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raccoon

Suggestion: Let db_location default to `.` (period) to reflect the relative path of the everything.ini file. (This works) When one unpacks Everything and runs it for the first time, the db_location is given an absolute path of the current working directory. If the user decides to later move or renam...

raccoon

void wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 21, 2020 2:55 am
Everything doesn't know the folder was renamed. As far as Everything knows, the folder was deleted and a new one created.
I'll look into rescanning "added" folders..

Ah hah. Thanks for that explanation. And I like that solution.

raccoon

This bug again (probably). This time, when you Move a folder into a subfolder. Example: X:\foo\stuff\ moves to X:\foo\bar\stuff\ "stuff" starts a subfolder of "foo", and we move that folder into the subsubfolder of "bar" which is also a subfolder of "foo". Edit: Doing this causes the folder and its ...

raccoon

Cool, thank you. Btw, I'm pretty intimately familiar with Win32 API. I probably didn't mention that. I appreciate the explanation, and will try fuzzing for similar misbehaviors.

raccoon

Indeed about the rescan. It's just that when I am (or was) performing meticulous librarian operations, making many a sweeping changes, that's exactly the same moment that I'm also using Everything. Not a half hour later. :) But my question was about this bug is, what did you find, and how did you fi...

raccoon

Thanks void You're on fire!

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Out of curiosity, what did you find and how much other list damage was it probably causing so I can rule out those sync issues as fixed

raccoon

For testing, try formatting a free-gift USB flash drive to FAT32 or exFAT. I used exFAT in my test. Windows 7 64 Pro.

raccoon

I just nailed down one of the bugs that causes an index to lose sync. I'm personally using Indexes->Folders for exFAT disks, but this bug might also extend to other Index-types and how they "Attempt to monitor changes." If you rename a folder (a directory) to a different CaPiTaLiZaTiOn, but exactly ...

raccoon

I'm starting this thread to document my (and any of your) tricky search/filter/bookmark combinations of logic functions... aka, recipes. Here's one that allows me to find folders that only contain files that match my query, and must not contain any files that do not match. X:\Path\ child:.jpg !regex...

raccoon

Very cool, and I'll definitely be using this. If I might suggest, the option for `dbcscontent:`, or `unicodecontent:` as it were to contrast `ansicontent:`, which is simply 16 bit plain 0 BMP unicode strings in windows, ie, usually found in compiled 32 bit software and resources. Easily recognizable...

raccoon

I would have never guessed to try this!

What other functions can be stacked this way??

raccoon

My guess is that you just didn't wait long enough for the Force Rebuild to complete, since there are no visual progress indicators. It's not immediate, so you were still seeing the cached results pre-rebuild.

raccoon

I notice when performing a Force Rebuild, or Rescan Now, there is no indication of progress displayed in the Statusbar. Have to open up the Index options to see what's happening. Request that this progress be included in the Status bar, as it is upon initial launch.

raccoon

Honestly never used recentchanged:, is that looking at files with a dm: and dc: of a given date (default today)? similarly has to be reentered at midnight? I'm fine with that, just never used that func.

raccoon

Thanks therube, indeed I've explored and played with that option. But rename path right in place, the same way as renaming a file in place within the ListView, would be very UI friendly. I understand the mechanics of it being a move operation, and in fact, a file rename is a move operation at its fu...

raccoon

Yes, I just discovered this as I had the query dm:<=today up and it stalled at midnight.

I wonder if it would be feasible or reasonable to have these constants update when the clock rolls over, ie, every midnight (today) or every minute (now).

raccoon

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... which would show recently changed files in real time. Does Everything have something similar? You could sort the Date Modified column to show the most recently modified files, first. The only problem is you'll have to contend with any erroneously "future dated" files that also clamber to the to...

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Tools -> Options [Ctrl+P] -> General -> View -> [x] Alternate row color

raccoon

Request the ability to Rename a file's folder (Path), with the same simplicity as F2 Rename. I search for sets of files, and then go through renaming folders that have those files present. Right now I have to do that through the extra step of opening the path in Explorer. File > Rename Path [Shift+F...

raccoon

I am unfamiliar with Windows tagging. How does it work. Is it NTFS reliant?

raccoon

Since this is an NTFS volume, one possible solution is to create a hard link, symbolic link, junction (or whatever the proper term / option is called) instead of creating an actual copy. I believe one of the options allows changes to one to reflect in the other, and another option will split the lin...

raccoon

I may not understand the question correctly. For me, on Win7, Everything shows the folder size as being the non-sparse predicted size of the folder's contents if every file were completed. If I want to see the -actual- size on disk at the moment, I have to use a different program such as WizTree in ...

raccoon

I haven't found the ability to add sequential numbers with Everything's Rename feature, but the program RegexRenamer has this feature. Yes, you should really learn regex.

