does not work here either. No Void.... key in registry for 64-bit version. Same issue with ...

froggie

Nice. I like small and very fast, even with large files.

But I am having trouble with the options. Tab & Font work but Context Menu does not. Also, is there any to save these settings between executions of the program? (windows 7 64bit) or do they have to be reset each time?

froggie

Gooly - You say that you have made sure that the "Run as administrator" is unchecked in both the Everything's options and in the shortcut's compatibility tab - have you checked the properties of the module itself - everything.exe - to see if "Run as administrator" is unchecked, as well as all compat...

froggie

Install Everything 1.4.0.713b Beta and then try it.

froggie

froggie, But to satisfy my curiosity, why did those files "hid" from me? Are they files that haven't been completely processed when I deleted them? Corrupt files? They aren't even hidden files. Basic explaination: Say there are two userids - U1 and U2. Windows gives U1 different security credential...

froggie

froggie, will try what you suggested. But I already identified the three different Recycle Bins on C:/ for three Users. So Everything is telling the truth - these files exist on the disk. If your want to clean them up, first try to delete them from Everything (may not work depending on security rig...

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