Feed Everything a list of files

[___Scorp___]

I have a list of files that I would like to find.

Rather than cut and pasting each one is there anyway to get everything to read all of them?

[void]

Please try Search -> Advanced Search -> Search for a list of filenames
(towards the bottom of the Advanced Search page)

[___Scorp___]

Many thanks, so the section I'm looking at is the A word or Phrase in the file.

It is possible to browse to that file or do I just type the file location in ?

When I do that, I get

E:\ content:f:\all-flac.list

So the all-flac.list is a list of the flac filenames I'm looking at and e:\ is where I want to look.

However it says zero objects, however I know the first three lines of the file are flacs that are present.

[void]

Not the "A word or Phrase in the file" field.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and look for
"Search for a list of filenames":

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Click Browse...
Select your file list and click Open.
Click OK.

[___Scorp___]

Apologies, I didn't see the scroll bar !


I have ordered the file and it finds the first 16 in the list, then stops.

Is there a limit to have many lines it will process ?

As it seems to whatever way I order the file only process 16 lines.

The file is 19k lines long, but I had hoped it would process more than 16 lines (I was hoping it would display a limit and then I'd split the file into smaller ones to match the limit.

[void]

There's no limit.

The edit control has a display limit of about 8000 characters.

If you click OK in the advanced search, are your files shown?

Please make sure your file list is using UTF-8 encoding.



Everything 1.5 improves searching for a list of filenames.
Everything 1.5 will no longer use a long filelist: search and instead references the file list by filename with includefilelist:
For example:

includefilelist:"C:\file lists\My file list.txt"

edit: Everything supports CRLF and LF newlines.

[PhredE]

I can confirm that this works well here with vn. 1.5x.
I have a list of filenames in a standard text file in Windows 10. One filename per line, CRLF at each end*.
'Search | Advanced search [half way down] [scroll way down to Search for a list of filenames: ] [Browse] [OK]'
yielding
includefilelist:D:\Users\Public\Pictures\DMSlist.txt
or
Invoked from Search in menu: tap Alt S S [use mousewheel to scroll down to second-last field].

*Notepad++
Show/hide CR/LF:
View | Show symbols - Show End of Line
...or the pilcrow (Para) on the toolbar.

[___Scorp___]

File is utf-8

"The edit control has a display limit of about 8000 characters."

So does this mean if the file is over 8000 characters it will stop searching then ?

[void]

It is only a display limitation.

The search will still work.