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- Sat May 18, 2024 2:03 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Index This (version 2023-05-15)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 108999
- Tue May 14, 2024 12:33 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Index This (version 2023-05-15)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 108999
Re: Index This (version 2023-05-15)
I am glad to hear Everything is now indexing your Veracrypt drive. Void , thanks for mentioning Veracrypt in your post; caught my eye; my backup drives are encrypted with Veracrypt . @ NotNull , as always, thanks for a great piece of work. Question: It should be noted that “ … and load the results ...
- Mon May 06, 2024 1:35 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: How to find similar videos? Does properties help?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 735
Re: How to find similar videos? Does properties help?
However, if the video is edited by adding 3-second advertisement in front of original video content, the file size / video length both change, ... Hi Jerry. I suspect that there is little difference between the handling of audio files and video files. I mentioned some of the problems with audio fil...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 11:06 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Idea: Toggleable "MRU list" on top of all searches (most recently used)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 641
Re: Idea: Toggleable "MRU list" on top of all searches (most recently used)
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...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:17 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Regular expression: "Italian sentences"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 374
Re: Regular expression: "Italian sentences"
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 ...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:15 am
- Forum: Bug report
- Topic: some date modified searches not working
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1287
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 12:17 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How to find many names (partial match of different names) of music files on disk?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2327
Re: How to find many names (partial match of different names) of music files on disk?
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 ...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 10:12 am
- Forum: Bug report
- Topic: some date modified searches not working
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1287
Re: some date modified searches not working
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...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Everything always scans my 'Folders' on start
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5291
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:31 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Everything always scans my 'Folders' on start
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5291
Re: Everything always scans my 'Folders' on start
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...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:31 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: [Suggestion] Do not show Close button on tabs
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1437
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:44 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Word in an RTF file not found
- Replies: 12
- Views: 728
Re: Word in an RTF file not found
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...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:28 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Word in an RTF file not found
- Replies: 12
- Views: 728
Re: Word in an RTF file not found
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 ...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:47 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Double-key shortcuts
- Replies: 3
- Views: 903
Re: Double-key shortcuts
David you may find interest in this thread Cheers, Chrismeteorquake 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.
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:18 pm
- Forum: Development, plugins and third party software
- Topic: How is Everything so efficient?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 32030
Re: How is Everything so efficient?
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...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:58 am
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Word Counts
- Replies: 5
- Views: 283
Re: Word Counts
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...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Word Counts
- Replies: 5
- Views: 283
Word Counts
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...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: Development, plugins and third party software
- Topic: How is Everything so efficient?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 32030
Re: How is Everything so efficient?
... 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 ...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 12:19 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Find Duplicates
- Replies: 41
- Views: 17567
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 3:07 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Find Duplicates
- Replies: 41
- Views: 17567
Re: Find Duplicates
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 (...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 3:06 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Find Duplicates
- Replies: 41
- Views: 17567
Re: Find Duplicates
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...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 3:06 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Find Duplicates
- Replies: 41
- Views: 17567
Re: Find Duplicates
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,...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 3:05 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Find Duplicates
- Replies: 41
- Views: 17567
Re: Find Duplicates
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...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: remove object from result list
- Replies: 3
- Views: 189
Re: remove object from result list
Thank you NotNull. This did the trick (and taught me yet-another-menu-item!)
Cheers, Chris
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:09 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: remove object from result list
- Replies: 3
- Views: 189
remove object from result list
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...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:04 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Fault in my reasoning for ANDed search terms?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 187
Re: Fault in my reasoning for ANDed search terms?
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...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:04 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Fault in my reasoning for ANDed search terms?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 187
Fault in my reasoning for ANDed search terms?
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...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 10:41 am
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Tabs
- Replies: 48
- Views: 71465
Re: Tabs
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...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 4:02 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Searching eBooks for Content:
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1275
Searching eBooks for Content:
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...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 3:33 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Tabs
- Replies: 48
- Views: 71465
Re: Tabs
Brilliant! Thanks.
Cheers, Chris
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 3:27 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Does "Everything" have an "Undo" button?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3145
Re: Does "Everything" have an "Undo" button?
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:- ...
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 8:06 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Installing Everything on a 32-bit Vista System
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8917
Re: Installing Everything on a 32-bit Vista System
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
Cheers, Chris
- Fri Jul 21, 2023 11:34 am
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Search Modifiers
- Replies: 5
- Views: 883
Re: Search Modifiers
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 ...
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 10:22 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Opening DOT template files in MSWord from Everything
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4655
Re: Opening DOT template files in MSWord from Everything
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...
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 7:32 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Opening DOT template files in MSWord from Everything
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4655
Opening DOT template files in MSWord from Everything
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...
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 7:26 am
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Search Modifiers
- Replies: 5
- Views: 883
Re: Search Modifiers
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
- Wed Jul 12, 2023 10:54 am
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Find files that do not exist 🤔
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2152
Re: Find files that do not exist 🤔
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.therube wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2023 3:20 pm Search Functions
(/distinct:, should find it [in most browsers, I'd think])
Cheers, Chris
- Wed Jul 12, 2023 10:52 am
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: [Suggestion] column handling
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2381
Re: [Suggestion] column handling
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...
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 2:24 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Maximum number of search terms in the search field
- Replies: 5
- Views: 829
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 1:54 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Find files that do not exist 🤔
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2152
Re: Find files that do not exist 🤔
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...
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 1:50 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Find files that do not exist 🤔
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2152
Re: Find files that do not exist 🤔
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...
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 12:15 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: [Suggestion] column handling
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2381
Re: [Suggestion] column handling
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...
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 9:29 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Scheduled releases of Everything.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6688
Re: Scheduled releases of Everything.
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...
- Mon Jul 10, 2023 6:44 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Find files that do not exist 🤔
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2152
- Mon Jul 10, 2023 6:34 pm
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Find files that do not exist 🤔
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2152
Re: Find files that do not exist 🤔
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...
- Sat Jul 08, 2023 9:34 am
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Finding a specific file - best techniques?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 598
Re: Finding a specific file - best techniques?
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...
- Sat Jul 08, 2023 9:23 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Scheduled releases of Everything.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6688
Re: Scheduled releases of Everything.
... 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...
- Fri Jul 07, 2023 9:53 am
- Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
- Topic: Finding a specific file - best techniques?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 598
Finding a specific file - best techniques?
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....
- Thu Jul 06, 2023 1:14 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Possibility of Indexing File content
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4007
Re: Possibility of Indexing File content
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"...
- Mon Jul 03, 2023 4:31 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Scheduled releases of Everything.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6688
Re: Scheduled releases of Everything.
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...