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froggie

This thread might be a place to start:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7740883/how-to-identify-pdf-files-that-need-ocr

froggie

You are starting Everything from the right-click menu. When you do this, Everything puts the folder you click on in the search box and proceeds to display all of the files in that folder As you add additional terms in the search box Everything will AND those terms with the initial folder and display...

froggie

Are you just trying to have a blank result screen when you start Everything until you start typing

or are you trying to have Everything not build its internal list of files?

froggie

Tough for me to see, but it looks like your example is in Dropbox. Could this be an artifact of the Dropbox syncing process?

Does it show in Windows Explorer?

Does it show in non-dropbox files?

froggie

Does

tools==>options==>general==>results==>Hide results when the search is empty

do what you want?

froggie

Thank you. There are times when this will come in very handy.

froggie

Actually Windows 10 is SSD aware and I believe the power off setting should not effect it. We are a bit off topic for Everthing support, but I wonder if there is something about the way the additional SDD was installed that is causing your problems. Since this is a Laptop, is the disk external - USB...

froggie

@raccoon has it right, you should set power off to Never. SSDs use times of low activity to reorganize the data internally. Cutting off power that often may possibly be causing an issue. Also, never defrag a SSD - it just causes extra wear and shortens its life. What version of Windows are you runni...

froggie

Not necessary. The database is only read at startup (and only written at shutdown) - otherwise it is all in memory.

froggie

Just out of curiosity, why is Run as Administrator the default when using the installer? From all I read here, it seems clear that using the Service works best in almost all cases. For that matter, when would run as Administrator be needed?

froggie

You could just copy it, replacing "apple" with whatever the name of the folder you are interested in

Or

infolder:C:\users\bigdan\documents\desktop\career\apple\

Or

C: \apple\ depth:7

See Everything Help for a description of infolder: and depth:

froggie

BigDan wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 02, 2020 5:35 pm
is there also a way to see all the contents of apple, not just the resumes? again, not as imp.

Staying with the regex theme:

regex:C:.*\\apple\\[^\\]*$

froggie

Try

c: \apple resume

With the spaces.

froggie

The jpg is easy, just add .*\.(jpg|jpeg) after the last [0-9]. When you add the D:\ to the regex, you have to match the entire path up to the CIMG, so you end up with P:\\.*CIMG[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].*\.(jpg|jpeg) , which is fine as long as there is no folder with a CIMGnnnn name. I generally find tha...

froggie

Without "enable regex" selected in search try

d:\ ext:jpg;jpeg regex:^CIMG[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]

Everything ANDs the terms together. It is not necessary to have them all within the regx. The "^" says match at beginning of filename.

froggie

Try checking

Tools==>Options==>General==>UI==> Full Row Select

Also

Tools==>Options==>General==>View==> Alternate Row Color

may be helpful

froggie

Is TB using (text based) Mbox? If so then wouldn't a content: search find (text strings) in the particular Mbox file? TB is text based and content: will find the Mbox files that contain the search string. In the case of many Mbox files with few messages in each, this would be workable, but I suspec...

froggie

@void -

According to this https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/window ... s-root-key Microsoft document, HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT is a merged view that shows keys from HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

froggie

(deleted as erroneous, too hot for brain to work)

thanks, therube

froggie

you have to use quotes for the target:

"c:\program files\everything\everything.exe -instance pictures"

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 everything.exe

is the program name

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 -instance pictures

is a parameter that is passed to the program

froggie

No, I do not believe so.

froggie

/listview_tooltips=0 off

/listview_tooltips=1 on

froggie

Look under Search on the menu. Be sure nothing is checked.

froggie

Short answer - not possible. Long answer - The next lines in that article are Thunderbird defaults to using the mbox format to store messages. That is widely supported. You can also configure an account to use the maildir format. The mbox format (the default) has all the messages from a Thunderbird ...

froggie

Both symbols are allowed and work fine in Windows filenames.

froggie

To get MB type the following in the search box and press enter

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/size_format=3

You can put it back to KB with

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/size_format=2

or from the options panel

@Void: suggestion: add MB to options panel

froggie

Also, Select "Help" in Everything's menu and browse the topics.

