Date Modified, Date Created and Attributes not imported from EFU file

[fasafo6608]

Hi,

I'm adding an EFU file in Options -> Indexes -> File Lists and it seems like Date Modified, Date Created and Attributes are not imported (columns are blank in the search results).

For testing I generated an EFU file from Tools -> File List Editor and added that to the Options -> Indexes list. The columns for dates are empty. Opening the same EFU file using File -> Open File List shows the column content.

Thanks.

[void]

Everything should pull Date Modified from the file list by default during the initial index.
Other information is ignored because it is not indexed by default.



Everything has two options to gather information for file list items:

Gather information from the filelist when indexing
Enable Date Modified, Date Created, and Attributes indexing under Tools -> Options -> Indexes.
Information is gathered from the file list at indexing time.



Gather information from disk when required

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Advanced tab on the left.
• To the right of Show settings containing, search for:
  filelist
• Select: filelist_properties
• Set the value to: true
• Click OK.

When enabled, Everything will gather unindexed properties from disk (like Date Created and Attributes)
This information is not gathered from the file list.



When opening the File list in Everything (File -> Open File List), all properties in the file list are automatically indexed.



Date Modified, Date Created and Attributes are stored in the file list when using Tools -> File List Editor to create a file list.
Open the EFU file with a text editor and check there's a Date Modified, Date Created, and Attributes column with values.

Only indexed and gathered information is exported when Using Everything -> File -> Export.
Use File -> Read Extended information to gather unindexed information before exporting.

[fasafo6608]

Hello!

Thank you for the quick and comprehensive reply, the issue was that the properties were not enabled under Tools -> Options -> Indexes. After enabling them all is ok.

I was building a Linux script to generate EFU files and what I found on the forums didn't handle my edge cases. I'm attaching the script here in case anyone finds it useful:

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#!/bin/bash
# Build an Everything File List (EFU) - https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/file_lists/ - file from a local folder using find/stat + python.
# Use find/stat + python because stat has access to file creation time (birth time) on Linux, and Python has a proper CSV parser.


usage() {
        printf 'Usage:\n  %s <folder-to-index> <client-path-prefix> <output-file>\n\n' "$0" >&2
        printf 'Arguments:\n' >&2
        printf '  folder-to-index      Local directory to index\n' >&2
        printf '  client-path-prefix   Path prefix used in the EFU file\n' >&2
        printf '  output-file          EFU file to write\n\n' >&2
        printf 'Example:\n  %s /mnt/media %s ./output.efu\n' "$0" "'D:\\'" >&2
}

if [[ $# -ne 3 ]]; then
        usage
        exit 2
fi

FOLDER_TO_INDEX=$1
CLIENT_PATH_PREFIX=$2
OUTPUT_FILE=$3

if [[ ! -d "$FOLDER_TO_INDEX" ]]; then
        printf 'Error: folder to index does not exist or is not a directory: %s\n' "$FOLDER_TO_INDEX" >&2
        exit 1
fi

echo "Filename,Size,Date Modified,Date Created,Attributes" > "$OUTPUT_FILE"


echo "=== START [${FOLDER_TO_INDEX}] $(date)"
SECONDS=0


# Use a proper CSV parser to handle file names that contain commas, apostrophes, double quotes, etc. Sed/jq are not suitable for handling special characters in CSV data.
# Transformations:
# - remove leading and trailing quotes from file names (added by stat when the file name contains special characters)
# - replace local folder prefix with client/SMB folder prefix (e.g., /mnt/tank -> D:\)
# - replace Linux path separator (/) with Windows path separator (\)

# stat format: %N = quoted file name, %s = size, %y = last modification time, %w = birth time (creation time), 0 = attributes (not used)
find "$FOLDER_TO_INDEX" -exec stat -c "%N,%s,%y,%w,0" {} + |
        python -c $'
import sys, csv, re;
folder, prefix = sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2];
lines = list(csv.reader(sys.stdin, quotechar="\'"));
replacements = [
    (r"^\\"", ""),
    (r"\\"$", ""),
    (r"^" + re.escape(folder), prefix),
    (r"/", "\\\\"),
]
for row in lines:
    for old, new in replacements:
        row[0] = re.sub(old, lambda x: new, row[0])
csv.writer(sys.stdout, quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL, quotechar=\'"\').writerows(lines)
' "$FOLDER_TO_INDEX" "$CLIENT_PATH_PREFIX" >> "$OUTPUT_FILE"


echo "=== END>> [${FOLDER_TO_INDEX}] $(date) - ELAPSED: ${SECONDS}s"