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I am using command line option -namepart *.scad and that brings up the files I want to see. I want the results sorted with most recent first. The help says "-sort <name> Set the sort to the specified name." I tried specifying Date and Modified but did not get any results. Can you clarify w...

I see the listening port, but no traffic. Sorry, but I don't know what it is for.

What are you using to see the network traffic? I can try to take a look and see if it is happening on my system.

Cool idea. I tend to just put in .exe and the partial name I am looking for right into the Everything list. I keep it open all the time so it is fast. maybe I should make a little "runner"....

You could delete everything.db

Use Search Everything to find them (there might be a couple), right click and open path (because you won't be able to delete it when Everything is active), close and make sure you have exited everything (from the systray too) and then delete the files and restart.

Spammers are deleted. Flag posts and I will keep checking the flagged list.

David, the correct answer is I will consider BOTH of those suggestions.

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void wrote:...BOOL IsNTFSVolumeIndexed(TCHAR *volume)?...

this would work well for me. Not sure what others might want.

I will try the root: thing for now.

Thanks.

Oh, I had not thought about files starting with xxx because they don't appear on the screen that way, but of course if you look at them as a complete path and name then it does indeed match......

I should have known better than to doubt Search Everything.

therube wrote:WizTree finds the files and folders using the most disk space on your hard drive

The only problem is that it finds the top 1,000 largest files, lickety-split .

Wow! the Search Everything of sizes. David, what about checking that out for gathering info for size and date and time stamps?

It takes almost the same amount of time to find the single largest file as to find the top 100. Why? To know that any given file is the largest you must read the size of every file. In doing that (involves reading the directory and not just the journals) you have only the overhead of checking to see...

In trying to find all folders with xxx in their names. I tried both \xxx and \ xxx in 636b

In both cases I get results with xxx in the file name and no xxx in the path. I was thinking that was not a match.

David, what are you thinking about that?

I am revising my old search program (predates SE by a long shot). I am wanting to add SE for those drives that can benefit using the SDK. I have the interface working but wanted to refine it by checking the drive in the search request (if there is one) with the list of drives that SE is scanning. If...

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Everything will contain 99% of the code which I was planned to write.
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check out the SDK to get files that match the search. http://support.voidtools.com/everything/SDK

also check out Wismo on www.grc.com in Freeware, Utilities. And check out the whole site.

It does lots of interesting things.

go to a command prompt in windows and enter FIND /?

Maybe someday SE will have an extension to build a list of files and can be used with FIND to do that text search.

Searching inside files is relatively slow and SE is a cheetah among the animals of windows....

One of the things that I have wished for (and I think mentioned years ago) is the ability to drop a file onto a file in the SE results list. Why do that? Often I want to copy or move a file to a location that is in the results list, but not as a folder (hence cannot receive files). With the ability ...

WyleySam wrote:Yes, I know. But the ability to sort it would make it easier to find items when the list gets bigger.

What if you were able to winnow the list down by typing and only the entries that contained the characters entered were in the displayed list?

void wrote:I have implemented the option to search for files and folders in the last few minutes / hours for the next release of Everything....

Is there some slick way to do this or do you have to look at every file in the system to check the date stamp?

I am using WinDev to connect with the Everything.DLL. It seems to work perfectly on my systems (win 7 and win 8), but not so for one of my customers. The GetLastError returns 2 (no IPC) whether or not Everything is running. Is there something else besides Everything not running that could cause that...

I "assume" the old DLL files from the SDK and from the Clarion connection will not work with this new version? I admit I am holding back because 1.2.1.451a runs so nicely for me and I am afraid to lose anything.... Perhaps I should have SE and SEnew and try it. If they don't will there be ...

Was your truecrypt volume formated NTFS or FAT? The default is FAT and that is not compatible with Search Everything. Check out the type. You can see that by right clicking on the mounted drive letter and select properties.

How do you do this? Everything has to read every directory record to pick up the size and that is not nearly as fast as getting the name and type directly from the file system.

Bob

Searching by date or size will very much slow down the search. In order to search by file date or size EVERY file in the system must be examined and the date and time and size extracted. With search by name, path or extension only an internal table maintained by Everything needs to be searched. That...

I am also running to more and more instances of files not found when I know they are there. It ran for a long time with no problems. This seems to be a recent development. I can navigate to them using explorer (but it is SO much easier with Everything). I am using 451a. I will check the error logs a...

Thumbnails will slow it down (they have to come from somewhere) so it would be OK but they should be optional. I have already noticed a slowdown in Windows 7 when I display a "details" screen in Explorer of my videos. It seems to go nuts trying to figure out some attributes when I all I wa...

