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ChrisGreaves

Older grouchy guy here, Hi there mawi. Even older AND grouchier guy here, worse than you can imagine after two weeks getting over "this bug that's going around". The term "MRU List" caught my attention because I developed such a beast sometime between 1997 (Word97/VBA) and my da...

ChrisGreaves

Is there a regular expression that can recognize at least some "Italian words" in file names Void's suggestion that you create a list of words in Italian might be achieved semi-automatically by taking your existing list of file names, titles etc, and then using Selenium to translate each ...

ChrisGreaves

void wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:45 am To set the date modified to now:

Thank You!

And it works on a Selection of multiple files, too.

Cheers, Chris

ChrisGreaves

Identical in what way? Both file size & content are exactly the same? I have thought about this for years. Off and On. Especially in terms of content. Along the way i have learned a bit about metadata and the "packets" of sound in an MP3 file. MUSIC is an auditory experience, and the ...

ChrisGreaves

Some date-modified searches aren't working on my desktop. Running 1.5.0.1371a. To me a fascinating use of the date-modified search is to enter simple "C:" without quotes, in the search bar, and then sort by date-modified descending. Untitled3.png The screen display updates every second or...

ChrisGreaves

void wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:31 pmIf you want full control, set the update to never and manually rescan from Index -> Rescan -> Select the desired folder (or click Rescan all)

Thanks Void.
Chris

ChrisGreaves

BTW: The upcoming Everything 1.5 will do these updates in the background. Hi NotNull. Just curious: When Everything runs updates in the background, then Everything is still running, right? We just can't easily see that it is running. Task manager or similar would let us see that Everythoing is runn...

ChrisGreaves

Nighted wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:36 pm Thanks but I've discovered the problem. I am an idiot.

Granted!

But what was the problem? How did you shoot yourself in the foot?
(signed) "Curious" of Bonavista

ChrisGreaves

Check the content Everything is reading with: addcolumn:a a:=$content: What would be really cool/neat, a preface to every other post in the Everything Forums, would be an in-context display, such as in the original IBM KWIC In my example posted in response to abr01, my column would display, say, 80...

ChrisGreaves

Where? Into the search field? Replacing a line in the filter? I have no idea where to past that command into. Append Void's string to your existing search string as shown below:- Untitled.png Don't do what I did: paste it into the search box as the only item. (I stopped it after the content of the ...

ChrisGreaves

meteorquake wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:36 pm As the number of key-assignable commands and filters increases there's definitely in my mind a need for double-key shortcuts.

David you may find interest in this thread Cheers, Chris

ChrisGreaves

I must have totally forgot about such limitations ... limitations? Limitations ?!!??? Good Grief what on earth are you talking about? :twisted: In The Good Old Days there were NO folders, just a large leather briefcase that could hold two boxes of punched cards (so about 4,000 cards) In The Good Ol...

ChrisGreaves

Thank you for the issue report ChrisGreaves, It's a bug with Office. The word count is also incorrect under Right click -> Properties -> Details -> Word Count. (Everything is using the same word count value) Please use the word count from Everything as a guide only. Thank you David. [pedant]Strictl...

ChrisGreaves

This is not a problem in need of a solution. I had cause to deliver a report on five articles Ive been commissioned to write. Everything Word2003 VBA 554 667 682 Diesel-Electrics 499 497 497 Riding on the Footplate from Southern Cross to Ghooli and Back 330 539 559 The Longest Wheat-Bin in the South...

ChrisGreaves

... it always felt like this is too good to be true and its developer must be cheating somehow ... I agree. I wrote myself a content-search of MSWord documents, and wrote it in Word97/VBA. Blew (back then) Windows File Explorer out of the water. I think that David, the developer is very bright and ...

ChrisGreaves

NotNull wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:22 pm ...the Advanced Options section was introduced 1n 1344a.

Thank you NotNull; I shall upgrade today and then rerun my searches.
Cheers, Chris

ChrisGreaves

Everything 1.5 adds support for finding unique or duplicates items in your results. ... To customize the line color: In Everything 1.5 , from the Tools menu, click Options . Click the Advanced tab on the left. To the right of Show settings containing , search for: dupe_line Select dupe_line_color (...

