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Michi

Oh! Silly me!

Did not see the obvious! I tried to define my search commands in the search bar and fiddle around with the filters

And a simple look into bookmarks editor would have revealed the simplest solution ever.

Thanks void!

Michi

Thanks again! Let's sum up a little bit: !FileHistory\ temp\ | tmp\ | ext:tmp;temp works, if I've pre-selected the filter Everything : I see all expected files. If I pre-select the filter Documents , I get only those files that are inside any of those paths, e.g. c:\temp. That leads to my final ques...

Michi

Thanks for your prompt reply! When using /filter Video ET visually selects the filter "Video" in this case and the result is empty! This, too, happens with /filter Everything no results at all. However, when manually selecting the filter Everything from the filter list, I get expected resu...

Michi

So I did made some progress: !FileHistory\ regex:path:(temp|tmp)\\ | ext:tmp;temp finds all folders and subfolders that end with temp or tmp and their files inside, which is expected and desired, or all files that have the extensions tmp or temp, no matter of their path. Show stopper still is that w...

Michi

Hi! I'm trying to search for temporary files in the index. Temporary files are defined, to my needs, by files that end with .tmp or .temp or all of those files that can be found in folders ending with ./temp or ./tmp. Additionally, I want to switch the filter to "Everything", so I tried th...

Michi

So a function that shows the file age with some or one parameter to format the content

Michi

Cool, thanks!

Michi

Hah, that would help me either for my latest request, to exclude size of zero byte length if a previous bookmark is already active.

Michi

Works with latest alpha 1.5.0.1354a.
Thanks!

Michi

As always: THANKS!

Michi

A big thanks for this neat sidebar!

Maybe a bug that found its way into:
All of the folders are doubled: first one is always empty and the second one contains the bookmarks.

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Michi

Thanks! That's one solution that came into my mind before. I dropped the idea, because activating a filter does deactivate my default filter e.g. "Documents". Or with other words: If I would like to find documents and still hide files with zero bytes, I've to define a new filter that combi...

Michi

Hi! I can exclude files of zero bytes from being indexed. However, I don't want them to be excluded from the index permanently. OTH, I would like to exclude those zero length files from any search result, without adding an appropriate expression to each search command. So I thought about using resul...

Michi

Ah thanks for this explanation - makes sense now

Michi

Question: I've executed bookmarks-sidebar: however the newly added sidebar is empty and a search for bookmarks does not show anything.

Did I miss the obvious?

Michi

Yes, silly me, just updated to build 1347a and it's there! Thanks!

Michi

Just wanted to give it a try, however, my ET 1.5 (1.5.0.1342a) does not show an Advanced Tab on the left of the options windows. I do have a tree on the left with various sections, e.g. "General", "UI", "Home" ... but unfortunately no advanced label anywhere. So, where ...

Michi

Great! Thanks for this gem!

I miss a like button in this forum

Michi

The PDF-XChange Editor (Editor Plus) includes a working PDF property handler. Yes, see: Sorry for late reply. Windows Explorer is indeed not able to modify PDF tags. I'm using PDF-Xchange Editor Pro for this task. In my special case from above, not of much help, because those PDF files are write pr...

Michi

@Michi, how are you tagging PDFs? I wasn’t aware Windows could do that. Sorry for late reply. Windows Explorer is indeed not able to modify PDF tags. I'm using PDF-Xchange Editor Pro for this task. OTH those ODF files I'm having trouble with to be properly indexed are created by a German IT magazin...

Michi

OK, I gave it a try and sent via e-mail.
So far it did not return yet

Did you receive it?

Michi

Hi and thanks for your answer!

Is it OK for you if I upload the PDFs to a file share or to my one-drive because of it's size of about 21MB?
Or should I try sending anyway?

Michael

Michi

Hi! Running ET 1.5.0.1340a (x64) I see some wrongs PDF-tags in the result list. Please see the following screenshots. As you might see, the PDF tag has the characters Ö and Ü whereas the column shows the Ö with two boxes and the Ü is missing completely. There is also a © characters somewhere in the ...

