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koolestani

I was interested in creating a File List to refer to as a catalog in lieu of another software (called WinCatalog, I grew tired of it's clunky interface and poor search results). So, before diving in, I looked up the process that needs to be followed to create one, and more importantly how to update ...

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No worries!
Yeah it's probably safer to have it off by default. Can't wait!

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Dragging an item from name column should drop that item itself. Dragging same item from path column should drop the folder containing that item. I observed that sometimes I have to open the item itself in an app, that's no problem, I simply drag and drop the item into the app and done. But other tim...

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Thanks for the answers. It seems I should have dug a little deeper before asking this question, as it was dead simple lol.

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Pretty much what the title says. Pretty please!

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Ok, some of it did go over my head. Your answer works for what I wanted to do, so there's that. I guess I'm still trying to imagine a venn diagram of the search results of unique: and distinct: and since I thought their results should be mutually exclusive, I thought the two circles won't intersect ...

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Hmm, that works. But is there a reason why it only works in that particular order, I tried

distinct:name dupe:name

and that doesn't work at all.
Thanks for getting me out of yet another jam.

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There you go! Timestamp: 1:31:13

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Can we not use multiple words separated by space along with child: and descendant:? I tried with double quotes but it didn't work.

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So I seem to be facing an odd problem, the results of distinct:name and unique:name should be mutually exclusive, correct? Distinct should find files that have duplicates and list the first duplicate in the results. Unique should find files that don't have any duplicate. I can see some files that ha...

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This isn't what I was expecting. It's like making it relative but not before using an absolute path to do that which defeats the original intent. Is there perhaps a way to run a search in the folder containing the shortcut file itself using some meta tag or path information of the shortcut. I'm basi...

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Is there a way to use relative path with respect to where the shortcut is located and the location for which the search needs to be performed?
In my case the search needs to be performed in a directory which is one level up, relative to the location of the shortcut file.

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Ooof, this turned out to be yet another layer of syntax.
I see the documentation you shared in the previous reply isn't exhaustive then. Can it be updated to include every possible option?
Thanks for the quick save!

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Thanks
Can this be detailed in further by defining the view of the results as Extra Large Icons and Document filter to be applied?

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Hello I was wondering if I can create a file which, upon running, opens/searches a predefined query, with various settings turned on/off as intended. Example "D:\Folder" endwith: file.txt [WHOLE WORD ON ] [PATH OFF ] Just to be clear, only the query is predefined, the results this query yi...

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Congratulations David! Search Everything was shown in the movie Missing (2023). I'm not sure if that's something you were informed about, but just in case you weren't well, here goes. Enter Leonardo pointing his finger at the TV meme.

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Thanks David, I wasn't aware of the Alt+Wheel trick, it's quite handy. Always learning something new here!

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What the title says.
Basically the way it does with Filters when you have View > Filters Bar turned on.
Right now with Mouseover the Search text field, scroll wheel just scrolls through the search results, and there is plenty of screen real estate to scroll through them anyway.

koolestani

This is perfect. Thank you so much.

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Thanks for the reply
But this doesn't yield the desired result.

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What query would search a folder that contains File.A and subfolders that contain File.B, File.C (could either be the same subfolder that contains both File.B and File.C OR they can be in different subfolders). Right now I'm using child:File.A child:File.B child:File.C This works like a charm when a...

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Once again David, you have done it! This works perfectly. Thank you.

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Windows shell style Context Menu for the Scroll Bar in search results.

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Currently I make do with this workflow

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Select the entire result listing > Right Click > Copy Name to Clipboard > Paste in Excel > Data > Remove Duplicates

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Hi, Is there a way to get a list of file names in a given folder fetched in a manner such that the names that are being repeated appear only once (no matter how many times they are actually repeated)? AAAA.txt AAAA.txt AAAA.txt B.txt B.txt CCC.txt CCC.txt CCC.txt CCC.txt D.txt The result should disp...

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What the title says.

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Ah I see, that's a neat trick. I noticed the difference between path-part and match path. path-part matches files/folders that do not contain the keyword in their name and their locations' path does contain the keyword. files/folders whose names BEGINS with the keyword and their locations' path does...

