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EricB

Hi void, I did some experimenting MD5-ing on Network drives with large amounts of files. I see an improvement insofar that the network disconnect does not seem to happen anymore. However, I got a GUI hangup twice, which unfortunately also undid all the MD5 progress, since the database wasn't flushed...

EricB

Thank you, David! I'm going to test this the coming days. Is Ctrl-F5 on !MD5: search selection still the best way continuing indexing the properties in this case? Or should I just re-index the network drive? Just out of curiosity, did you implement some mechanism to mark a network drive "dirty&...

EricB

Hello void, Today I indeed followed the procedure as described, it was happily MD5-ing, I got away from the machine 10 minutes and after unlocking it, I saw that the indexing had stopped. Since the debug file has become quite large (even zipped it is 12 Mb), and I don't want to strip it, could I sen...

EricB

Everything sees the move as removed + added. The md5 property value is removed and then re-gathered. This is just a limitation with ReadDirectoryChanges. Too bad, but I understand the reason. I have been testing your settings my end and haven't run into the issue yet. Locking a work station appears...

EricB

I understand that sidecar files would lessen the load on Everything itself, but the beauty of internal checksums, once generated, is that they are maintained with every file operation, beit copy, move or delete. Less issues with lingering remains, so to say. At least, this is what I thought. But I ...

EricB

The first thing to catch my eye was "exclude_recall_on_data_access":1 (Tools -> Options -> Properties -> MD5 -> Exclude recall on data access) I wonder if these network files have the M attribute set? Please check if M is shown in the attributes column for these files. Checked that, but n...

EricB

Sent it, might end up in Junk, since I attached the info as a text file.

EricB

Hi void, I recommend using sidecar files to store md5 values. I understand that sidecar files would lessen the load on Everything itself, but the beauty of internal checksums, once generated, is that they are maintained with every file operation, beit copy, move or delete. Less issues with lingering...

EricB

Another observation: After the select all and ctrl-F5 the indexing for the single network drive was busy. From the corner of my eye (this machine is next to me on the desk, working on another one) I saw suddenly the GUI refreshing, getting rid of the selection and the indexing stopped. So could it b...

EricB

If you want to exclude (from Index rather then display) Well, I wouldn't exclude c: from indexing, but exclude it from the list of files not having an md5 yet. Those are selected and triggered into property indexing by ctrl-F5. How many is lots? About 320K files, which might be reduced quite some b...

EricB

I also found out on another machine that certain entries on a Google Drive volume are not MD5 property indexed:
extensions are gdoc gslides gsheet gjam gform lnk. I guess these are treated like hardlinks here and therefore skipped?

EricB

Hello void, Thanks for the prompt response. I've done as you described, and again saw indexing stopping intermittently. Some observations: A lot of files in Windows system seem to render the CreateFileW error. I excluded drive c: from the !md5 query for now. Not sure if that is one of the reasons fo...

EricB

Hi, I'm using Everything 1.5.0.1361a (x64) on Windows 10 22H2. I've several network drives on a Synology NAS attached, with lots of files. I know I've quite some duplicates there, so I defined an MD5 property so that information would be added to the index permanently (MD5 calculation on demand is q...

EricB

Maybe this tool can also serve as an inspiration: https://github.com/zzzprojects/findandreplace

I use it myself, and it is both fast and easy-to-use.

Regards, EricB

EricB

Here you go ... Thanks a ton! Menu in the attached version will use the same dark/light scheme as Windows. Requires Win10 at least (Win8 might work too) Briefly tested ... Well, seems to work fine here. And I know now how to create executables from AHK scripts. I even added some "white Q on bl...

EricB

If i bothers you a lot, i can write a custom version or provide instructions on how to change it yourself. No great bother, but it still attracts my attention. Would be nice to have a go at it myself, so some directions where to make changes would be awesome. I think I can handle compiling myself, ...

EricB

I really like Quickswitch, providing me more flexibility in Open/Save dialogs.

The only thing that I would stil wish for is a "dark mode" coloring style for the dialog. Is this something that is easy to achieve?

EricB

@golosovsky

In the past I've also seen lagging behaviour of Everything 1.4 in combination with Google Drive. After changing to Everything 1.5a this does not occur anymore.

Regards, EricB

EricB

If we are talking epubs, e.g. Calibre can generate small sidecar opf files with metadata, which may also contains a short description (summary) of the book. Those might come in handier than scanning book contents (most of the electronic formats are zip-derived anyway).

EricB

Hi Kazzy,

I've also folders -, # and .whatever on my system. Courtesy of NodeJS and modules. It seems the character precedence does not exactly follow the ascii standard. Maybe you could try and hack a harmless control code into a filename and see what happens...

Regards, Eric

EricB

If you do not have any exotic folder names, the _ (underscore) as a leading character would work (just tested in my setup). You would have to sort the results by name.

I see that folder names -, #, $, and .something take precedence, though, in that sequence.

EricB

@ NotNull, Your batch statement is way neater than my makeshift approach (I hardly ever do anything with batch) and is working right out of the box. The %* parameter trick is new to me, but noted for future reference. Thanks! I'll look into db_multi_user_filename setting and see if that works for me...

EricB

Void, thanks for considering this. I'm currently using es in a batch, but to get more parameters working I have to use

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es.exe -instance %COMPUTERNAME% %1 %2 %3 %4

If the instance (as expanded variable) is picked up from the ini it would be possible to use es.exe directly.