(Side note: I believe the Rename feature should be moved to Edit > Advanced > Advanced Rename)

raccoon

ntfs is vulnerable to encryption ransomware while ex/fat is [usually] not. ntfs is very problematic for drives that move between computers because of ACS (file ownership) permissions. ... on a secondary / data drive, this is pretty nasty after you have to reinstall windows on the primary. ntfs [usua...

raccoon

Match Path has to be turned off to support anchors at filename boundaries. What do you mean by that? When you have Match Path (Ctrl+U) enabled, PCRE only sees the entire full path of every file, but does not ( also ) see just the filename. This means that your use of anchors (ie. ^ and $) will be b...

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Alternately, you can leave Regex Search turned off, and use one or more patterns in your search using the regex: prefix. regex:^f regex:\.tlb$ regex:^f .tlb regex:^f.*\.tlb$ I'm not sure about all the edge cases like supporting space characters in the regex pattern. Think maybe optional /pattern/ qu...

raccoon

void: Would it be outside of your design scope to allow Everything to automatically index all attached disk volumes? By default? I expressly teach people never to use NTFS for anything besides their system disk, and that seems like fair advice. And the proliferation of external FAT/exFAT formatted U...

raccoon

Hopefully this isn't out of turn, but it was my experience that I had to manually add all FAT32/exFAT drive letters under the Options > Indexes > Folders section. Everything seemed to only index NTFS volumes automatically on first run. (All of my drives are FAT except for the system disk)

raccoon

I guess I should rephrase. Does Everything know that an error has occurred during indexing, and attempt to retry the request or resolve the error? Is there any reporting so I can detect index errors before performing a routine of tedious nature, so I do not miss any work and have to undo everything ...

raccoon

I see. So you're saying that because the attribute response never makes it, it never gets the "D" attribute and remains a "file" without any shape or form besides its name. Doesn't try again?

raccoon

Hi void, You have it backwards though. Those are all folders. Everything started incorrectly identifying them as files instead of folders. I believe this happened after moving the collection of folders and their contents from the root path to a sub folder. Somehow Everything saw the folders as files...

raccoon

Strange bug or glitch I noticed just now. It seems that a large chunk of the indexed folders are being identified as files instead of folders. It should be noted that just about every folder name contains periods '.' in them. Notice the size and timestamps disappear, and the file extension, type and...

raccoon

Strange. Mine doesn't do that. (current version)

Maybe it's an OS level thing.

raccoon

VeraKrypt is what I used to encrypt it. I tried using your suggested approach to see if that worked as a temp solution but it did not work. I select the drive, I get an error message saying the drive needs to be formatted which I ignore as its encrypted. And hit apply. Still no results. Um. You wan...

raccoon

What are the drives encrypted with?

You can arbitrarily add ANY drive, folder or network path under Tools -> Options -> Indexes -> Folders. As long as windows recognizes it as a proper path.

raccoon

I am not aware that Everything even facilitates audio playback of any kind, let alone automatically upon selecting a file. Please explain where you have found this preview audio feature.

raccoon

Go into Tools -> Options -> Indexes and make sure you select all your NTFS drives under NTFS and all your FAT/exFAT drives under Folders . Then go under Indexes again and hit Force Rebuild . I personally wish these drive and path selections were removed from the deep options and placed very intuitiv...

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Do you know of any tools to specifically index all symbolic links / junction loops? Honestly just an OS and a folder of downloads on this NTFS drive. All other drives are exFAT for portability and to specifically to avoid ADS, ACL and other NTFS silliness.

raccoon

Ok. So neither are literally using software written by voidtools. Gotcha. I did nothing at all in WizFile. I simply started it up, selected my drives and let it do its thing. It pegged 99% CPU for a fair while, and then I got Low Ram warnings which I had never seen before in modern Windows. Checked ...

raccoon

CRC, MD5 and SHA1 are all vulnerable to intentional collision attacks. It's not really worth debating end-of-the-word file-pocalypse scenarios because SHA512 is as fast as SHA256 and they're both as fast as SHA1. It's not really a big deal. If I'm going to keep hashes of every file on my 10 TB libra...

raccoon

I notice the program WizTree mentioned on this forum , which utilizes the Everything library, and apparently they make another newer program called WizFile . I just gave these a wiz (yespun) this evening because they also include a column for Size-On-Disk aka Allocated filesize (which Everything doe...

raccoon

Logistically, given that file hashes are not expected to be changed all that frequently, especially for large read-only media libraries, I would suggest a json/xml or flat file of hashes, stored externally from the database and loaded only when requested by a function (eg, hashdupe:). We can discuss...

raccoon

Would it be possible to revisit this suggestion, even if it means generating a temporary on-demand index of altstream files? There are very very few programs that enable user navigation and manipulation of ADS files. And you can hide some serious crap as a file or folder's alt data stream. One can e...

raccoon

So I've been using Everything for many years now and just discovered these forums. It's one of the most handy tools in my kit, so hopefully I can spam all sorts of great and annoying ideas here lend a hand. One of my most painstaking endeavors is maintaining file integrity and managing duplicates a...

raccoon

I do like the sleek slender design without a toolbar, but I can also appreciate that people are used to toolbars and ribbons in other software, and so they can be easier to navigate than menus, or memorize than shortcut accelerators.

I'd dig it if it were customizable and hideable.

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