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aussieboykie

void wrote: ↑Wed Feb 06, 2019 7:12 am es exports text as UTF-8.

Thanks for clarifying. There is no BOM on the exported text file so by default (for my use case) it is not recognised as such. However, I can force the import to assume UTF-8 and that works. Would you consider adding a BOM, or an option to do so?

aussieboykie

This is probably best explained with output from a command window. The first 3 lines show what happens when ES is executed normally and this is exactly what I expect to see. However, note what happens to "prüfung" (with diacritics) when output is written to a text file. c:\test>es.exe prüf...

aussieboykie

Thanks for considering. For now I can use <dm:last10jan|dm:jan> to cover the last 10 years.

aussieboykie

C:\SomeFolder dm:jan will find all January items from the current year and C:\SomeFolder dm:last10jan will find all January items from the last 10 years excluding the current year It would be useful to have a way of finding all January items regardless of year, past or current, e.g. C:\SomeFolder d...

aussieboykie

Another Firefox update came through today. This time I was paying attention and managed to capture a debug log. I followed your instructions and hopefully you will be able to find something useful. The log was sent to support@voidtools.com a few minutes ago.

aussieboykie

The Help entry for Type simply specifies the correct format: type:<type> Search for files and folders with the specified type. What's missing is an explanation of what constitutes a valid <type>. Evidently video is not a valid type, nor is image . The only valid types appear to be file and folder wh...

aussieboykie

NotNull wrote:@aussieboykie: What version of Everything are you running?

1.4.1.895 (x64)

aussieboykie

Thanks for looking at this. Firefox is up to date so I can't currently upgrade it. I have set the option to alert me when an update is available and will debug when that happens. Would an alternative be to uninstall and reinstall? The executable is in Program Files and there is no Mozilla Firefox fo...

aussieboykie

An update to this old post of mine. The same thing has just happened again. In case it's relevant, firefox.exe (version 62.0.3.6848) was not found but firefox.exe.sig with the same timestamp as firefox.exe was. Both are located in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox. Forcing an index rebuild fixed the ...

aussieboykie

Oops. Already answered here.

aussieboykie

How do I pass a quoted search string to Everything? As expected, everything -s "expense claims\" gives me: Everything1.jpg This is what I want to achieve (showing a hand coded example): Everything2.jpg I had hoped that triple quotes would do the trick but everything -s """ex...

aussieboykie

therube wrote:Nothing in Tools | Options -> Indexes ==> Exclude?
No filters in effect?

Try a (Tools | Options -> Indexes) Force Rebuild of the index?

There were no filters in effect but your suggestion of forcing an index rebuild did the trick. Thank you.

aussieboykie

Interesting idea! It was worth checking but there is no Mozilla Firefox folder in Program Files and the firefox.exe in Program Files (x86) is very definitely an EXE and not a link. This is really weird.

aussieboykie

More investigation appears to confirm that it is only firefox.exe that is not being found. If I search with Everything for "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\" 128 objects are listed whereas if I use Directory Opus flat view to look at the same folder a total of 129 objects are listed...

aussieboykie

If I navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox the firefox.exe executable is present but when I search for it with Everything it is not found. I have tried searching for other items in the same folder (e.g. crashreporter.exe or chrome.manifest) and they are found without a problem. If I mak...

aussieboykie

Example:

es -r ^^winword\.exe$ correctly generates..

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\WINWORD.EXE

es -path c:\ -r ^^winword\.exe$ returns zero hits

Using -path works fine with a non-regex search.

Regards, AB

aussieboykie

Thanks. All good now.

aussieboykie

If I execute the following command: es.exe -r -n 1 -sort date-modified-descending ^Word.exe$ The output is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\WINWORD.EXE I don't expect WINWORD.EXE to match ^Word.exe$ so it looks like my regex start of word anchor ^ has been ignored, or else I am...

aussieboykie

That would not explain how or why it works without the -r option. Interestingly, after further monkeying around, I have been able to get it working using a different approach. The way I was doing it is... var objWShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell"); objWShell.Run("cmd /c "...

aussieboykie

I am using a JScript to run a query using es.exe and writing the output to a temp file. When I execute the following non-regex query.. es.exe -export-txt C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Temp\es.txt thunderbird.exe ..the expected output is written correctly to the es.txt temp file. However, when I use the ...

