❓ Content search brings 0 results

[wise_mike]

Hi,

I just installed Everything 1.5 Alpha for content search purpose, added the include only folder, and filetypes, but it does nothing. I tried searching for html files that has the text "jpg" using content:"jpg" command, but nothing shows, and nothing seemed indexed. No progress bar in the program's taskbar.

Should I be changing any other options in the program to work? What am I doing wrong?

I have Windows 10 search disabled as I don't use it and it slows the computer, could that be the reason? Is Everything dependent on Windows Search Index?

Thanks,

[NotNull]

Please uncheck the Exclude not content indexed in the dialog of your screenshot.

If checked, Everything will Exclude files and folders with the not content indexed attribute
The not content indexed attribute will be set (or not) by Windows Search.

Unchecking Exclude not content indexed will make Everything index the specified content, regardless of the Windows Search configuration.

[wise_mike]

Works great.. Thanks.

A couple of questions:
1- Is there a "count" option that shows how many matches in each file for the search term? I found a "Run Count" column, most of the time it shows no numbers.

2- In the Options > Indexes > Database Location, I changed to a certain folder. Now the indexer is still running indexing thousands of document content, but the folder I change the DB location to is still 607 bytes. Isn't there a database file like sql or something the stores the content so it doesn't re-index them each time I open the program (if they are unchanged files)?

Thanks for the great program.

[void]

1- Is there a "count" option that shows how many matches in each file for the search term? I found a "Run Count" column, most of the time it shows no numbers.

A Content Occurrence Count property is on my TODO list.

For now, please consider the following filter:
From the Search menu, click Add to filters...
Change the Name to:
Content with Count
Change the Search to:

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content:search: add-column:a a-label:"Content Count" a:=(LEN(REMOVEDIACRITICS(LOWER($content:)))-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(REMOVEDIACRITICS(LOWER($content:)),REMOVEDIACRITICS(LOWER(search:)),"")))/LEN(REMOVEDIACRITICS(LOWER(search:)))

Change the Macro to:
cc<search>
Click OK.

Instead of using content: use cc:

2- In the Options > Indexes > Database Location, I changed to a certain folder. Now the indexer is still running indexing thousands of document content, but the folder I change the DB location to is still 607 bytes. Isn't there a database file like sql or something the stores the content so it doesn't re-index them each time I open the program (if they are unchanged files)?

Everything stores the database in memory.
The database is written to disk when you exit Everything.

[wise_mike]

Great support! Thanks a million.

[void]

The following filter search fixes an issue with evaluating the parameter.

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content:"#[REGEXREPLACE:search:#]:" add-column:a a-label:"Content Count" a:=(LEN(REMOVEDIACRITICS(LOWER($content:)))-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(REMOVEDIACRITICS(LOWER($content:)),REMOVEDIACRITICS(LOWER("#[REGEXREPLACE:search:#]:")),"")))/LEN(REMOVEDIACRITICS(LOWER("#[REGEXREPLACE:search:#]:")))

search: => "#[REGEXREPLACE:search:#]:"

I'm working on a cleaner solution...

[NotNull]

I'm working on a cleaner solution...

And you did! (by introducing the STRINGCOUNT() formula)

Filter:

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Name = Content with Count
Search = content:search:   addcol:A   A-label:="Content Count"   A:=STRINGCOUNT($content:,search:)
Macro = cc<search>

Search:
cc:"hello world"

Result:
In the extra Content Count column will be shown how many times "hello world" was detected in each file.

[void]

Please use the following to ignore case and diacritics:

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Name = Content with Count
Search = content:search:   addcol:A   A-label:="Content Count"   A:=STRINGCOUNT(REMOVEDIACRITICS(LOWER($content:)),REMOVEDIACRITICS(LOWER(search:)))
Macro = cc<search>

[KoalaBear]

Sorry for reviving this. I'm using the latest (alpa) version and would like to use the STRINGCOUNT with content, except this content is not indexed.

I wanted to have a column matching some (error) message from logfiles and see when and how many times it occurs. But you shouldn't add all "*.log" files to the content mechanism as it will be read into system memory

I tried to use utf8content:

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*.log addcolumn:a a:=STRINGCOUNT($utf8content:,"ERROR") sort:a-descending

That works 'outside' of the STRINGCOUNT.

Is there any way to do this, or implement these incidental use cases which are very useful? Thanks in advance!

[void]

$utf8content: is not a property.

Please try the following:

*.log addcolumn:a a:=STRINGCOUNT($content:,"ERROR") sort:a-descending

Everything will treat the log files as text/plain when using $content:

edit: $utf8content: is now a property.

[KoalaBear]

Thanks for your reply.

The issue is that the logfiles are not 'indexed' by content and therefore don't get any result, I think.

[void]

Everything will still gather content, it will just be slow.

Do you see the content with the following search:

*.log addcolumn:a a:=$content:

Please check if Everything is reading the logs correctly.

[KoalaBear]

No, that's the whole issue I think. I thought it was because this content is not indexed. But according to your comment it should always work

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Just to be sure, retested in 1.5.0.1396a.

[void]

Are you indexing content? (Tools -> Options -> Content)
-If so, $content: will only return indexed content.

[KoalaBear]

Well, that's what I said in the first comment "except this content is not indexed", and again in the comment before "The issue is that the logfiles are not 'indexed' by content and therefore don't get any result, I think.", but then you said "Everything will still gather content, it will just be slow.", but now I hear that in the end that it doesn't

So it's a back and forth of conclusions. It would be nice if there was a way for these very incidental searches to have like the "utf8content" fallback or so which I use to check if something is in a file at least once. Now I would like to know how many times.

[void]

To clarify, you are indexing content under Tools -> Options -> Content.
But you are excluding log files and only indexing a small subset of files.

Unfortunately, $content: will only return indexed content when enabling content indexing under Tools -> Options -> Content.

I have put on my TODO list to add a GET_PROPERTY_FROM_DISK() formula function.
I'll make a note here once it is ready for testing.