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froggie wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 3:47 pm How about dm:>2-17-03T18:07:59 or dm:>2-17-03T18:07:59.999

Thank you so much!
I like both the options you present here, because they
get the results I want, and
make more sense to me intuitively than my sort of double negative idea.
Thanks again.
Works great.

frew

Just like this: dm:2004-06-15T16:04 will find a file with this time modified field in the results list ==> dm:2004-06-15T16:04 Thanks so much. Yes this works great. I understand now, with your clear explanations. An interesting note. I just happened to be going through some old wav audio files, hav...

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Hello, I search for a bunch of music files on my computer. I sort the results by date modified. I want to get more specific and show only results, for example, that are date modified after 10-13-03 7:13pm I know how to do the day month and year, for example, dm:>10-13-03 works great. Yet I can't fig...

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Thanks for the links ovg.

NotNull, thank you for the ideas you presented. I look into these things and will reply back.

Thanks again to you both for your help with this! Much appreciated.

frew

Thanks so much for your help with this. I am trying out your searches, so far so good. I'm also trying to figure out how the regular expressions work. I know it will take some time, but seems to be a powerful searching method, especially within Everything. Wow, so somehow that regular expressions yo...

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Hello, could someone please help me with a couple related searches I'm trying to accomplish? I have many mp3 files on my computer whose filenames over the years I have put a bunch of g's in a row in, in order to indicate that these mp3s have me playing guitar in them. I want to organize the files so...

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Hello, Thank you so much for the fantastic View> Sort By> Randomize! Wow, I love this option so much! This is going to help me in my creative process of selecting sounds that surprise and delight me. Very much appreciated! And to be able to add a custom shortcut, just incredible! I should have donat...

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I love Everything too! I was just going to make a post about this, but I'll just add to this one. Yes, I was just using Everything and realized how smooth and fast it makes my workflow. Used to take so long to find files and folders with other search methods. So glad I do not have to use the old way...

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Try https://ytroulette.com Thanks, yeah that's a fun site. Had never been there. Still trying to think of ways to have Everything search results be accessible to me in randomized sort order. How to search my hard drive for all .wav, for example, and then sort them randomly. Just seems like such a f...

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...RandomMP3.ps1... I am trying for a situation where I am not using a media player for anything except playback. Also I do not want to have to use a script to do the randomizing. (I just want to be able to click a button, or something like that.) I'm hoping for a sort order that does the randomizi...

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Hi, (bringing this topic back up from a while ago) I'm wondering if there's any other ideas on this. I wish to find all mp3 on my hard drive, then have them be sorted randomly. I do not have skills at scripts or open source etc. I feel the need to have this random sort order ability for any filetype...

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Sorry, bringing up old topic, but figured I'd ask on this one instead of starting new topic. Just wondering if there's a way to do sort by random that I might not know of. Not wanting to do shuffle in media player. Rather wanting to browse hard drive, find list of files, and then randomize their sor...

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I love this Bookmarks menu and submenu capability of Everything. Here's what I did and I love how it works: "C:\Users\main\AppData\Roaming\Everything\Everything.ini" menu_folders=1 menu_folder_separator=\=\ And I edited this file, here's some examples: "C:\Users\main\AppData\Roaming\E...

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Once again, thank you very much.

That really cleared things up, and I appreciate it.

frew

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On any line you will see the ID (FRN) of the file *ON DISK* (second column), the number of names this file has (first column) and every name of the file (third column and beyond) Okay, I opened the MyWAVs_duplicates.csv in LibreOffice and everything looks pretty good, but I'm wondering about a few ...

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I can't offer you more than this. You know, I think you summed it up for me brilliantly. All things considered, I take your advice and I'll roll with that. I do greatly appreciate all your help, views and insights, and of course the scripts. Feeling much better about it all now, with some perspecti...

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I just tested the script with the WAV's on my local system (they're all Windows WAV's; my music is on a network share). I didn't expect to see that some of those files have 20 (!!) hardlinks ... (721 filenames result in 346 files on disk) Wow. I'm not sure what to do now. By the way, what method di...

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An alternative to create these exclude fields: Okay, I see what this does. Right, okay, it makes the job of putting in a bunch of exclude folders very quick and easy. Wow, that's pretty cool. Thanks. Under Options > Indexes > Exclude you can: "Exclude system files and folder". This will r...

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Bear with me, I got a little mixed up. I think it's worth copying and pasting the following, which I mistakenly wrote in this related recent topic: wondering how to see what paths contain no .wav files I copy this here just so that if ever any others run into this problem, and a solution is found, t...

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This is getting confusing; please keep questions in their own topic/thread (you already created a thread for that question)

Whoops...sorry for the confusion.
Your right, the other thread is the place to revisit that question.
I'll see if I can get to that script today, thanks for it.

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Stamimail wrote:He will probably need a script similiar to this to get it more easier.

Thanks. I'll check that.

frew

An alternative to create these exclude fields: * Create a textfile with the folders you want to exclude (make a copy of the output file and edit this to your liking). Okay, this may take me a while to catch up with trying this script. First time I've used these kinds of scripts. The only thing I've...

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You shouldn't use it anymore. I actually do not know how to not use it. Note that Everything just showed C: has 8855 .wav files in both of these cases: C:\Documents and Settings 1. in the exclude list 2. not in the exclude list ...interesting. both these simple tests done with Match whole filenames...

