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I would like to suggest a option for a workspace. I have the portable version installed in my Dropbox folder, so I can run everything from any of my computers. The simplest version of this is to create a directory with the value of %computername% and store the INI and DB and any other file there for...

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I download Everything.chm.zip --- when unzipped the file

Everything.chm

does not seem to have any info on the noted topics --- what did I miss here?

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app_data key does not exist in the *.ini file

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I notoced that this option is listed in the "install section", So when I set it on the command line everything.exe just seems start and end and there is no search window --- so does -noapp-data set a flag? if so, is it in the *.ini file? thanks

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thanks for the info --- is the numeric value in the filelist the create and modified time, for the file? If its value UTC not local time?

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I am using the portable version --- is %appdata% still used in the case?

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Hello --- I was trying to build a "filelist" using the filelist editor of a network drive. I mapped the drive as Q: but it does now show up in the "add folder" option in the pop-up menu --- what strange about this is that the other mapped drivers are in the list -- what did I mis...

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thanks for that info ---

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Hello --- Is the option or ini setting such that when I end everything is terminates and does not stay memory resident?

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thanks for the info -- I recall reading that the time in the efu file could be in iso8601 format so would a string in the form

2020-11-11T15:30Z

or

2020-05-05T11:12-05:00

work?

Thanks

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Hello --- the 3 timestamps in the efu file is the 64-bit value that windows stores for the timestamp of the file --- by definition that value is GMT, so is the value in the efu file the GMT value? Thanks

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Hello --- this is a neat option --- If I put it on the usb drive and run it from computer to computer, does the *.ini (*.db) file keep track of the different computers? Thanks

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thanks for the info

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Hello --- the 3 timestamps in a file list are the modified, create and access times --- what is the order of these values (from left to right) thanks

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Hello -- AS being an old-timer here, I wrote a program in the rexx programming language which goes back over 25 years with it start on IBM mainframe. There are download for rexx ( window version ) at rexx.org -- the windows port is called regina. In addition to the base language, there are some func...

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Thanks for the screenshots. Please try enabling date created indexing: In Everything , from the Tools menu, click Options . Click the Index tab on the left. Check Index Date Created . Click OK . When you add a file list to your Everything index, only the file information you select under Tools -> O...

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Hello -- Thanks for the reply --- not sure what the second image is ---- what version of everything are you using?

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Hello -- Thanks for your reply ... Not sure what the issue could be on my side .... its the same for all my computers --- Here is the screen shots requested --- I am using the latest version of everywhere I am using the same efu file attached to this question -- as you can see in the screenshot, the...

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Hello -- some time ago it was posted that the file time(s) in the file list is the 64 bit value stored in the ntfs file system --- and in addition iso8601 format was also supported --- I wrote a program to build a file list ( I seems that I have too many usb drive to remember were stuff is ) for my ...

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thanks for the info

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Hello -- Just one more point about the filelist format -- I noticed that in come cases if the file/object is a directory/folder the size of it is zero (0) (at least for windows -- but in the eff file I would see ..... ,0, ..... or ....... ,, ........... are both these entries the same, noting a 0 si...

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thanks for the info

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hello -- is the file timestamps saved in the filelist file a UTC value?

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hello -- when file-lists are process, what happens if there is a duplicate entry in multiple efu files -- where the entry is pointing to the same
files, but one or more attributes changed -- ie, timestamp -- size

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hello -- the for the info --

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hello -- thanks for for the info ... worked great ... just one issue -- since the original install was done as admin, "everything" only appeared in start list for that user --- when I when to the second id -- there was no entry in the start list for everything -- I did get it to run by typ...

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Hello -- I have been running everything as an admin ... but now realized that only the admin id can use it -- I would now
like to run it as a service so other id's can use it --

what is the best way to update the install to a service?

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Hello -- will everything scan all drive letters even if they are not local drives? ie mapped network drives and if there are
drive letters via the subst ??

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Thanks for the update

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Since "everyting" is now integrated into Take Command" would it make sense to add a field to the file meta data to also include the "description" information
that Take can also add/collect?

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Hello --

I been using filelist as a way to keep track of usb hard drives that are not connected to the computer --

I updated the filelist efu file but the "running" everything did not update?

Is this a bug or how everything works?

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Hello --

Once a files list is read, will everything re-read it if its changed?

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Hello -- will everything load a files if the files noted in the list are not physically reachable? I have USB drives that have 1M+ files on them and they don't change that often, so filelist are OK for them -- I have the list added to the code, but the content is no showing in the search window than...

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Hello -- How does everything know that one of the filelists have been update after its processed it ?

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Hello -- thanks for the info -- bzip2 is fine too -- I think it does a better compressing job than gzip --

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I been working on a slow download in a vm running everything -- I have large "file list"
since these files are just text, wold it make sense to support gzip compression? adding a new filetype *.efuz ?

To test this, I had one file compress over 85%

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hello --

Thanks for the info ... take command installed everything in the same folder as take -- and puts the everything.ini in the same place.

would everything still use %appdata%

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Hello --

I recently installed everything on my computer ... after that I update my copy of JPSoft's take command to the latest version and that
version installs everything too --

Is this a problem? can I have 2 instances of everything running?

Thanks

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Hello -- Once a file list is created and added to everything via the option menu, will its content be in the search
window along with the NTFS (local drives)?

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Hello -- Don't know if this is connected, but my win7 64bit system crashed the other day. It did start to slow done and I did notice that the storage commit rate was more the the real storage on the system does "everything" try to keep all the scans in storage? Or maybe it was my setting -...

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Hello --

Not sure what I am missing -- but the item is the standard network list and Its not clear where type the info

I figured out that by hacking the INI file I got the share inplace

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Hello --

it seems that this entire issue can be fixed by using the GUID at is assigned to the drive in question --

The GUID is the value that is visible with the mountvol command

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Hello -- So, If I want to manually keep track of usb external drives the "auto include external volumes" need to be unchecked ? So then when I connect the usb drive, if the OS connects it as J: I can add all the files on J: as a fileslist? Does the filelist have a name, because it is possi...

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Hello -- I was trying to add a network share in he form

\\server\share

When I select the network option, the server that I want to use is not in the list -- Is there a manual way to
add

\\server\share

to the list?

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Hello -- just to confirm -- I find that the usb/external drives that I connect to the system tend to share the same drive letter for example - I have an external drive now on my system -- and this is want mountvol reports \\?\Volume{9d1e5446-8043-11e1-b87a-00c09f5a203e}\ U:\ so, if I change the mapp...

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Can "everything" keep track of file content on usb/external drive?

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