I am sorry, but the NAS cannot be searched at this time by Everything. They can actually be formatted in a variety of ways and the programming within the NAS takes care of getting them to you in a fashion that windows understands. Alas -- no parameters for everything to search. One big drawback to N...

therube wrote:Without having checked, but ...

> 1. "unlock" truecrypt volumes (everything keeps blocking them so I have to force them to be unmounted)
thinking, hoping it is a known issue....

So THAT'S why I keep getting that message about unable to unmount.........

It indexes them beautifully. That is how I find and kill them.

SE on Content.IE5 with paths enabled, sort by name and highlight all the crazy named folders and shift-delete. Poof they are gone!

...Win 7 search was useless in this task. Found a note about your utility in an online post, downloaded it, and found the file in 5 seconds. THANKS!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D You will NEVER go back to "normal" searching. I use SE 50 or more times each day. It is my program launcher for all but the...

From memory: In Options there is a choice to include or exclude a volume. You exclude the volume and apply that then include it and it should rescan. Never trust memory! Options, Volumes, select the volume you want to reindex, UNcheck include in database, APPLY, check Include in data base and apply....

Is there any other program that will do what it does?

I use Win-Z for SE. It is closer for my two fingers. AND I get the best of both worlds, I still have windows search (but have never used it).

Slick! Thanks. I had to add a couple for each drive. Win 7 calls them $recycle.bin and XP called them recycler

If you need to change one of them, just double click it to bring it up in edit mode.

Bob Roos

I am confused by this. To get clear, obviously it CAN do a sort, but you have to ask it to do so by clickin gon the Date Modified column. And even then it say are you sure? And warn you that this might take a long time .... Ship The dates displayed are retrieved as the screen is being built and onl...

It is not just Windows explorer that you won't use, but the drill down dialog in Open/Save. When i want to open a file I hotkey to SE and in a few keystrokes have it on the screen, right click and copy the name and path (I keep forgetting the hotkey), then in the open dialog where it says file name ...

MSOfficeMan -- welcome to the community of the True Believers. Yes, the program is that great and David is in the same league as Steve Gibson (maybe even better because he seems to be better at following through with an idea).

void wrote:Maybe an "Are you sure?" message if you are trying to right click more than 1000 files

Or even 500! There is a limit and it would probably vary from machine to machine. I have made this mistake before and would appreciate a tap on the shoulder.

I don't think you need to uninstall anything.

{2559a1f0-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0} appears to be registry talk for "search". I don't know the exact details, but Win 7 handles things differently when trying to edit the registry. I am not sure this would work for Win 7 or for Vista.

Excellent idea! I am close to that with Win 7 and the multiple mini windows when I hover over the task icon on the taskbar. But a tabbed search with the tab title being the search argument would be absolutely fantastic and a lot less mousing around. I reuse the searches a lot.

How about just setting a hotkey and ignoring Explorer Search all together? I just set Win-Z as my hotkey and use it like mad all day long. The explorer search takes more keystrokes/mouse clicks to get to.

I have downloaded that file dozens of times and several times in the last few days. I install immediately afterwards and have never had a problem. I am a PC Consultant and use SE on client's machines all the time. Sometimes I install from a stick and sometimes download. I believe that the source fil...

April 2010 issue page 71 in the [Productivity] section -- Get things done faster.

They sure got that right (except they forgot to say NTFS only)! I would be absolutely lost without my SE. I use it for just about EVERYTHING.

It is a fantastic program. I think it is written in a C language. I don't have a reference for that, but is my recollection.

I am exhausted just looking at the list!

I am also getting various problems when deleting files and folders in Win 7 (64 bit). I use SE to find files I want to get rid of and when I start deleting them from the list I often get "Program not responding" and folders and files still showing up after they have been deleted. But the f...

... I'm just running regular 1.2.1.371 ~ sgould I be running a beta or something to get these features? ~~~ Even thought Everything does not index on date, date could still be much quicker than Window search as a post-filter, as long as the main filter was fairly effective. Greetings, Stephen Try t...

True, but you can use the hot key to bring it up and type in your search argument. When the indexing is finished it will return the results.

It would be a good suggestion to turn the icon a different color to indicate "busy".

Everything does not search inside a document or any file. It is limited to what is in the file name (and I hope it stays that way). Searching inside files is very time consuming. There are other tools for that. Check out Grep for windows http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm

MaX2 wrote:Hi,

I have a problem in Windows 7 64-bit, the hotkeys do not show the search window.

I use Win 7 64 bit and have my hotkeys set to Win-Z. It works perfectly for me 100+ times a day. I use it constantly. What do you have your hot key set to? Could there be a conflict with some other program?

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