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pstein

Occasionally I need to scan (or re-scan) a big, big NTFS partition with many files (> more than 1000000). As soon as I start Everything the scan begins automatically. Good. Unfortunately it seems to run very very long. After 10 minutes its still running. Maybe its because some other tools consume CP...

pstein

Everything 1.5 will have the option to rewrite your searches: In Everything 1.5 , from the Search menu, click Add to filters... . Change the Name to: CO2 => CO₂ Change the Search to: #[regexreplace:$param:,"(?i)\bCO2\b","<CO2|CO₂>"#]: Click OK . When this filter is active, the w...

pstein

I am using Everything v1.4.1.1024 on 64bit Windows

I need diacritics because I am occasionally searching files with foreign letters inside filenames.

If you consider Diacritics menu to be useless (as you seem to assume) then why is it built-in in Everything?

pstein

Ok, this works. However having manually to remember and add a colon ":" is tedious and user unfriendly. is there any chance to add a kind of auto-completion to Everything? Whenever a search term is entered for which a filter exists then Everything should automatically append a colon. Or pr...

pstein

Thank you for your (partial only) solution. I followed you suggestion and setup a filter. And yes it worked at first successfully. But then, after some days, it didn't work any more. When I go to menu Search--->organize filters..... I can see the previously created filter. Everything is still as you...

pstein

So when I want to have Diacritics enabled all the time AND Treat CO₂ as CO2 all the time users have to enable Diacritics AND enter always manually CO2 nodiacritics:co2 That very uncomfortable and user unfriendly. Is there a user customizable entry field in Everything options where user can enter Eve...

pstein

Ok, after disabling Diacritics it works.

But: I want to have Diacritics search AND 2 = ₂ search at the same time.

How can I achieve this?

pstein

I have a lot of (.pdf and .png) files which contain "CO₂" as part of the file name. Mind the lower/small appended number! When I search with the pattern "CO2" these files are not found. I don't want to remember how to enter a low/small digit and search for it separately. Whenever...

pstein

ok, thank you for the answers. However the History feature is not satisfying. 1.) I want to keep the history not for a number of days but until I exit Everything. At exit is should be auto-cleared In addition an option to keep only the last X (e.g.3) history entries would be useful as well. 2.) I al...

pstein

Lets start with a standard search: I enter a search pattern. Everything shows the results. Good. Now I enter just another search pattern. It works. Good But when I want to see the result list of the previous search I have to re-enter the (possibly long, complicated) previous search pattern again. I ...

pstein

harryray2 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 5:36 pm Either Menu>index>Enable Results Omissions or Tools>Options>Exclude

Works.
Thank you

pstein

Ok, I could exclude a certain folder from a search by adding a parameter !badfolder in search entry field.

But on the long run this is tedious.

Is there a way to exclude a certain folder (and its subdirs) automatically from ALL futures searches?

pstein

Ok, thank you. The file Everything.ini contains NO such line. In an older Everything.ini backup I found the line app_data=0 (WITH Underscore). Is appdata or app_data correct? Whats the default value in absence of app_data line? Can I simply manually add app_data=0 line to force Everything to use the...

pstein

I copied my whole Everything folder from one computer to another in local network. When I start Everything on the second new computer I expected that Everything detects and reads the preferences from local Everything.ini file. But this is not the case. Many settings are completely different than on ...

pstein

I am running Everything on two computers. lets call them ONE and TWO. On the first computer Everything created a database with name Everything.ONE.PET.DB When I look into the Everything installation directory on the second computer then there is no corresponding *.DB file. I expected a file "Ev...

pstein

Ok, it works.
Thank you.

However this setup is somehow weird.
Why not introducing a Line Height option nearby the font selection Option?

pstein

How can I adjust the line height in the result list? I want to see many lines in Everything Window as possible without scrolling. The space gap between result lines is very big. I want to remove 1 or 2 or 3 empty pixel rows Again: I am NOT talking about the font size! The font size should not be cha...

pstein

I am running Everything from an USB flash drive on various computers. Normally I need an enabled option "Automatically include new fixed volumes" so that partitions from the current computer are automatically included in database. However on a certain computer (with the computer name "...

pstein

Ok. But when USN Journal is always enabled by default and always (if necessary) automatically re-created at Windows startup what does it make sense to disable it? What are the advantages of (temporarily) disabling USN Journal? Everything is the only search tool I know which offers disabling USN Jour...

pstein

In Everything options there are 2 NTFS-Indexing features per partition:

"Include in database"
and
"Enable USN Journal"

Whats the difference?

When do I enable the one but not the other?

Does disabling USN Journal has a disadvantage?

Peter

pstein

As far as I can see there is no way to print the current list of found files, The printed file list should (only) contain all current columns in the order and width and sorting as they are currently displayed. Exporting them as text file shows e.g. full paths at left side and with no column adjustme...

pstein

Ok, I understand. But this is not intuitive. My guess is that 99% of the users would like to distinguish between files and folders and not between path and basename. So may I suggest to adjust the meaning of "Match Path" accordingly? ...or introduce a new Submenu entry "Match only fil...

pstein

Assume I enter a keyword e.g. "Windows 10" Now I disable menu Search--->Match Path Yes, all entries which contain "Windows 10" in the path column are vanishing. But in the "Name" column still entries appear which contain the pattern "Windows 10" even when they...

pstein

Assume I search for a certain pattern and sort the results by their "path" column.

Then always the folders appear at the top.

How can I tell Everything to put the folder lines in result list at the "correct" place in the sort order (=between files)?

Peter

pstein

When I run Everything it automatically creates a file "Run History.csv".

How can I disable this logging?