ChrisGreaves

Everything 1.5 adds support for finding unique or duplicates items in your results. ... To always show files/folders that share the same properties in different colors when finding duplicates/distinct/unique items: Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box: /dupe_group_colors=1 P...

ChrisGreaves

Everything 1.5 adds support for finding unique or duplicates items in your results. Everything can find files/folders with duplicated/unique names, sizes, dates and other properties. ... Double click the DUPE text in the status bar or change the search to clear the find-duplicates view. ... Indeed,...

ChrisGreaves

This is the first of five? replies to a single posting by Void. Everything 1.5 adds support for finding unique or duplicates items in your results. Everything can find files/folders with duplicated/unique names, sizes, dates and other properties. ... Group colors To show files/folders that share th...

ChrisGreaves

NotNull wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:27 pm"Right click > Temporarily Omit" is not always visible

Thank you NotNull. This did the trick (and taught me yet-another-menu-item!)
Cheers, Chris

ChrisGreaves

A quick Advanced Search did not turn up any posts, let alone topics, which advise "how to remove an object from a result list on a temporary basis. FindDuplicates_15.png I am preparing a PrtScr image to illustrate a point. In this example I do not need, nor do I want, that MSWord temporary file...

ChrisGreaves

Your reasoning is largely correct. One minor detail: How I adore this approach! Your are almost right except ... Everything will search for matches in the filename (without path), unless it is told to look in the path too. ... Enable Match Path (Menu => Search => Match Path). ... This is how I thou...

ChrisGreaves

T:\Greaves\Training\Everything\Tutorial\Keyboard Shortcuts.doc Above is the drive, path, name, and extent of an MSWord document on my encrypted drive. The file exists; I have just opened it in MSWord2003. Note the space within the Name portion of the file’s full name. I was trying to locate the fil...

ChrisGreaves

I will try to keep Everything tabs similar to web browsers and other programs. My impression in Windows and in MS Office applications and Firefox browser is that Alt+Tab rotates in one direction through open tasks (I might call it "clockwise") and that adding a Shift key Shifts into rever...

ChrisGreaves

I am working towards searching for text in eBooks. For my sins I am back to running Win7 but am at Version 1.5.0.1360a (x64) Caution: My knowledge of eBooks is extremely limited; I am writing an essay on why I don’t like eBooks, but wanted to add examples from Everything. Of all the types listed, on...

ChrisGreaves

void wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 4:28 am Everything 1.5.0.1357a adds tabs.

Brilliant! Thanks.

Cheers, Chris

ChrisGreaves

If you are using Everything 1.4, you can start Windows Explorer and execute the Undo from there. Academic point only : From a philosophical point of view anything that any computer program has "done", that program can "undo". This is strictly not true for a variety of reasons:- ...

ChrisGreaves

FWIW I have (5 minutes ago!) installed "Everything-1.5.0.1354a.x86.zip" on a friend's HP laptop Windows Vista 32 bit and have run it succesfully.
Cheers, Chris

ChrisGreaves

So, if you are kind enough to send me a copy, would you please send that to [quoted from my email response] =====> JHS, please find attached a MSWord2003 document of 33 pages. This document is a draft document, and represents the accumulation of content over the past four or five months. It is one ...

ChrisGreaves

Sorry, but this is the most useful function in Word. How often do you edit a template ? The only way from Everything would be using a command line switch for Word but I don't see one. So you have to program it using VBA or what ever. Horst, you have every right to be sorry. You have judged my quest...

ChrisGreaves

I am currently running 1.5.0.1350a and can locate ext:doT files with ease. However: running them causes MSWord2003 to open a new document based on the template. This has been MSPolicy since I was in kindergarten. And following established standards is agreeable. However2: I have never liked this sta...

ChrisGreaves

jhsgalaxy wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2023 8:13 pm... some examples of what such search terms are meant to produce...

Hi jhsgalaxy.
I am in the process of producing a User Tutorial laden with practical examples for Everything 1.5a.
The section "Search Modifers is at 33 pages right now.
Please PM me if you would like a copy.
Cheers, Chris

ChrisGreaves

therube wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2023 3:20 pm Search Functions
(/distinct:, should find it [in most browsers, I'd think])

Thanks therube. I don't know how I missed it in my earlier search. It doesn't get much of a mention in Forum Posts.
Cheers, Chris

ChrisGreaves

Nice idea! Or maybe something like the "Reopen closed tab" in browsers. Or a Recent Columns sub-contextmenu (or is it context sub-menu?). I am coming around to the idea that almost anything that can be done with a computing system ought to be undoable by the same system. This, as a genera...