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Works fine here on a W7 system... C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-explorer_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.21669_none_b0333b22a99da332\explorer.exe C:\Windows\winsxs\wow64_microsoft-windows-explorer_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.21669_none_ba87e574ddfe652d\explorer.exe C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_micros...

aussieboykie

From a BAT file or a CMD window I can enter.. everything -s "project xyz" As expected, this will pass project xyz without the quotes. How do I apply quotes so that the search matches the exact string "project xyz" ? I tried :quotproject xyz:quot but the :quot macros are not inter...

aussieboykie

Not sure if this covered by the SUBST issues listed above. In my case, SUBST drives are still being indexed after having been deleted . Specifically... earlier today I used SUBST to create S: and T: pseudo-drives mapped to folders which I subsequently deleted with (e.g.) SUBST S: /D. Now when I sear...

aussieboykie

Documentation... https://www.voidtools.com/support/every ... interface/

Regards, AB

aussieboykie

After further experimentation... When PATH is active you can double click on the word itself to switch the option off. You can also use Ctrl-U to toggle the PATH option on/off. Right mouse click on the bar at the bottom of the Everything window brings up a context menu where you can adjust various o...

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You can also force PATH recognition on by Tools --> Options --> Home --> Match path --> Enabled . After closing and reopening the Everything window you can see that the option is on as shown: everything-04.jpg If you revert to Tools --> Options --> Home --> Match path --> Use last value the enabled ...

aussieboykie

The help file is not clear (in my opinion) that path: and nopath: must be followed immediately by a string, with no intervening space, per @therube 's example above. I had incorrectly assumed that path: was a generic modifier. @pstein , as another approach there is also the handy match path separato...

aussieboykie

A few suggestions to hopefully improve your experience. Tools --> Options --> History and check both options under Search History. Once you have done this you will be able to use a drop down at the right of the search field to recall previous searches. Tools --> Options --> Results and check Sort da...

aussieboykie

Problem solved. As shown, the Results options page allows two different "sort first" options to be checked concurrently in which case the second option apparently prevails. These choices should be mutually exclusive.

: everything-02.jpg (63.66 KiB) Viewed 5029 times

Regards, AB

aussieboykie

@therube Date Modified doesn't seem to work/stick for me. Per your advice I also set Options | Indexes, Index date modified & Fast date modified sort and I am running 1.4.0.713b.

: everything-01.jpg (98.64 KiB) Viewed 5030 times

Regards, AB

aussieboykie

ES currently supports all of the built-in search terms such as dm:thismonth , ext:xls;doc , and more complex constructs like <dm:thisweek|dm:lastweek> so I must say I was surprised to discover that a simple es foo: doesn't work. Anyway, c'est la vie I suppose. Maybe David will consider adding suppor...

aussieboykie

If I have a bookmark called foo I would like to use the CLI to execute.. ES foo: ..and have it resolve the saved bookmark. However, from a quick test it looks like bookmarks are not resolved by the ES command line interface. Have I missed something or is this a limitation within es.exe? Regards, AB

aussieboykie

Currently es.exe includes a sort switch (-s) to sort by full path. I'd like a switch to sort by modified date, newest first by default.

Regards, AB

aussieboykie

It seems I need to enable Run as administrator for SearchEverything to work in W7. I had not switched this option on on the assumption that it was not needed when using the Everything Service option, and it is apparently not needed on XP as SearchEverything works without it. SE-001.png Regards, AB

aussieboykie

I have been participating in discussion on a long thread about SearchEverything on the Directory Opus resource centre. I have SearchEverything working perfectly in a 32-bit XP virtual machine but can't get it going on a variety of 64-bit real and virtual W7 systems. A recent post by @onedot3 confirm...

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ES -export-txt with non-ASCII

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Search for month in ANY year

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