Peter

pstein

In general I let Everything search for files and folders in my partition D: I included this partition in the database in option Indexes/NTFS dialog of Everything. It works fine. However occasionally I want to search (only) in a different partition E: I could now go to options and change the Indexes/...

pstein

Ok, it seems to work now. However having to specify "nopath:" AND "file:" is somehow from my point of view doubled. If users specify "file:" then the path with all the folders should automatically NOT be inspected. "file:" should automatically internally enabl...

pstein

Have a look at the attached sample snapshot resp. here:

http://www.picfront.org/d/9AIL

Why is e.g. the marked file lsited as result?
I can only be because of the folder name

Yes, menu Search-->Enable RegEx is disabled

Peter

: sample mismatch folder matched.png (148.73 KiB) Viewed 4310 times

pstein

Ok, thank you. It works. However originally I thought about a real letter as char which means NOT blank and NOT digit. So a file name like "aaa9bbb ccc" should be omitted as well. How can I improve this reg exp to exclude digits as well? I want to see only results with chars or special cha...

pstein

Ok thank you, BUT this does not work:

file:regex:" -[^ ]"

Still some matchings of folders are listed.

How do I have to concatenate

file:

and

regexp:

otherwise?

Peter

pstein

Can I call Everything with a pattern as search parameter?

Assume I want to search for pattern "aaa bbb" then I need something like

D:\tools\Everything\everything.exe -search "aaa bbb"

But this doesn't work.

Is it possible otherwise?

Thank you
Peter

pstein

Assume I want to let Everything show all files with the pattern

aaa<any char except blank>bbb<blank>ccc

How can I achieve this?

I guess I must use a regular expression but how exactly?

"aaa.*bbb ccc"

does not work.

Peter

pstein

How to restrict search pattern to file names?

If I disable menu

Search--->Match Path

does that mean that folders/folder names are not considered?

Peter

pstein

Its now a while since the last non-beta version v1.3.4 was released (back in 2014).

When will the new v1.4 switch from beta to final?

Peter

pstein

@aussieboykie: Yes, thank you, I know already these options. Unfortunately there is one disadvantage when matching full path: ALL files are listed. Now assume I have simplified a folder D:\aaa\bbb\ccc\...\....\...\ Where ccc is the top node of a big directory tree. Now I enter "ccc" as sea...

pstein

This does NOT work.

Result list is the same as the original without regex stuff

pstein

Thank you, but these functions do not meet my requirements Let me tell it in other words: Example: Assume users search for "ccc" ("Match path" is enabled) If then result line A is a subdirectory (or subdirectory+file) of line B then line A should be omitted/suppressed. sample res...

pstein

Assume I search a certain pattern (e.g. "aaa") in file+foldernames (pathes). One folder with a (big) directory tree contains such a pattern. Than means that ALL folders (and files) below are listed as well. Example: D:\some\path\aaa-logs\2015\foo\bar\1111.log D:\some\path\aaa-logs\2015\foo...

pstein

Assume I want to enter multiple patterns As far as I can see (at least here) it is NOT possible to search them in filename AND corresponding path at the same time. Example: I enter log 2015 then the following file is NOT found: D:\archive\branchdev\logfiles\res\10.2015.dat This is because "log&...

pstein

At startup of Windows 7 I want Everything to start minimized (into Systray). How can I achieve this? Is there a cmdline parameter like Everything.exe /MIN This minimized start should take place only once at startup In contrast when I manually double click later (not at startup) on everything.exe it ...

pstein

Just a remark about the solution I found meanwhile: The NTFS clusters were partially damaged. I run the built-in "chkdsk" command over the partition (with auto-repair flag). Afterwards everything was fine with Everything. Everything should show a more intuitive warning/error message like &...

pstein

I have installed Everything at first on my Desktop computer (64bit Win7). In options I enabled "Multi-user database filename" and disabled "Filters" menu Everything works fine. The corresponding database Everything.MAGGIE.Peter.db is about 15 MB. When I leave the search field emp...

pstein

Assume I want to search for all files/folders which contain the string "port" but don't show the files/folders which contain "report" (=many, many).

How can I specify this in the search entry field?

The common syntax

port -report

does not work.

Peter

pstein

I want to run Everything from my USB flash drive on various computers. Hence Everything must keep multiple index *.db. Can ONE Everything installation distinct between different computers? I found so far only one Everything.db. Are indexes for multiple computers all kept in one db file ? Is there a ...

pstein

salazor wrote:
Code: Select all
always_keep_sort=1
http://www.voidtools.com/support/everyt ... _keep_sort

Works fine. Thank you.

But I had to change the value from 0 to 1 MANUALLY.
I think this is a bug.

The value should changeable from GUI according tio the selected entry in

General-->Home--->Sort

Peter

pstein

I want to add the folder D:\temp (which is a hidden and system protected folder) to the exclude folders list in options--->Indexes--->Exclude Unfortunately when I click on "Add folder" this folder is NOT visible/selectable. However files from this folder are found and listed in the result ...

pstein

When I search for a certain pattern, then the result view table contains a couple of result lines where the second column represents the path to the file. I would appreciate if I could click on the path and Windows Explorer should open this folder in a new window. Could you include this feature in t...

pstein

I set in Options->Home->Sort=Path (Ascending) Then I exit+restart Everyting and searched for another pattern. Then ALWAYS the sort order is "Name" and NOT "path". It seems to me that this is a bug. Or do I have to setup another option to let Everything rememeber the sort order fo...

pstein

Assume I type in Dane as search pattern. Then Everything shows me as well matching file names with the german Umlaut "ä" like Dänemark (=german name of Denmark). How can I tell Everything to really match exactly what users type. The char "a" should be different to "ä" (...

pstein

How can I tell Everything to minimized to SysTray (and not to Taskbar)?

How can I tell Everything to exit when closing window (and not minimize to SysTray)?

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