ChrisGreaves

David.P wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2023 7:32 am Of course, how could it have been any different -- with the best software in the world

"in the world" ??!!!????

Cheers, Chris

ChrisGreaves

I have a list of 40 file names, and I would like to find out which of them do not exist on my hard drive. Hello david. I confess that I was intrigued by the subject line. "What" I thought "is the point of looking for something that isn't there?" Now I can see that your statement...

ChrisGreaves

This will save your preference in ES.ini in the ES.exe folder: CommandLine_20.png Got it!! Thank you NotNull. After I changed the "instance" settings I reran my simple tests (an abbreviated command-line statement) and then reran your example from above. {{idiot alert}} Strangely the resul...

ChrisGreaves

And just a FYI: I typically remove no longer needed columns by clicking the scrollwheel on its column header. Works fast and intuitive. However, I just found out that clicking the scrollwheel on the column divider also removes said column. FYFI: I rarely use the scroll wheel. I tried "clicking...

ChrisGreaves

I think both ChrisGreaves and I are looking for ways to make your life a bit easier. That was the intention of my post anyway. Agreed! But that's why I was asking for a discussion. I am in no position to advise. Sideline: I suspect too that a shorter-periodic release would give you a satisfying mil...

ChrisGreaves

therube wrote: ↑Tue Jul 04, 2023 3:09 pm distinct:name
or
unique:name

Hi therube.
I have been searching the wiki for these two search terms and cannot find them.
Please can you supply a link to some documentation?
Thanks, Chris

ChrisGreaves

Subtitles for this command: For each pattern (=line) in strings.txt, let es.exe search for that that pattern and report the number of results. If the number of results is zero, show the pattern on the screen. NotNull, thanks for the subtle subtitles. Sad to relate they have not gotten me over the h...

ChrisGreaves

Please try the following search:exact:es.exe CommandLine_16.png Thank you Void. For this particular exercise the following search strings are synonymous (in terms of the Result List that they produce) exact:es.exe ext:exe wholeword:es.exe c: ext:exe wholeword:es.exe ext:exe wholeword:es Excepting f...

ChrisGreaves

... to show that I am still working on Everything. Thanks Void. I rather suspect that by now everyone on the planet Gsdfghjkl knows how much effort you put into this program. My intensely private view is that I wish you would slow down so that I can catch up :D There's a few more things that I have...

ChrisGreaves

I wanted to make sure that I had a copy of ES.EXE, and that it was on an appropriate path for execution (Command-line stuff). Now the name "es.exe" is somewhat short, and chances are strong that the two-letter string "es" appears in a great many executable filenames on my system....

ChrisGreaves

Content indexing will be available in Everything 1.5 I'm interested! :geek: Will this feature include the possibility of harvesting every word (as defined by Everything) in text form by such documents? In my case I regularly examine every MSWord document, extract the text, and "do things"...

ChrisGreaves

1.4 is a Release. 1.5 is not. Hello therube. I think that that echoes my point, that "1.5" has not been released as a stable version. Of course, as long as release is delayed until all the new (requested) features are coded means that, with Everything, 1.5 can never be released, right? Ch...

ChrisGreaves

But to be honest, 1.5 now already contains so many nice new features, I would probably wrap it up and call the current state 1.5. So maybe it is better not to listen to me :D You gonna change your moniker to "Shrinkin' Violet?" :twisted: :twisted: Not Null, anyone who makes sense - or eve...

ChrisGreaves

I also do not understand why a sole developer of this program is splitting his valuable time between the 1.4 and 1.5 version, when that latter one has been working quite nicely for a long time now. And, considering how its GUI was reworked, why it should not be labeled 2.0 instead of 1.5 Hi. I was ...

ChrisGreaves

I would like to discuss the possibility of releasing Everything on a shorter period than we have right now. This is not a criticism of Everything; I am now of the conclusion that Everything is evolving faster than I can learn its power. The current alpha version is two years older than the current ...

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