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Currently I use nop:MYTITLE........................... mysearchstring to give an individual tab title (also window title when just 1 tab), however the idea of individual tab labels was being considered. There is though a general titling formula that was recently made available. General tab titling f...

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Would there be any way to also have per tab titling, so that different tabs have different formulae? Most of my tab usage would benefit from this since my tabs have specific roles. I'm thinking you could enter it using a command/search switch tab_title_format ('tab' in the singular) and it would be ...

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Cheers - look forward to this evolving forward! If I were to suggest the next step in this from my own usage needs, it would be to be able to save as a user name and then reload, and commandline switch to load session. I'm not sure if this should be done as separate files (which are sharable/copyabl...

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Currently this replaces the active tab. I suspect in most cases it would be wanted to open as a new tab unless the active tab is blank. It may be that could be the default and/or some key modifiers could be recognised (default new tab with shift-open current tab, default current tab with ctrl-open n...

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So if I understand correctly this would be the process where I'm in an application dialog and nowhere near the file tree I want to be at, so I do - Ctrl-Alt-X (shows Everything window) type what I need arrow-down (selects the result, or can just click it) Ctrl-Shift-C (copies result) Alt-Tab (back t...

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The right topic but presumably I misunderstand it which is why I was hoping for an outline of the usage so I could see what is being thought of

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If it's not an issue you can also put a keyword in the filenames and afterward search for the keyword (have the keyword in the clipboard). If there are many visible in the results you can ctrl-click them all then rename them in bulk to add the keyword. I would though be quite keen in having availabl...

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It sounds interesting but perhaps someone could outline the logic of the case usage of this for me so I understand it. I know I sometimes am typing in a box in another application and want to see it in everything, and a few keystrokes do that (ctrl-a (selects all) ctrl-c (copies) shift-alt-x (brings...

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You can also just drag the folder into the free space of the tab bar and it will open it as a new tab. That finds the folder by filling the search bar. However if you have a tab open for such things you can drag the folder over the tab so it focuses and then drop the folder on the title "Folder...

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A side suggestion here, when you right-click in the preview box you could have a "Search for content" menu item analogous to when you click a column heading, which would place a

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David

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* I think as it currently stands File - "Copy Property" is better named "Copy Column Data" * Some kind of multi-column copier? I think basic is better than none. For example it could have an extra sub entry "Copy Columns 1-n" so one could rearrange the columns and choos...

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Can I check here how complex the filters can be - is it just on the name, or could you, for example, colour videos whose size or frame rate is greater than a certain value, or ones that are younger or older than a certain date? size conditions would certainly be handy for me for colouring small vers...

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I have CTRL+ALT+ENTER (global) set to clear the search box. When in the Folder bar it doesn't work but toggles the selected folder expansion on/off, which can also be done anyway with unmodified Enter. It would be good to remove the override there :) I suppose the Folder Bar action may be hard-coded...

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Cheers, that's very helpful! Found a few with it adjusted :) I'm away from my backups and there was a rapid sequence of power fluctuations, a reboot and another set that wrecked the OS and impacted my documents partitions. When I get back I'll MD5 all the files on these drives and the backups and sp...

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Could someone suggest the most efficient way to search within files for binary content? basically a handy way to test for corruption of non-binary files, as often null or other characters will be written - any unexpected character below ascii 32 is ideal to trigger it (so not \r \n \t). I tried some...

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For me, the more varied colour options the better - humans tend to be very colour-orientated. I think a column stylisation setter could be added to the Add Columns type dialog (also available with Edit from Organise Columns). Presumably Everything could just save the resulting non-defaults to an opt...

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Minor improvement. For the keyboard shortcuts, the Custom Open command 1... n could state the command beside it so that it's more explanatory. I think these will generally be of the form $exec("program" ...) and in that instance could just state the filename of the program (not full path, ...

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I thought I would mention a little trick. Suppose your ideal for a macro is 's' (s:) but s is already taken, then you might be inclined to use a second letter, such as 'sz' (for size). In my experience the next best after a single letter is in fact the letter doubled, because your finger is already ...

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Sorry I didn't spot those extra questions. It's because Everything does so much more than search, but is a whole thing of many useful features. As an extremely simple example, I can have certain files come out different colours based on a formula. So in my photos when a photo transitions more than 1...

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Many thanks! Open (Folders) => $exploreineverything("%1") worked well, but I left "Open Path" as it was, so that it can be used to open the folder in Explorer if ever needed. From what I looked at of Total Commander the other day, it seemed to me a huge step backward from using E...

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I agree... it's very rare I want to open a folder in explorer, if I do that can be done with a right-click, Open So it would be a huge productivity assist with the folder bar so settled in for people, if double-clicking a folder navigated to it in Everything, and as the thread suggests, this could b...

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I have a VBS script that runs through all my djvu & pdf files and where a .txt version is lacking it creates one, much smaller than the original, this allows me to use normal text-searching tools. If anyone needs it I attach it below, the exe paths will need adjusting (and the exes present), the...

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I've just installed Total Commander and looked through the menus and options but it looks a huge step backwards from how I'm using Everything. I'll look at the Opus one later though...

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Everything does many things other file managers can't or do with difficulty, though I've not looked at them in a good while. d

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I think what might help is a second Folder Bar. When wishing to explore an item you could drag it to the titlebar of either or have two shortcut keys, one to explore in folder bar 1, another to explore in folder bar 2, this would help when working with two folders. Probably also a shortcut-action to...

