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Raindrops

Thank you! Another idea is to let the user search for a particular hotkey in this window itself. Imagine this scenario: 1. User clicks in an input field, and presses a hotkey (e.g. CTRL+SHFT+SpaceBar). 2. The field shows all functions that are bound to this hotkey. This will make it easy to find any...

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It is hard for an average user to know (or remember) various configuration-related commands like About:keys . Instead, such commands should be converted into interface control (button, drop-down list, input field, check box, etc.) For example, instead of the about:keys command, a button should be pr...

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Yes, ESC was bound to File|Exit.

File|Close was already bound to another hotkey: CTRL+SHFT+W.
I added ESC to that, and now everything works fine.

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Oops! I just discovered a much simpler case: So I do not have to do anything inside Everything to crash it: Just pressing ESC is enough! This kills the threads. After that, both hotkeys (CTRL+SpaceBar and SHFT+CTRL+SpaceBar) cannot launch a window. The only way to launch Everything is by clicking on...

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Just to clarify, my typical workflow was- 1. Select string in a browser 2. CTRL+C 3. CTRL+SpaceBar - To launch Everything window 4. SHFT+CTRL+V - To paste the string w/o punctuation in Everything window 5. ESC - To dismiss Everything When my hotkey stopped launching Everything "randomly", ...

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The next course of action is to examine debug logs to try and work out what is going on: In Everything, from the Tools menu, under the Debug submenu, click Start Debug Logging. from another program, hit your Everything hotkey. ---please try repeating the above a few times to get Everything not to s...

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OK. I checked the dumps folder. It has several dump files generated over last one month. These are created mainly by msteamsupdate.exe and one file is created by explorer.exe. But there's none by Everything. Right now, I do not know if the problem got resolved. So I will have to wait till the hotkey...

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BTW all the settings you mentioned so far were exactly the same. I haven't changed anything at all. And yet Everything was working fine for such a long time. I kept on updating Everything to the latest alpha version, and it kept working. All of a sudden, this problem has popped up! That's the puzzli...

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Wow! Thanks a lot for the diligent pursuance of this issue! I have inserted point-by-point responses inline. That last screenshot shows the Everything search client is not running. It most likely crashed? That's the screenshot taken after the hotkey stopped responding. But some Everything threads we...

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So, when the hotkey is working, the Task Manager shows 3/4 lines of Everything processes.
They may be running in the foreground or background.
But when the hotkey fails, there are only two lines, both running in the background.

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When hotkey fails to launch Everything:

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Strangely, Everything works fine. I toggled it on/off with CTRL+SpaceBar, and also closed the window by clicking on its X button. But I noticed that the Task Manager shows considerable variation in the process listing: Everything is running: Everything running.png After closing Everything: Everythin...

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Update: The ALT+SpaceBar also stopped working. Now it shows windows controls (the options we see when we right-click on the top bar of any window.) I checked out the About:keys dialog, but this hotkey is not bound to any other function. So the pattern is, every time I set a new hotkey, it works only...

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Thanks! I had used that link, but I expected the list to be on the advanced settings page directly. I overlooked the all settings link given on that page. *************** BTW, I have started having the problem once again! In an experiment, I restored the hotkey to ALT+SpaceBar. Right now it is worki...

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Thanks a lot for the clarifications! I changed the setting and now Everything works fine. But in the past, the problem appeared only after a few operations. I hope it does not reappear now! IMHO the advanced settings needs a detailed table that explains each parameter: what would happen when a parti...

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I have not understood the meaning of these shortcuts listed in the about:keys dialog! What does Search Edit | Auto Complete Search mean? I didn't even know that I could auto-complete the string that is entered in the Search field. How would that work, given that there may be multiple files/folders m...

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It has two matches:

Search Edit | Auto Complete Search Ctrl+Space (Search Edit)
Result List | Toggle Focus Selection Ctrl+Space (Result List)

These settings must have been there for a long time, because IIRC I have not made any changes in Everything settings.

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I launched Everything 2-3 times with CTRL+SpaceBar method. Usually it stops responding after 2-3 times. So when it stopped responding, I launched it by clicking the Taskbar button. Then I used the Help > Troubleshooting information menu. A window popped up. I searched for about: keys But it does NOT...

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After my last post, I uninstalled 1356a with CCleaner, and restarted the laptop. Then I installed 1357a. (I figured that since 1356a also has the same issue, at least let me use the latest version!) I activated the Tools > Debug > Start debug logging menu. Then I closed Everything, and pressed CTRL+...

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update:

Even 1356a has started acting up!
(It worked fine after installation for a while.)

The CTRL+SpaceBar keystroke does not seem to be intercepted by any other app (at least, there is no visible response).
How can I check for this possibility?

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I replaced the CTRL+SpaceBar shortcut with ALT+SpaceBar. It worked perfectly. Then I replaced the shortcut with CTRL+SpaceBar again. It works sporadically. I installed 1356a without removing 1357a. Now the CTRL+SpaceBar shortcut works consistently. To conclude, there is something wrong in 1357a. 135...

