Re: Quick way to only search certain drives?

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Is there a quick way to search only drives? I have a C: SSD for system and 4TB D: for all sorts of data. I tell everything not to index new drives so I don't wind up with duplicates on, say, a backup drive.

But occasionally, I do, or might want to search only a specific drive or drives.

Is there a search syntax to limit the search to only drive C, or Drives C and D that I missed? (Just found the empty: syntax to find empty folders, fan-darn-tastic!

Easy enough
Just start your search with a drive letter, and only results from this one will be shown.

and what is the syntax for your actual search term? space delimited? semi delimited?

and i assume that is an 'AND' condition. is | an OR condition

in any case the filter options under Optrions/Exclude need to cleaned up and made much more inuoitive. eg the Include filter is under Exclude.

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Space = AND
| = OR
! = NOT

Everything Operators.



Examples:

To search for files or folders on your C: drive, include the following in your search:

c:

To search for files or folders on your D: drive OR E: drive, include the following in your search:

d:|e:

To search for jpg files on your G: drive OR H: drive, include the following in your search:

g:|h: *.jpg

To search for files or folders NOT on your C: drive, include the following in your search:

!c:

Everything has multiple indexing methods.
For NTFS indexing, all files / folders are indexed first, then your exclude list is applied.
Volumes and folders can be indexed under Tools -> Options -> Indexes.
NTFS volumes are indexed automatically.

If you want a simple list of folders to index, disable NTFS indexing and add all your desired folders (slow):

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the NTFS tab on the left.
• Uncheck Automatically indexed new fixed volumes.
• Uncheck Automatically indexed new removable volumes.
• Uncheck Automatically remove offline volumes.
• For each NTFS volume:
  • Uncheck Include in database.
• Click the Folders tab on the left.
• Click Add....
• Select a folder to index and click OK.
  (repeat for additional folders)
• Click OK.