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I think one of the advantages of assignable commands for this is that in due course if you had a command to highlight the tab colour 1 or colour 2 (customisable, e.g. red, blue), you could then say assign tab:double-click for red (toggle), tab:alt-double-click for blue (toggle) etc
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Some ideas - 1. Be able to multi-select tabs using shift/ctrl in the usual way, then drag them to a new position, or close them all by clicking an x on one of them or executing the close-tab command (unless you want a separate close-tabs command for people who want to distinguish) 2. My mouse has a ...

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Aha I see what you're saying - I'll give that a try. I wonder if the Options - Keyboard should have a link at the bottom "How to assign multiple commands to a key" and take you to a webpage that explains it, as you get so used to assigning keys there, the other method you mention can slip ...

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I'm thinking of GUI commands which I'm not currently aware are available in bookmarks - for example how would one perform 'File | Explore in Everything' and 'Search Edit | Clear' from a bookmark? maybe there is a way...

Cheers! David

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Currently a keyboard shortcut can only be assigned to a single command. It would be useful to be able to assign to a sequence of commands. An example of use would be you search for an item and then you want to Ctrl-Enter to locate it in the Folder Bar AND clear the search bar that was used to find i...

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The javascript was an example for anyone interested of a simple methodology I had used.

Someone (such as void) would need to do something that will work for Everything...

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It happened again (ver 1370a) so I've sent a minidump.
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Fuzzy searches don't necessarily represent how humans would do things. For example, you could scan the two-letter sequences of your search phrase, e.g. "Hello World" you would have He el ll lo "o " " W" Wo or rl ld score a point for each that exists in the target, and d...

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The problem I always face is that most of the entries on a right-click are junk I'll never or rarely use, inherited from Explorer. It always makes right-clicks a painful experience. I seem to remember you said it was a bit out of your control in that you provided extra entries and explorer did the r...

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I had a situation very recently on 1369a (I'm now on 1370a) where the Search Bar stopped working. You could type in it, but the results did not alter. Quitting Everything and relaunching fixed it. Not much to go on, just for info to keep in mind when doing the coding in that vicinity. I'll let you k...

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I've generally thought of it as being a file manager already - I already do everything in it, except very occasional tasks.
What sort of tasks were you thinking of in particular?

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This link may also help - https://tsev.dev/posts/2023-11-10-should-avif-be-the-dominant-image-format/ My general impression is that when quality settings are high (to create faithful copies) there's not a huge amount to gain, but when quality settings are low there is more. I did a while back play a...

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There's a particular situation that comes up a lot where I toggle Everything (by double-clicking the titlebar) between maximised (sorting files out) where I want the folder bar and any preview pane to be showing, and normalised (small window, dragging items one by one into another application) where...

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I have Ctrl-S itself currently linked to the Advanced Sort. The availability of double-keys naturally would be to make everything silent and more intuitive, as I do find myself advanced popups are less often used than they might. Conceptually the filter boxes work well with the shortcut route they p...

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As the number of key-assignable commands and filters increases there's definitely in my mind a need for double-key shortcuts. So then things can be much more intuitive, using letters that match the concept. For example (to illustrate the principle) people might have Ctrl-S N to sort by name, Ctrl-S ...

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You'll need to clarify what you intend by "maintaining their quality" If you mean EXACTLY the same then they'll be best left as they are. If you don't mind loss to the picture that's not noticed by humans then it will depend 1. how quickly you want to compress them all, 2. how quickly you ...

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Many thanks - that works, and is intuitive. * There is no statusbar description when you mouse over it, which would be a good opportunity to add and mention in it the modifiers. (Also no status for the "Options..." menu item) I would note one thing though - it requires the folder bar to be...

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That's great, and particularly the new folder being temporarily focussed as that's one of the most important things to have tackled! I've just tried that latter and the implementation seems to work well!
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Aside from the points mentioned, my impression is that a lot of slowness and bloat in the programming world comes from using 3rd-party libraries and frameworks particularly as regards speed for tasks that are repeated rapidly. In most cases not only is coding such things specifically going to lead t...

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Currently if you right-click the 'Folders' title of the Folder Bar you can Explore Folder from Clipboard However that only operates on the active tab. It's quite useful to be able to create a new tab explored from the clipboard. * I think if you right-click the + tab (new tab) there should be an opt...

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If you are in the folder bar and you press a letter, it jumps to the folder of that letter. But only if your key press is lower case - so if caps lock is on or shift is pressed with capslock off then it fails. I suspect the search is lowercasing the folders for case insensitivity but not lowercasing...

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As you can see from this screenshot at the bottom of the list, a lot of the files are missing modified dates and sizes. I was convinced all my recent work had vanished because I had sorted on modified with latest at the top and they weren't there! I think this will be because the drive in question w...

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I do it for accounting reports, putting the pence as superscript and fainter

I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one though... for computer files since we tend to think more in KB and MB, in byte mode the bytes are analogous to the pennies - d

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I'm a great fan of simple visual assistances. When sizes are showing as bytes it would be good if the thousand part were slightly dimmed, so that the eye interprets the figures more naturally especially when in the gigabyte range. Perhaps an option to choose a colour in the advanced options (default...

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OK so this would be my idea if it's not already there, a general substring extractor based on string markers. If I look at my filenames they often contain markers with information. For example this is a file saved from iNaturalist - Limodorum abortivum - OBS 55734247 - USR frank375 - NME Frank Walth...

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