froggie

Another way: Right click on any .log file. Click on properties. On the line "Open With" in the General tab, click the "Change" button. If you are then given a choice of recommended programs, select "Notepad" OR Click "browse" and go to "C:\Windows" then double click on "notepad.exe" Click OK Now "No...

froggie

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regex:"^[^ ]* [^-]"

assuming just a single space

Sorry, posted wrong version. Revised. Re-revised.

froggie

The names in the file system (NTFS) are 'favorites' and 'desktop' - both Everything and the dir command will show you that. There is a hidden system file called "desktop.ini" in 'desktop" (and many other places) that contains information that Windows will use to display the file. Desktop.ini can be ...

froggie

But, why does Everything sometimes use so much less RAM(?): I an not completely certain what "memory" in Windows 10 shows - in Windows 7 there are several columns for memory that provide much more information; however I believe "memory" means the amount of REAL memory Windows is allowing a program ...

froggie

You have 8GB of REAL storage (RAM in the display). Your are using about 1GB of VIRTUAL storage (a tiny fraction of the available VIRTUAL storage with 64 bit Everything). Pieces of VIRTUAL storage are loaded into REAL storage as needed. You do not have a storage problem from Everything - in fact if y...

froggie

The x86 version of Everything will use half the memory of the 64 bit version.Which are you using? For the number of files you have the memory usage seems consistent with what I have observed. Are you having a problem or are you alarmed by the red flag in the process viewer? This is virtual memory of...

froggie

As a start try this as a search (with regex under search on the menu NOT checked)

regex:"\.\w\w\w\.\w\w\w$"

froggie

@void
Isn't "noexact" the same as "nowfn" and is the default? Why would you need to specify it in the macro, other than clarity in the example?

froggie

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So, do we ever need asterisks?

Maybe in the middle of a string: "xxx*yyy"

But even in this case I would start with "xxx yyy" and see if there is a need to use a more complex search - often this will find what I need without creating a more complex search.

froggie

@terrypin But what exactly does "Match Whole Filename When Using Wildcards " mean? I'm using asterisks because I don't know the whole filename. You don't need the asterisks. Everything will match a search string wherever it appears. So "hf" will match "hf", "abchf", abchfdefg", etc. The search strin...

froggie

Its the

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*anything*.

that does it.

Searching for *hf*.pdf and Checking Match Whole Filename When Using Wildcards (which is the same logical search) is instantaneous.

Of course just omitting the "*"

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hf ext:pdf

is also the same and instantaneous

froggie

Interesting.
I am getting about 10 seconds with that search.
Match whole word drops it to 3
removing the period or putting a space before it makes it about instantaneous

froggie

If you uncheck "Run in background" , Everything will end when you close the search window. However, it is generally more efficient to have one instance of Everything with multiple search windows if you need them (right click tray icon, new search window), rather than starting multiple copies of Ever...

froggie

Excel VBA supports both Regex and reading directories. Plenty of examples online. As much as I love Everything, It might be simplier & easier to just stay within Excel

froggie

What anti-virus are you using? More than one?
Can you try disabling anti-virus and then repeating the set Everything service to automatic & reboot test.

froggie

Would something like TreeSize Free help you? It will, as the name says, list the size of some or all of the folders on your drives. (There are many like it, this is the one I use the most)

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https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/comparison.shtml

froggie

Go to Search>>Organize Filters>>Document (for example)

At the bottom you can set a keyboard shortcut

Repeat for each filter of interest

froggie

Check box at Tools>>Options>>UI>>Full Row Select

froggie

Why *.mp3? Just .mp3 seems to have the same matches and it is much faster.

froggie

Thank you. That does the trick.

froggie

This is minor, and I should be able to fix it, but it has been far too many years since I wrote cmd scripts :

I keep all my scripts in a directory that has a name similar to "Scripts & Programs & Such" . The ampersands make IndexThis fail. Do you know an easy way to escape the ampresands?

froggie

That is exactly right (and well described). I tested it to refresh my memory. Note that when an account with administrator rights chooses "run as an administrator" windows puts up a prompt for permission before handing out the admin badge - it is not hidden (unless UAC has been turned off), so most ...

froggie

It is Interesting. It is really not proper for a process to write in another user's (admin) files. I did exit everything completely and made sure the service was stopped. I repeated the process, deleting everything.ini in appdata\roaming. Everything recreated everything.ini in my user's appdata\roam...

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