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by echo21
Mon Feb 11, 2019 3:39 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: everything to store file GUIDs in its database
Replies: 6
Views: 11317

Re: everything to store file GUIDs in its database

NotNull wrote: Mon Feb 11, 2019 3:34 pm It is unique for every file on disk. But it can have multiple 'aliases'. Those are called hardlinks. Your Windows folder is full of those.
Makes sense to me now. Thanks for clarification!
by echo21
Sun Feb 10, 2019 10:48 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: everything to store file GUIDs in its database
Replies: 6
Views: 11317

Re: everything to store file GUIDs in its database

Hi @void, thank you very much for your reply! And of cause for making the world better by providing everything! Keep in mind the frn: function in Everything 1.4. only shows the first hit. The next major version of Everything will show all hits. Oops, I am confused, how can 1 FRN reference more than ...
by echo21
Sat Feb 09, 2019 5:59 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: everything to store file GUIDs in its database
Replies: 6
Views: 11317

Re: everything to store file GUIDs in its database

Hi @NotNull , thanks a lot for your reply (I haven't found a "thank you" button to click in this forum so far)! Everything already does so (as far as I know). The hierarchy (= folder structure) is based on that: file A has parent B and B has parent C, etc. Those "GUID's" are used...
by echo21
Sat Feb 09, 2019 3:00 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: everything to store file GUIDs in its database
Replies: 6
Views: 11317

everything to store file GUIDs in its database

I think conventional hierachical file systems as NTFS work with a file referencing concept that is sub-optimal by design: every file can be referenced only by its path name. So if you make links (e.g. in a word document, a local html file, an *.lnk file on your disk, etc. ) to a NTFS file there is a...