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Please let me know if this is what you meant with "wondering how to see what paths contain no .wav files" Yes, this is exactly what I meant. Thanks for the script. I hate to complicate things, because I can see that for the most part, all the paths in C_rootfolders_without_WAV.txt do not ...

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Sorry for the confusion. The message consisted of 3 parts: 1. An alternative to get a textfile with all your WAV files 2. How the script (still to be written) should do it's job 3. A check if what I think that script should report corresponds with what you would like to see. No problem. I'm new to ...

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You can get a(nother) list by using CMD: Sorry, this is all a bit over my head. I'm trying it though. So I created a folder: C:\MyFolder Then with Everything, I -exported a list of all folders in C: that contain .wav and put it here C:\MyFolder\C_only_folders_with_wav.txt -exported a list of all fo...

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I Could not get it done with just an Everything query, but I think such a list can be created with a script. Before spending time on that (I think such a script will not be straightforward): would that be of any help? Well, actually, I've never worked with scripts in the way you may be referring to...

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Compare the paths in Everything against the root folders in Windows Explorer. Thanks for the idea. I'm checking that way a bit now. So far, if I'm doing it as you suggest, it seems to be quite a bit of manual, visual comparing of many paths, between the two programs, which I was trying to avoid. Pe...

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I think that if you exclude the c:\Windows folder Thanks for the idea. The thing is though that I do actually wish to return search results that simply show me every single .wav file on C: So here's my question: Is it possible to generate a list of every single .wav file on C: without showing any d...

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Hello, I'm wondering if there's a way to show -only the folders on Drive C that -have the least number of parent folders (ie folders as close as possible to the root drive) -where the resulting folders have no .wav files in (edit: in them or in) any of their subfolders The reason being that If I wou...

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Okay, thanks for pointing that out about wildcard searches. Good to know. I think that explains a lot about some of the varied search results. Still I wish there were a simple way to just show me all the .wav on my computer. Note that the following is not a rant. Rather, I'm just painting a picture ...

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Do you mean this in a cynical way? (can't tell ...) No, actually I did not know all about any of that. But I knew something was up. Recently got Windows 10, and never had to deal with these various kinds of symbolic links, etc. Coming from XP. It seemed on XP that all the search tools returned the ...

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NotNull wrote: I guess all these programs use different definitions of what to count as a file ...

Wow, I did not know that.

Thank you for the insights.

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Thanks for the new update! Just curious about something. Any ideas about why a simple search for all .wav on C: would return varied results from one program to another? Windows 10 All searches done withing minutes, and no adding or removing of .wav in the process. I wanted to see how many .wav files...

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Please try searching for: regex:loop[^\\]*\\[^\\]*\.wav$ regex: = enable the regex modifier loop = matches loop [^\\]* = any number of any character (except a \ ) \\ = match a single \ [^\\]* = any number of any character (except a \ ) \. = match a single . wav = match the string: wav $ = match the...

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Maybe the solution would be by Run Count. Thanks for the idea, but I was hoping for perhaps a hot key combination to just randomly sort the search results. This can be fun for browsing music files sorted randomly. Because the result list is a live list of the database, sorting randomly is not an ea...

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Please try searching for: loop child:*.wav Thank you, this works great to get to the folders whose folder names contain loop, where the resulting folders also contain .wav files. I find that to be very useful too. Originally in this topic I had hoped to find a way to show only the .wav files that a...

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I suspect you do not do this by using the folder: - because it only displays folders. Try child: functions: eg: Code: Select all child:*.mp3 - find all the folders in which they are mp3, see here: viewtopic.php?p=12462#p12462 Actually, I'm trying to find a way to show only the .wav files in all the...

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Hello, Just wondering if there may be a way that I don't know of yet, to sort the results randomly. There's many fun uses for random sort. For example, to browse a music collection in a way that surprises me each time. Any way to get all my mp3s that show up in Everything searches to be sorted rando...

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Hello, Thanks for Everything. It's amazing. I'm wondering how to show all .wav files in all folder names that contain "loop" (without the quotes) on drive D. I want to browse all the wav files on drive D that are found in all the folders whose names that contain the word loop. I have hundr...

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void wrote:I have plans to add a search from a text file option.

Currently it's not easy to do this, you would need a script to convert each line into one search and this is currently limited to 100 terms.

Okay, thanks for the reply.

Thanks for Everything.

Seeya

frew

Hello, Is there a way with Everything to search my entire hard drive for a huge list of files? I have a textfile with a list of .wav thousands of filenames, like this for example: 1.wav ocean.wav bassdrum.wav synth1.wav hihat_001.wav cat purring.wav projector3.wav arrow.wav I'm looking for a way to ...

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Hello,

Is it possible to randomize the sort order of the files found?

Sometimes it would be fun, for example, to browse the mp3s I find on my hard drive
through a randomized listing of files.

Thank you,

frew

frew

Thank you very much.

For so long I've been looking for a search tool to show me all the folders on my hard drive
that contain mp3 files, and this works beautifully. And so quickly...truly amazing.

Thanks again,

frew

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Hello, I'm wondering if there is a way to show all folders on my hard drive that contain any mp3s? I don't need to see the mp3s, just the folders, if they happen to have any mp3s in them. I like to see the folders show up without having to check in the path column. By the way, I just started using E...

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