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jimspoon

I will consider an option to drop onto any subpath part under the Path column. For example, if the Path column shows: C:\111\222\333 You want to be able to drop onto the C:\111 subpath Currently, you can only drop onto C:\111\222\333 I think this would be very useful. Say a file is contained in the...

jimspoon

Thank you for this help for the Advanced Rename command. As far as I can tell, all the help provided here would also apply to the Advanced Copy to Folder and Advanced Move to Folder commands, am I right about that? The only difference I see between the Advanced Rename and Advanced Copy/Move to Folde...

jimspoon

Ah, thanks Void! I should have figured that out. I've had some problems lately with keystrokes not appearing for a long time in the Everything search box, and in other programs too, but when I shut down Everything that problem went away. Trying to isolate the problem, I "ejected" two exter...

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Somehow I accumulated a long list of drives in my "Local NTFS Volumes" list (Tools > Options > Indexes > NTFS), most shown as Offline. I went through most of the offline volumes and unchecked the "Include in database" box, and clicked the Apply button. Presumably that means these...

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Great! I'm curious why dm:today worked on my desktop while it failed on my desktop, I guess it was because of the very much higher number of files on my desktop? (32 million files/folders). And now I'm wondering - if I had preceded dm:today with other filters that would have reduced the number of fi...

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Away from my desktop for a day or two but I can answer some questions I think. Everything finds 26 million files and 2 million folders modified today. The search takes 75 seconds. Is this unexpected? Yes very! There's no way there were that many files and folders modified today (see below about how ...

jimspoon

Hi Void, the date-modified searches didn't work on my desktop - didn't filter out any files. I generated the debug log and it is attached. Also I entered the "/=FORMATFILETIME(NOW())" command and the following appears in the search box: "2024.04.06 10:57:17" (without the quotes)....

jimspoon

Thank you Void I will do as you have suggested. For right now however I just want to report that the dm: function seems to be working just fine on my laptop. dm: searches that did not work on my desktop are working on the laptop. I will get back with you with debug info for the desktop. On the deskt...

jimspoon

Some date-modified searches aren't working on my desktop. Running 1.5.0.1371a. For example, I've tried some of the examples shown at https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10176 - including: dm:today - not working dm:2024 - not working dm:10mins - not working When I do these searches, no fi...

jimspoon

Everything finds files based on the values of Everything Properties and Windows System Properties. These properties sometimes are derived from EXIF/IPTC/XMP etc metadata tags embedded in files. We may use various tools that read/write the underlying EXIF/IPTC/XMP tags instead of working with Everyth...

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Thank you for that info Void. Being interested to see how JPEG IPTC/XMP metadata fields map to the WPS and Everything properties, I found some interesting pages on the Microsoft website. I just googled the canonical name of some WPS properties, and found pages that described the "policies"...

jimspoon

well maybe the answer is here - from https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10215 "Everything has native support for EXIF. If any property is unknown, Everything will fall back to the Windows Property System. What you see in Everything should be the same as in Windows Explorer. (well t...

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Looking at a JPG file in different programs for viewing metadata, just for example, specifically at the what shows up as "Tags" in Everything. Exiftool shows the same value at two different locations: "[JPEG-APP1-XMP] Subject" (shows up as "[XMP-dc] Subject" if I select...

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I was trying to figure a way to sort a bunch of MOVs and JPGs by the time that they were taken. The "Date Taken" column doesn't work because the this value is empty for MOV files. Don't know if that's true for other video formats like MP4s, will test that. Anyway I found that "Content...

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Say I want to sort found files by a string contained somewhere in the filename, for example, and underscore followed by four digits, no matter where in the filename it occurs. This works: "regex:name:_\d\d\d\d sort:regmatch0" I thought I had it working also with "sort:name:regex:_\d\d...

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I was running into an installation error and Googled about it. \Windows\Installer has a bunch of .msi and other files. The files have names consisting of hex numbers. I learned that the "Subject" column in File Explorer will show meaningful names for these files. This way I was able to loc...

jimspoon

Is there anyway to do this with a one-liner, something like "setfilelist1:child-file-count:=20 parentfilelist1:"?

jimspoon

Thanks Void!

jimspoon

I found a way to do it. First find the parent folders with the specified property value, e.g. "child-file-count:=89". Then put those folders in a file list slot, e.g. "filelist1:". Then search for "parentfilelist1:" This will show the children of the folder that has the...

jimspoon

Say I had a parent folder to which I assigned several custom property values, and I wanted to show the children of those parents. If I could do that, I might not have to assign those custom property values to the children of that parent folder. For example say I assigned a custom property named &quo...

jimspoon

Thanks NotNull!

jimspoon

Some property names are rather long, so I'm wondering, is there another way to substitute an abbreviation for the property name in the column header? I've found add-column column-x; column-x:=columnforumula, column-x-label:"newlabel" - but it's a little complicated. I figure there's anothe...

jimspoon

Thanks Void !! (It surprised me to see PropertySystemView list 60 properties for a plain text file!)

