Use regex, but limit responses to a particular drive, or list of drives

[Meroveus]

I generally have regex enabled all the time, but for some searches, it would be nice to limit responses to a single drive.

I used advanced search and it gave me the search string

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parent:d: regex:wow[0-9]+

but that returned nothing

This did:

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d:\ regex:wow[0-9]+

That's fine for 1 drive, but is there any way to say "not c:\"

btw the above is a contrived example just for testing.

[horst.epp]

!c: your_search_for_all_other_here

[Mizufluffy]

If I'd like to limit search to a single drive I'd use

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path:"C:"

(I have a habit of enclosing path in " and " because it works well also with full paths even with spaces in the path)

If I'd want to exclude one drive then I'd use NOT operator (!) and would do

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!path:"D:"

Quoting Everything Search Syntax for parent function:
"Search for files and folders in the specified path, excluding subfolders."
If you use

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parent:D:

then it will only show files that are directly under root path of D drive.
In your case, it seems there were no files or folders that matched your regex.

So, if you want to say "find files and folders matching this regex, 'wow[0-9]+', from all drives but not C drive", then this should work:

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!path:"C:" regex:"wow[0-9]+"

[NotNull]

I get the confusion. When regex is enabled (Menu:Serach > Enable Regex ), search modifiers and -functions are seen as search text and loose their original meaning.

A full regex way (Enable Regex is enabled):

^[^c]:\\

- Search on all drives except C:

^[^cde]:\\

- Search on all drives except C: D: and E:

^[^d-w]:\\

- Search on all drives except D: through W: ( = A B C X Y Z )

^[cde]:\\

- Search only on drives C: D: and E:


When Enable Regex is inactive, you can use

!D: | !E: regex:abc

to search for abc on all drives except D: and E:
(as already mentioned. ! is Everything-speak for NOT; see the Search Syntax Help )

[void]

Disabling pure regex is also available in Everything 1.5

When pure regex is disabled and Regular Expressions are enabled from the Search menu you can use the Everything syntax and Everything functions with regex:

!^c:


Note: spaces and | will need to be escaped with double quotes.