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Yes, it works! Thanks for the clarification. BTW I found that Everything replaces the punctuation mark with a space. (it does not join the string on both sides of that punctuation mark). This is in fact a good thing: Everything finds item names that have both substrings anywhere in the name. For exa...

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IIRC the default was ALT+SpaceBar, but I changed it to CTRL+SpaceBar. This allows me to use a three-keystrokes sequence: CTRL+C to copy the string from any app (mainly browser) CTRL+SpaceBar to launch Everything CTRL+SHFT+V to search for that string Notice that the CTRL key remains pressed throughou...

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With further experience, it looks like the new version has some bug.
Even when English is the chosen language, CTRL+SpaceBar fails to launch the app.

The previous version used to work flawlessly just a few minutes ago!

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RegRx was not enabled at all.
In fact, none of the options are selected at present!

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I have set CTRL+SpaceBar as my hotkey to launch Everything. I also have installed multiple languages in my input methods, and I switch between the languages using Win+SpaceBar and Win+SHFT+SpaceBar. If I have set any non-English language, it seems to interfere with the launching of Everything. Switc...

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I upgraded to the Everything 1.5.0.1357a, and my punctuation type is set to "filename and search". And yet Everything is unable to ignore punctuation, except space. For example, I get several results when I search for Baarish and Baa rish (Everything ignores embedded space). But I don't ge...

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I had just followed the instructions and selected the " Filename and search " option for the Ignore_punctuation_type setting. When I select the other option (" Filename only ") and restart Everything, it cannot find any results for Baa,rish . In other words, I get the same resul...

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I hope the update addresses the issue I mentioned (3 posts before this one)

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I had just followed the instructions and selected the " Filename and search " option for the Ignore_punctuation_type setting. When I select the other option (" Filename only ") and restart Everything, it cannot find any results for Baa,rish . In other words, I get the same result...

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I have selected this option. But it does not work as expected. The word "baarish" occurs in a few file names in my collection. I tried to search for baarish and baa rish , both times all these files were found. But when I entered baa,rish in the search box, the search could not find these ...

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Will Everything join the strings on both sides of the punctuation, and form a new string? In that case, this combined string won't be found, which means a false negative. Instead, the punctuation should be replaced with a space. That way, even if the actual file has both tokens on either side of the...

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Ohk! Thanks for the tip.
This will help me report all problems accurately!

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oops!

But then counting the zeros in my high-resolution screen is always error-prone!
IINW it is not possible to copy the exact number from an error message....

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Great!

Instead of the path not found, the message I suggested sounds more helpful.

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I try to edit a file name when the volume is not available (e.g. HDD not connected to the laptop at the moment), then I get Error 000000002.

Instead of a cryptic code, it should simply tell me "Connect the volume and try again!"

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Hi

I am getting an error like this:

[Error 000000002]

So I wanted to search for it before reporting it. But when I search for "Error 000000002", I get a huge number of matches for "error" (just a single word).
Can't we search for a phrase?

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I genuinely use CTRL+F and F3 (and also SHFT+F3) in my browser on daily basis. (For that matter, I use them daily in other apps such as LibreOffice and Foxit pdfReader also.) IMHO any user should keep these nearly universal shortcuts in mind (just as F1 is for help and F2 is for edit). ---- It's fan...

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That's a wonderful idea!

It would be fantastic to have a global equivalent (synonym) list.

BTW, the users should be able to export/import/save this list, so that we can share such lists through this forum!
(Why reinvent the wheel?)

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I see! Yes, that's intuitive. User does not have to remember that or guess it. BTW this was just one example. There are many more commands that we have to enter in the SearchBar. We only discover them whenever we are discussing an issue here at the forum, and then you tell us to enter some string. A...

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In what form would that be? If I press F1 in Everything, it lands here . I cannot imagine see how a search field would logically fit in that page. Probably the users won't be expecting it there, either. BTW there are several features in Everything that must be accessed by entering a specific text st...

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Update: I had raised this request based on the recent discussion in another thread. But I found the answer in the very next post in that thread! I am reproducing the summary from that thread: 1. Select Tools > Options menu. 2. Click the Keyboard tab on the left. 3. Use the Show commands containing f...

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That solved the issue! Thanks a lot!

Raindrops

The About:Keys window provides a plain text list. The user can make a cheat sheet, which are usually printed posters. So the window serves the purpose nicely. However, if the user wants to do a quick search for a particular hotkey or a particular function, the window cannot help him, because there i...

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My "Single click open" option is set to "System settings", and my system settings are set to "double-click". (I do all my file management using FreeCommander, which has its own settings. I have activated "single click" mode there.) The About:Keys window shows ...

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Thanks!

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Well, the Alpha version should have a tweaked code to check for the latest alpha version, not the stable version!

After all, we are having this alpha run for a very long time, and there have been many many updates.
So now we need this update check within alpha versions.

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oops- I did not have the problem for a while, so I thought that it had got resolved. But now I have realized that the problem is still there, but it is not so consistent as before: It appears randomly. There is no pattern when it occurs. I have folders pane open at left. So when I press TAB, the foc...

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Done, thanks!

But why is this not happening by default?

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