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BigDan

thanks!

BigDan

none of those options were checked. the G drive issue got fixed a couple days ago. i think i did so by going to Options/Indexes/Folders and adding the G drive there. How do I filter out the dll files? I already did so under Tools/Options/Indexes/Exclude but they still show up. I'm trying to exclude ...

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I cant find anything on my G drive! Even when I type G: nothing shows up. It shows up in Windows Explorer. What do I do? In the process of trying to add it I must've made some mistakes and the settings seem to have gotten shuffled around a bit. Now I'm seeing a bunch of unnecessary files and folders...

BigDan

awesome thanks!

BigDan

Thanks! If the folder name is longer can I just type in "!\appsumo" ?

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I know how to filter out files in folders when I have the specific path. But I'd like to filter out all files when the folder has a certain name. In this case there's a folder called appsumo. I'd like to filter out all the search results *any time* appsumo is in the file path. How do I do this? Than...

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its working now, thanks! i rebuilt the index. that didnt fix it at first but i did nothing else and now it's good. perhaps restarting was part of the process

BigDan

Hello, there's a file I'm seeing in Windows Explorer that's not appearing when I search for it in Everything. The file's located here: C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\Vuze Downloads I checked my excluded folders and this isn't excluded. And it's not an issue with file type. What could be the issue?...

BigDan

void wrote: ↑Wed May 11, 2022 6:02 am Please try adding c:\users\administrator\appdata as an exclude filter:

In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.

Click the Exclude tab on the left.

Click Add Filter....

Type in the following filter:
c:\users\administrator\appdata

Click OK.

Click OK.

thanks a lot!

BigDan

I want to exclude the folder c:\users\administrator\appdata\

I can see how to navigate to the exclude folders section. But I cant navigate to the appdata folder under administrator, it doesnt show up. Is there a way to type in the path I want to exclude? I cant find that.

BigDan

OK yes my G drive is NTFS

In Indexes none of them show up as offline.

For the first part, why did we uncheck automatically remove offline volumes? Isnt it a good thing for files to not show up if they've been removed / are no longer connected?

BigDan

Hi, thanks for this! So I actually ended up solving the problem just before you posted, by going to Folders and adding the G: there. I've also followed the steps you gave just to make sure I did it all. When you said uncheck automatically remove offline volumes what does that do? If I unplug the ext...

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I unplugged my external drive for a couple weeks. Now I've plugged it back in. This is the G Drive. I can see the contents in Windows Explorer but when I type in G: in Everything it's blank. I do see the G drive mentioned under Options/Indexes/NTFS so that's not the issue.

Help please!

BigDan

thanks!

BigDan

I'm trying to move everything from one computer to an external hard drive. I think that's done but I'd like to test it by comparing one hard drive's contents vs another. I just did a search in Everything and the C: has 44K jpg's while the F: has 41K. I'm hoping the difference is irrelevant files but...

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thanks! you mentioned a distinction between NTFS and other. Do I need to figure out whether my externals are NTFS? Or can I just follow these steps regardless? I'll do so when home.

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I have a new computer with a fairly small SSD, so I now have 3 external drives connected to it. Not ideal, maybe I want to find a way around that. But that's a different matter. In the meantime - Everything is only indexing the SSD plus 2 of my 3 external drives. How do I get it to look at the third...

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Thanks so much!

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Pretty much in the subject line. New files on my C: (for example in my Downloads directory, or Desktop) aren't showing up in the Everything search bar. I created a few notepad files in other drives and they did.

Can anyone advise whats up?

BigDan

i'd like to exclude a folder or a parent folder. how do i do so?

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how would i say i want files that have only been modified after, say, June 1, 2020?

BigDan

I'm sorry I don't understand the RegEx stuff?

BigDan

you're awesome, thank you!

BigDan

oh wow!! i didn't expect that to work haha. thanks so much!

is there a simple way to exclude the subfolders within apple? that's not that important, just curious
is there also a way to see all the contents of apple, not just the resumes? again, not as imp.

BigDan

I'd like to search for my resume in a folder called 'Apple'. So that's easy enough, I'd just search "resume \apple\". However I've got a C and E drive and I don't want the E drive results to come up. But I also dont want to have to type in C:\users\bigdan\documents\desktop\career\apple\ ea...

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is there a way to search for just folders? when files are included i often get thousands of results.

BigDan

ovg wrote: ↑Mon Jun 01, 2020 1:45 pm try:
txt infolder:you_folder

I'm sorry I didn't follow. Do I replace the word "you" with something? And my folder is called Downloads, do I simply type that in or the whole path? Tried typing in downloads with the text you gave me, 0 results.