EricB

Hello, I'm using Everything (and es.exe) in a portable, shared folder (dropbox) over multiple computers. The everything instance is launched by a batch file which contains: start everything64.exe -config %COMPUTERNAME%.ini -instance %COMPUTERNAME% -db %COMPUTERNAME%.db This works very well, every ma...

EricB

Just curious... it is stated that existing hashfiles are left alone, but this is only valuable when the folder content is utter static. How about updates? And how about having it team up with Everything, using the DM of the hashfile to check if files have been altered after hash file generation?

EricB

I retried with 1298 and a set of 1000+ empty folders, not all on the same level, and got no hang-ups this time. Also I noticed that the Delete dialog did not remain pending at 99%, but immediately went to finish, after which Everything was immediately available again.

EricB

It was if I recall correctly 1296 or even before. Could easily have been 100-200 folders. I'll retry with 1298 and see if this reproducible.

EricB

In addition to Raccoon's remark: I've seen that a bulk delete of (empty) folders also takes a lot of time, seemingly making Everything hanging. The Recycle Bin progress dialog is shown during the delete, and it remains hanging quite some time at 99%. Seems that this is holding up Everything, maybe h...

EricB

How about only-unindexed: ?

EricB

Well, I know from experience that if the size difference is only so little, the difference in content of the zip would be negligible (for this specific case of ebook comparison). It would make it easier to inspect name duplicates; whenever there is such a small size difference, it is safe (in my exp...

EricB

I would second that! A duplicate subsearch for drilling down would be awesome. Another thought: often I'm looking for Name duplicates for ebooks (epub format, which is actually a zipfile). Sometimes only a single epub property is different (the .opf file in the epub, which contains the book descript...

EricB

If an internal clipboard is in the planning, maybe have a look at ClipX at https://bluemars.org/clipx/ . I've been using this software for years and I'm very satisfied with it, also because it has some useful plugins. I know it's more than 14 years old, but I've tried several alternatives which just...

EricB

Hi Gareth,

If the document type is determined by the extension this is certainly possible. Use ext:xls | ext:xlsx for Excel files, if needed add other extensions (for templates?). If you use this search often, consider to create a permanent filter.

Regards, EricB

EricB

For the dark mode 'voters' : workaround for the current version of Everything. (in case you missed it) I have this installed already for quite some time, much appreciated! However, 'native' dark theme which also takes menu bars, dialogs etc into account is preferred (like with TC 9.51, you know wha...

EricB

The few things that I can come up with:

- Dark mode
- Updated Everything SDK that supports named instances
- Indexing of some extra file properties, like bitrate, exif (has been mentioned before as tagging)

EricB

Thx for the update. Maybe David will release a newer SDK, hard to say.

EricB

Just stumbled upon this thread and installed the deskband toolbar. However, it does not show any results after typing. This might be because I use named instances for Everything. Just tested also without named instance and then I immediately get results. Can you confirm whether the toolbar uses the ...

EricB

Hi David, This can not be changed for just Everything. You can change the default verb for the entire system, however, you will need to change it for every single file type. I was already afraid it would be system wide, which is too much hassle, since it would only be of use within Everything. The t...

EricB

Hi, Something which is not obvious to me is whether I can change the default verb for the context menu within Everything. The default is now always Open, but I'd prefer "Open path" to be the default. The only way that occurs to me now is to change the command behind the "Open" ve...

EricB

Please try renaming your Everything icon to:
Everything-<instance name>.ico

Yes, that works! I tried something like this, and came close, but no cigar. I used Everything (instance name).ico, because that is how the tray icon shows its tooltip.

Thanks void!

Regards, EricB

EricB

Please make sure you extract the icon color of choice and rename it Everything.ico. Where did you place your Everything.ico ? Is Everything -> Tools -> Options -> General -> Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything checked? Is your Everything icon file named Everything.ico ? Do you have Expl...

EricB

Some time ago, I've followed the instructions in the link and didn't get it to work, the taskbar icon remained the default orange. I did not think much of it, but after an experiment today I realise that the coloured icon is actually working, but only for unnamed instances. And I'm always using name...

EricB

Seems to be working again, also when using https. Thx for looking into this!

Regards, EricB

EricB

I'm indeed running https Everywhere! It is not necessary to disable it completely, when you click on the "S" icon, you'll be presented with a rule for voidtools.com; if you just uncheck that, and reload the website without https:// prefix, it will work again. Still odd that the https will ...

EricB

Still the same, but only for Opera (my preferred browser). When trying to access the site using Edge or IE it works fine. Probably a cache/DNS/proxy/whatever problem?

Regards, EricB

EricB

Hi David,

When trying to check http://www.voidtools.com, I get an Oops, that page cannot be found, and pav.com.au homepage (probably the hoster?) is displayed.

Regards, EricB

EricB

Hello,

I'm a regular user of newsreader/newsfeeds. Would it be possible to publish the board forums also as RSS feeds? This would make it much easier to monitor the board, since my newsreader is open all the time anyway.

Regards, EricB

EricB

Hi David, Yes, I know about the -create-filelist option. The problem is that it is so slow over the network. Moreover, the NAS is also not state-of-the art and access is sometimes sluggish. If the NAS itself could generate filelists, that would exclude any network traffic (which seems to be be the m...

EricB

Hi, I own a Synology NAS which is indexed (as a set of folders) by Everything. Problem is that the indexing is painstakingly slow and after starting Everything it takes 15+ minutes or more before the indexing is ready. I figured that using a filelist would solve this, since it is plainly included wi...

EricB

Hi Void,

Thanx for the quick response. Looking forward to the stable 1.4 version!

Regards, EricB

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