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DanielPodo
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Not all files showing

Post by DanielPodo »

Hi,

First time posting here. I'm tidying up my entire music collection, changing format, relabelling, etc. I was hoping I could use Everything to find all the files contained within certain folders but it's only showing me a fragment of what's inside. I've checked my search syntax and tested it on other smaller folders and it worked fine, so I doubt that's the issue. I've also tried "Force rebuild" and that doesn't help. None of the usual culprits (regex, exclude lists, match case in search etc) are at fault. I'm totally confused.

As an example, what I've got in my search bar:

"D:\Music\Albums\Ministry of Sound - The Annual Series\ .flac"

Almost nothing comes up. :?:
therube
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Re: Not all files showing

Post by therube »

Do you literally have the quote marks in your search (as shown above)?
If so, then you are literally search for what you have posted (which would be a "blank" file name, if you will, with a .flac extension).

These (or many other variations) will probably do it:
"D:\Music\Albums\Ministry of Sound - The Annual Series\" .flac

D: Ministry of Sound Annual Series .flac
void
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Re: Not all files showing

Post by void »

Space in Everything means AND
Use double quotes to escape spaces:

"D:\Music\Albums\Ministry of Sound - The Annual Series\" .flac


Everything sees:

"D:\Music\Albums\Ministry of Sound - The Annual Series\"
AND
.flac


Search Syntax
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