BigDan

I've tried these tips and they've worked well. Thanks again.
I'd like to now try restricting to files modified within the last week. Is there a way to do that? typing "dm:1week" hasn't worked.

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when I type in "txt \downloads" i get thousands of results. But a number of them are in various subdirectories. I can filter out one subdirectory by typing in "!\comics" or something like that but how do i filter out the contents of ALL subdirectories?

BigDan

Sorry I should've been more clear. I meant I don't want it in ANY of the subfolders not just that specific one.

BigDan

when i do a search for something such as pdf, how do i exclude folders from my search? i'd also like to know how to limit my search to a folder without looking at subfolders. for example if i'd like to search for pdfs in c:\users\me\downloads how do i make sure files in downloads\movies dont show up...

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PS - random question. In the Search dropdown there's various filters I can apply, Audio, Document etc. When I click Everything it gives me 471K objects. All the other selections give me less. But the last option is 'compaq' and when I click on that I get the exact same 471K objects (the exact same n...

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Fixed! It's funny, most of the options you mentioned were already what you suggested they should be. But while I was there I turned on, start at startup. Then exited settings, and problem solved. Not sure why that would change anything? But anyway, all good.

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I have a number of text files, titled "Hello 2017", "Hello 2018", "Hello 2019". Yesterday I opened Hello 2019 and saved it as Hello 2020 in the same directory, then modified it a bit. Now when I search for "Hello txt" I can see all of them except for Hello 202...

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if i want to search for all mp3's but want to remove all the results in the my music dir how do i do that?

i typed "mp3 !music" but that didn't work for some reason. i thought the ! button removes keywords. perhaps it's just from the file name not the dir name?

BigDan

Searching and sorting by date modified should be instant, please make sure Index date modified and fast date modified sort is enabled: In Everything , from the Tools menu, click Options . Click the Indexes tab on the left. Check Index date modified . Check Fast date modified sort . Click OK . Are y...

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Thanks! It's going through some kind of processing right now so will try this when it's done. Is there a way to open more than one instance of Everything? I've wanted to often but don't see how to make that happen. Also I'd like to add my E:\ to the drives being indexed but don't see the option. Whe...

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E:\ is an external drive. When I ran that dos command yes there were plenty of results.

I did the next two things, enabling everything service and run as admin. But how do I add E:\ to the NTFS drives?

BigDan

pretty much what the title says. is there a way to restrict the search to "last modified in 2020" ? when i search for "pdf" for example theres thousands of results and then sorting freezes the application for a while.

BigDan

Apparently my E drive isn't in the list of things being indexed, just C and H drives. I went to Tools/Options/Indexes/NTFS and saw C, H, and Q there - not sure what the Q is. But is this the list of everything being indexed? Then went to Indexes/Folders and over there I see E: - but although it's me...

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Sometimes I search for files such as txt files which have thousands of matches. In cases like this I like to sort by last modified because I'm usually searching for something I've used in the last few months. But when ordering by modified when there's a few thousand matches it really takes its time....

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Please try with the quotes after parent: eg: parent:"c:\users" so sorry just seeing this now somehow hahah i tried that. didn't work either parent:"c:\users\BigDan\desktop" xls Btw earlier I was given this command: \desk !*\desk*\*\* xls which worked pretty well. The issue with ...

BigDan

thanks for this

no, typing "parent:c:\users" without the quotes gives 0 results.

BigDan

thanks!

the parent function gives 0 hits, even after i replace the 'user' with my name. but the rest work fine, thank you!

what was supposed to happen with the parent function?

BigDan

If I want to search for all the text files on my desktop but not the subdirectories on the desktop how would I do that? To search just the desktop is easy enough. I'd just type "txt \desk" and without even finishing the word I'd be good. But yeah, that includes all the other stuff which I ...

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worked! thank you so much! now i just need to memorize that haha

BigDan

Sometimes I want to limit my searches to a folder. Let's say Desktop. In that case I've found adding " \Desktop" to a search can fix that. Let's say I want to find all the pdf's on my desktop, *but I dont want to include subfolders*. Is there a way to do this? My current search is giving m...

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One complication I've found in this program is that a number of results are from C:\users\myname\appdata and it's subfolders. Those links are usually irrelevant. Is there some way to omit those particular results? Also, unrelated but can someone explain to me what that subfolder actually it? Thanks!...

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Thanks!

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Thanks a lot! The first two worked for me. This one below didnt To search for files and folders, but not subfolders, use the parent: search function, for example, to search for files and folders in c:\windows, search for: parent:c:\windows Also, how would I search for, say, the word 'Package' within...

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