Michi

Shouldn't you include the preprocessor expression in brackets? Did not use such expressions so far, though.

Like

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[upper:"abc 123"]

Michi

Ah, OK thanks for those details!

Michi

@zonetrooperex

May I assume that those bookmarks are fitted specifically to you Windows installation?

I see many bookmarks that do exclude folders named FileHistory or similar. I guess I can safely remove those folder names or adapt them to my needs, correct?

Michi

I would second this. A docker container, Linux based, would run fine on my Synology NAS, I bet

Michi

So, any chance that those settings will find their way into the preferences of ET sometime, without tinkering in the Registry?
Would be much easier for some of us

Michi

Thank you very much!

Michi

Can you please add some additional about commands like:

open the bookmark location in Windows explorer, similar to about:db-location

open the bookmarks.csv file itself to open up in an editor?

Thanks!
Michael

Michi

Great! Thanks for this!

Michi

Perfect! Thanks, very valuable, indeed!

Michi

Considering that extensions could be longer than one, two or three characters, like.config for example, supporting wildcards would be awesome!
This way I could find files or folder, too, like ext:conf*

Michi

Thanks for this comprehensive reply!

Could resolve this now!

Thanks,
Michael

Michi

Hi! A question regarding column formulas: I'm using this search w:\folder\ regex:tags:[a-z] column0:=REGEX_EXTRACT(REMOVE_EXTENSION(name:),"DE-DEG.*") addcolumn:column0 which adds column0 to the current result list. However, when performing a new, completely different search, column0 is st...

Michi

Thank you very much!

Michi

To get the same look-a-like as given in post #1, there are quite a few steps necessary to modify the ini-file. Of course one could open the file itself and add those lines manually. Any chance, maybe already available, to add some kind of "macro" functions where the user could edit many IN...

Michi

Hm, unless I've overlooked the obvious, but how do I change or add an icon to a bookmark?

Running 1.5.0.1326a right now and did not find an option in UI.

Michi

I am guessing Windows Explorer also does not show any metadata under Properties -> Details for this PDF? Yes, exactly! With Adobe Reader installed, Explorer does not show even a single metadata property. However, Microsoft Edge is configured as the primary PDF viewer, if this matters. pdf property....

Michi

Hi! Just got your e-mail and your answer! Many thanks for this!

To be fair, this document was the one and only I've seen so far with this issue, so it's certainly not a big problem. Anyway, I will look forward for your enhancement which will again bring ET one step ahead of others similar tools!

Michi

Just to be clear: my additional modification, that was recorded by the journal, was correctly index by ET, however only the modified comment was indexed again - nothing else...

Michi

I would not say it's a bug, rather an issue right now :D I assume that Directory Opus stores the metadata somewhere else. At least the comment is saved to an ADS as Leo from DO support team mentioned. Only the tags and the subject found their way into the PDF. Nevertheless, ET did only index the com...

Michi

Hi! I've done some testing with PDF properties and assigned some metadata to a pdf file. While using Directory Opus this looks like this: directory opus.jpg Searching in ET, added some columns, this file looks like: et.jpg I'm missing the title, the subject and the tags. When opening the pdf in Adob...

Michi

void wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 6:39 am Currently, icons must be manually set in your bookmarks.csv file.

Ah, that's the missing part - thanks for your explanation!

Michi

Just curious

Where do I find icon support in bookmarks, according the current release notes, it should be available for testing

Michi

No!

Just found my mistake: I've inserted a space between "content:" and the search word, e.g. "content:_Nachhaltigkeit".
Using "content:Nachhaltigkeit" works as expected.

Silly me, I recently stumbled across this bit and it just hit me again!

Michi

Hi! Running ET 1.50.1319a (x64), I just tried to search for a word, using the search string "content: nachhaltigkeit". The index is set up to scan the content of PDFs and more, regardless of its size, see below. The word "nachhaltigkeit" should be found inside a PDF document, but...

Michi

Cool!

Michi

No problem, thanks for your great tool!

Michi

Thanks, just checked and it works as described.

I've set /offline_alpha=128 in my case and the list of affected drives behave like normal ones.

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