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I think I love you David. Thanks so much for this.

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Greetings I'm trying to find the folder that contains both Person.A Location.C I could open two search windows and searched individually for Person.A and take a look at the folders that contain this file. And done the same for Location.C and take a look at the folders that contain this file. Manuall...

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Is this path-part thing only available in version 1.5 because it doesn't seem to work at all for me.

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Using a path separator (\) in your search will match the full path and filename. (same as enabling match path) Why? Are you expecting \windows to match folders only starting with windows? What would you like \windows to match? I am expecting it to match files and folders starting with windows (and ...

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Hey, sorry for the late reply This seems both counterintuitive and asymmetrical, notepad.exe should not show up until Match Path condition is applied. So a user searches for "keyword", and gets all the folders that contain "keyword" and files that contain "keyword" and ...

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Hey, so the \<text> and <text>\ method never shows folders in the result. I believe this is a mistake (is it not?).

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I meant if I enter \work as the query, only files are listed in the result, no folders.
And if you add folder: to that, well then the result is just empty (because it did not show folders in the previous query)
Sorry if I caused some confusion.

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Hey Thanks, this worked! (I feel so dumb, I put a space between the colon and the <text>) folder:startwith:work The other method however still doesn't work folder:\work Like I said it shows only the files inside the folder ending with that text. Restricting the result to show only folders means no h...

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Hey there! I am trying to search for folders that end with a particular text, I understand there is some syntax available for this at https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/searching/ Use \ to search for partial paths, for example, to find files and folders in a folder ending with documents , ...

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Thanks for the reply, looking forward to the suggestions being incorporated in the update.

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Hi I am facing an issue when searching for files that have partly same names. Example: aaa .nameA.cbr aaa .nameB.cbr bbb .nameC.cbr bbb .nameD.cbr I was expecting namepartdupe: to show me these 4 files in the results, since they do share a part of the filename. In this example i found dupe: and name...

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Can i make the path column display relative path only when searching within a specified directory. I ask because when I have restricted the search location, seeing the full path beside every result seems unnecessary. Consider this example C:\Program Files\ contains a folder WindowsPowerShell , which...

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Hi Is the ability to sort multiple columns there in everything? An example for the same https://steamdb.info/sales/ You can see the message "Hold shift to sort multiple columns" and it works beautifully, I have actually came across situations where its needed in search everything. If you t...

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I forgot about the efu thing, that's good thinking.
Thanks again

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i just tried your suggestion and it actually serves me pretty well. It took me a while to realize how it really works, the specified location actually helps to a great extent, it restricts everything to search for identical names from that location this is what i understood it matches filenames from...

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Man I'm really filled up with a lot of ideas that I'm confident will improve search everything. I haven't even pondered over them in extreme detail, but i know that those ideas are currently missing and people other than me must be wanting them too. Please let me know the appropriate communication r...

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Hi As the subject says I'd like to find files with the exact filename in a specified location. Example 1 : If a folder has videos with subtitles that have same name as the video, the results will show both the .mkv and .srt files. Example 2 : If a folder has videos with subtitles and posters with sa...

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Thanks for confirming.

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The native way of achieving this (using /hotkey_explorer_path_search=1) by assigning a hotkey within everything's settings will take control globally, i.e in my case Ctrl+F is overridden everywhere (i found out when i tried searching for some text in Chrome and used the shortcut). So is it safe to a...

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pressing an Everything hotkey that shows an Everything search window from a Windows Explorer window ok, so this was not super clear on what exactly the hotkey is or where you can set one. For anyone else who didn't know, the hotkey being referred to can be created under: Tools>Options>General>Keybo...

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Thank you for the quick response. Its good to hear that. Any tentative month or quarter for such an update? Also is there a way to quickly restrict the search to just the local volumes OR just the network shares, I know a list of all indexes with checkbox can once again solve this issue. I'd like to...

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Lets say I have 8 volumes in total, 2 internal and 6 network shares I have these network shares indexed. What I really need in this case to get meaningful results is to be able to narrow down the volumes from which search results will be displayed. There are two ways I can use to search: Start Every...

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