Report which items were not found from the list

[Nancy_Widmore]

Hello,

First, thank you for your continued development of Everything—the performance improvements in recent versions like 1.5.0.1400a are excellent!

I’d like to request a new feature that would be very helpful for my workflow:

When searching for a list of files or folders (e.g., using includefilelist: or a similar method), Everything currently shows what was found, which is great. However, it would be extremely useful if it could also report which items were not found from the list.

This would help identify missing files or folders quickly, especially when working with large sets of expected data.

Would it be possible to add this as an option in a future release? on side panel or option to copy or save what isn't found ?

Thanks again for your hard work and for considering this request.

Best regards,

[void]

Thank you for your feedback Nancy_Widmore,

When searching for a list of files or folders (e.g., using includefilelist: or a similar method), Everything currently shows what was found, which is great. However, it would be extremely useful if it could also report which items were not found from the list.

I will consider an option to show missing filenames from your filelist.
Thank you for the suggestion.

One way to do this now:

• Search for
  includefilelist:"c:\My Filelists\filelist.txt"
  
  where c:\My Filelists\filelist.txt is your file list.
• Select all results (Ctrl + A)
• Copy all the filenames (Ctrl + Shift + C)
• Search for:
  filelist1:
• Right click the filelist1: text in the search box and click Edit File List Slot.
• Paste your filenames and click OK.
• Open your filelist from File -> Open File List. (eg: c:\My Filelists\filelist.txt)
• Search for:
  !filelist1:
  
  When you are done with the missing files, close the filelist from File -> Close File List.

filelist1:

[NotNull]

Alternative:

• Menu => File => Open File List = "c:\My Filelists\filelist.txt"
• Paste the following in the search bar:

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  A:=get_property(full-path:,size)    $A:="" 

  ("Missing files/folders will be listed)
• Menu => File => Close File List

Note that off-line files/folders will also be listed as missing.

[tuska]

Hi,

I'm having trouble with this topic.
I cannot obtain the difference using the following method.

Here's an example.
Everything 1.5.0.1400a (x64) | Windows 11 Pro (x64) Version 25H2 (OS build 26200.6899) - 2025-10-14

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c:\windows\*.pf

510 items (510 files, 0 folders)

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· Search for includefilelist:"c:\My Filelists\filelist.txt"	) includefilelist:C:\totalcmd\EV-Results\TC-Results.txt
  where "c:\My Filelists\filelist.txt" is your file list.	)   2 files  (ADMIN rights required for C:\Windows\Prefetch!
· Select all results (Ctrl + A)						      Reference: Total Commander, AHK script & LOADLIST)
· Copy all the filenames (Ctrl + Shift + C)
· Search for: filelist1:
· Right click the filelist1: text in the search box and click Edit File List Slot.
· Paste your filenames and click OK.
· Open your filelist from File -> Open File List		) C:\totalcmd\EV-Results\EV-Results.txt
  (eg: "c:\My Filelists\filelist.txt")				) 510 files
· Search for: !filelist1:

Search result in Everything:
510 items (510 files, 0 folders), instead of 508 files.

EDIT:

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· Search for: !filelist1:

replaced with:

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A:=get_property(full-path:,size)    $A:="" 

works! (508 items (508 files, 0 folders))

Thanks to the author and NotNull!

[NotNull]

There is a subtle difference between the two methods.

The first one shows all items that are not in the Everything database,
the second one shows all items that are not on the system (as far as the current user account can see)

So these 2 .pf files are likely to be found in the Everything database ("Everything sees all"), but can not be seen by the useraccount that started Everything.


Depending what you want to accomplish, one is better suited than the other.
For example, you might have excluded all these .pf prefetch files from being indexed by Everything.
On the other hand, if these files are on an offline disk/network share or in an admin folder, Everything is still able to list them.

[tuska]

2NotNull
For me, the combination edited above produces the desired result.

My goal in Everything 1.5 was to display those files that, after transferring the search results
from Everything to Total Commander *via AHK script* using the Total Commander command LOADLIST,
were ultimately NOT present in the search results on a separate tab in Total Commander.

Current example:
Everything and Total Commander were run as USER (and not Administrator).

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c:\windows\*.pf		Everything:		512 items (512 files, 0 folders)
ev:c:\windows\*.pf	Total Commander:	[512 files and 0 directories found]

AHK-script Transfer the search results from EV 1.5 to Total Commander 11.56 (x64) with AHK script and LOADLIST command in Total Commander:

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C:\totalcmd\EV-Results\EV-Results.txt		512 files (AHK script: DestinationFile = C:\totalcmd\EV-Results\EV-Results.txt)
%TotalCmd% /O /T /S LOADLIST:%DestinationFile%    2 files in the ‘Search result:’ tab only(!)

510 files in the "Prefetch" folder:
The Total Commander LOADLIST command does not have access
to the C:\Windows\Prefetch folder, for which ADMIN rights are required.

Reference: %TotalCmd% /O /T /S LOADLIST:%DestinationFile% ... TC forum

[Nancy_Widmore]

I will consider an option to show missing filenames from your filelist.

I will be keeping an eye on this method. Currently, I use compare2lists. It's not bad, but hopefully, when considering adding such an option, it will allow us to copy the list or a line before saving it as a TXT or another format. Thank you.