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I was experimenting with Nirsoft's PropertySystemView and was a bit surprised that it displays many Windows System Properties for even a simple plain text file. I wonder where these properties are coming from. Since it's a plain text file, they aren't stored in the file's primary stream; nor are the...

jimspoon

Thank you Void. If new_inherit is set to True, and I have multiple Everything windows already open, each with different settings, which window does the new window inherit settings from? Maybe the window that was last active when the new window is opened?

jimspoon

In Tools > Options > General > Home, there are various settings where one of the options is "Use Last Value". For example, the setting for Columns:. I assume that these settings in Home are applied to new search windows are opened, and that "Use Last Value" means that the setting...

jimspoon

Suddenly I have files in my OneDrive folder on one laptop that are not uploading to the cloud. The same files do upload from a different laptop to the cloud. So the problem seems to be on this particular laptop. I've tried Unlinking and Relinking, and Resetting OneDrive. Still the files in question ...

jimspoon

That's a great tip, thanks very much. I hadn't really considered that Google search with an appropriate site: modifier could be an effective tool for searching for forum posts, and for certain searches, better than the forum software's own search mechanism.

jimspoon

Is there a way to search for posts in this forum containing a specific phrase, i.e. the words must be in the specified sequence? e.g. "file id", "end of file". I tried enclosing the phrase in double-quotes and the + sign, with the "search for all terms" radio button sel...

jimspoon

Thank you Void, now I see that Everything does export the visible columns to an EFU file. Sorry I missed that. That takes care of everything! I'm looking forward to exporting my offline volumes to EFUs.

jimspoon

I'm exploring how i might use Everything to catalog files on offline as well as online volumes. It seems I could save more columns of file info using CSV rather than EFU, but two problems (1) if I open the CSV in Everything, I can't open a listed file by double-clicking on it; (2) I can't index a CS...

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I was not able to connect to the ETP server but I got it working both the ETP and HTTP servers working very easily today. In the Everything plugin settings, I set the ETP server to port 2121 and the HTTP server to port 8080. I don't know if it was necessary, but I set up two port forwarding rules in...

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Thanks Notnull, that's very helpful. On the subject of getting objects to put into the Powershell pipeline, I remembered I had seen a video about a new way to do that. I found it and it's called Crescendo ( https://github.com/PowerShell/Crescendo ): Crescendo is a development accelerator enabling yo...

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My specific use case - Thunderbird allows for emails to be stored in "maildir" format, i.e. individual files for each email with an .eml extension. But to be used in Thunderbird, the .eml files must be located in folders in the Thunderbird profile folder. The names that Thunderbird gives t...

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Is there an Everything Property or Windows Property System property that contains the $Object_ID NTFS file attribute? I can create it using "fsutil objectid create", and see it using "fsutil objectid query". (Along with BirthVolume ID, BirthObjectID ID, and Domain ID.) It might b...

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https://i.imgur.com/dVIhkjw.jpeg I created the "Custom Property Test" property using CustomWindowsProperties from https://github.com/Dijji/CustomWindowsProperties. I was able to add the new property as a column in Everything. At first I didn't see how to get any data into the new property...

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Is it possible that values could be editable in place in the Everything results list? Maybe property values could be changed for all selected items. If custom properties could be included in a CSV file, that would open up great possibilities even before there is a UI to edit values etc - we could us...

jimspoon

I have long wanted to be able to create my own custom properties for files, fill them with my own custom values, and then use Everything to search for files based on the values in those custom properties. I read about how Sharepoint allows the creation of custom metadata for files (not sure how comp...

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I've just been doing a little experimenting with PropertySystemView ( https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/windows_property_system_view.html ). I think Everything users might find it very interesting, it might be a nice companion app for Everything. I dragged a plain TXT file from Everything to PSV and PSV...

jimspoon

What file properties, if any, are accessible via ETP?

Looking at a results list for a search of a remote system using ETP, I notice that these columns are blank: Full Path Length, Hard Link Count, Hard Link Filenames.

jimspoon

I don't know if anybody out there is as nutty as I am, but Everything shows over 27 million items in my Everything database. Using Process Explorer, Everything64.exe is currently showing Private Bytes 4,120,228K, Working Set 4,092,728K, and CPU now 51.35% I have 24GB RAM installed. The CPU is an i5-...

jimspoon

I ran a search through the posts on this thread for "dup" and "sync" and got no hits - is anybody aware of a duplicate detector or a folder synchronization utility that has Everything integrated? Tree recursion makes these programs quite slow, but I think Everything could greatly...

jimspoon

Thank you horst.epp I haven't had time to look at the AHK script yet but I definitely will.

jimspoon

I searched for certain jpg files on my desktop PC and the results list is very large. I have Everything set to the results list view set to Large Thumbnails. The thumbnails for each screen load when I scroll to the next screen down. The thumbnails are taking a long time to load, while on my laptop t...

jimspoon

It worked! Thank you very much!

jimspoon

I piped the output of es.exe to get-item and get-item returned FileInfo objects. Not sure how, or if it's as good as piping from the search-everything cmdlet, but it did work.

jimspoon

I'm a Powershell noob but I think the advantage of a Powershell cmdlet (like the search-everything cmdlet in the pseverything module) is that it returns objects instead of text. Although in the case of search-everything, it returns String objects, but it you pipe that output to Get-Item, Get-Item re...

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I'd like to get files/folders selected in Everything (or any other file manager for that matter) into a Powershell array, so that I can process and do things with each file in Powershell. I know I can pass the selected files to a Powershell script using a context menu option, that's one way, but not...

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The Powershell module pseverything communicates with the Everything 1.4 service but not the Everything 1.5 service. Has anybody found a way to get it to work with the Everything 1.5 service?

jimspoon

Is it possible to get a one hash for an entire folder, rather than the individual files? Harryray, do you mean a single checksum calculated from the data in all the files in the folder? If so, how can that be used? I guess it just tells you that there has been no file in the folder has been added /...

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