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by therube
Tue May 07, 2024 3:33 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: K: USB Flash Drive, does not show Size / Date
Replies: 0
Views: 5

K: USB Flash Drive, does not show Size / Date

K: USB Flash Drive, does not show Size / Date Everything 1373 K: drive, USB Flash, Include, Enable, Monitor 235 files = !size: !size:0 235 files - !date: (that's date modified) So I enabled the Date Create column (not normally there) & the missing size/date files were date created as below DC = ...
by therube
Tue May 07, 2024 3:15 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: Find Length Duplicates, does not find all Length Duplicates
Replies: 0
Views: 5

Find Length Duplicates, does not find all Length Duplicates

Find Length Duplicates, does not find all Length Duplicates, necessarily. Lengths <> dupe (suddenly, in a new window) & with a 1.sec tolerance* <filter> video: sort:name: distinct: - with a 1.sec tolerance* actually, tolerance is immaterial. it can be =0 or =1... V A 00:45:15.000 (00:45:15:00) 0...
by therube
Tue May 07, 2024 3:13 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: Grouping is Wrong with a Length Tolerance=1
Replies: 0
Views: 3

Grouping is Wrong with a Length Tolerance=1

Grouping is Wrong, sometimes, with length_dupe_tolerance<>0.

(i have not seen the issue when tolerance=0)
.
by therube
Tue May 07, 2024 3:07 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: Find Keeps Focus
Replies: 0
Views: 2

Find Keeps Focus

Find (Ctrl+F) Keeps Focus ( search_for_text_when_you_start_typing =false - immaterial, but it helps to see the issue) open Find (Ctrl+F) close Find (ESC, or hit the 'X' in the dialog) - at this point in time, focus is NOT not in the searchbar not in the results list arrow keys (up, down, left, right...
by therube
Tue May 07, 2024 3:02 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: Restore Defaults, should have a warning prompt
Replies: 0
Views: 3

Restore Defaults, should have a warning prompt

Restore Defaults, in particular in particular in places like Keyboard & Advanced, should have a warning prompt. (Ask me how I know ;-).) Let me clue you in. Either, there is a bug in the program that inadvertently resets settings back to defaults, or, some person sitting behind a keyboard clicke...
by therube
Mon May 06, 2024 2:50 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: Unexpected "Search Bar" BEHAVIOR after running Everything and trying to search immediately.
Replies: 8
Views: 106

Re: Unexpected "Search Bar" BEHAVIOR after running Everything and trying to search immediately.

Many, many, many changes between Everything openings?
Indexing Properties that might be time consuming, that might need to be caught up on, between Everything openings?


(Why would anyone ever even close Everything, except to update? ;-))
by therube
Mon May 06, 2024 2:43 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: How to find similar videos? Does properties help?
Replies: 6
Views: 99

Re: How to find similar videos? Does properties help?

I use hashmedia.bat to find same "content" (for as far as I understand it) between two otherwise video files that do not size/hash compare. As in, the video "streams" may be the same, where the video files are not. 1) can be done by checking the file hash (which Everything 1.5 al...
by therube
Mon May 06, 2024 2:34 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: Sessions
Replies: 16
Views: 968

Re: Sessions

It should be restoring any windows that were opened at the time of your Quit (File | Exit). If you had 3 windows opened, then closed 2 of them, then Quit, only that last Window would be restored. If you had 3 windows opened, then Quit, 3 windows should be restored. (At least, that how I think it wor...
by therube
Fri May 03, 2024 4:11 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: 1373 breaks transfer of .db & reading on another compter
Replies: 9
Views: 217

Re: 1373 breaks transfer of .db & reading on another compter

Oh, oh, oh, on this computer, I've not had a chance to update (my normal running) Everything from 1.5.0.1367a (x86) [uptime, 3 months ago (12:07:47 PM 01/11/2024)]. Though in my .ARJ, I have a copy of Everything1373.exe, & it is that that runs & opens the .db - though the service (is it usin...
by therube
Fri May 03, 2024 4:05 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: 1373 breaks transfer of .db & reading on another compter
Replies: 9
Views: 217

Re: 1373 breaks transfer of .db & reading on another compter

I take the very same .ARJ, copy it into a new directory, named \ZZZ\, extract its' contents, run GO-HOME-HOME.BAT, & it worked. The very same actions, the very same file, only a moment ago - failed? Command line: -instance HOME -read-only -no-auto-include Binary: C:\DEV\LOCATE\HOME\Y\ZZZ\Everyth...
by therube
Fri May 03, 2024 4:00 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: 1373 breaks transfer of .db & reading on another compter
Replies: 9
Views: 217

Re: 1373 breaks transfer of .db & reading on another compter

And I read the debug link. And I Quit Everything. And I restart Everything - having done nothing more, & it works, it sees my files. (Somewhere along the line, I might have change from my UNIQ filter to the Everything filter.) And now, when I look at troubleshooting it correctly shows, \HOME\Y: ...
by therube
Fri May 03, 2024 3:49 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: 1373 breaks transfer of .db & reading on another compter
Replies: 9
Views: 217

Re: 1373 breaks transfer of .db & reading on another compter

(COMPUTER 2) Copied that same .ARJ, & thew it on my current machine. I throw the .ARJ into a directory & extract its' contents. I run GO-HOME-HOME.BAT, & - IT FAILS? troubleshooting: Everything: 1.5.0.1373a (x86) OS: Windows NT 6.1 7601 (x64) Admin: 0 Service: 6 (connected / partially in...
by therube
Fri May 03, 2024 3:38 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: 1373 breaks transfer of .db & reading on another compter
Replies: 9
Views: 217

Re: 1373 breaks transfer of .db & reading on another compter

it worked
It worked - on the computer I'm backing up from.

I created the backup (as I have always been doing).
I throw the .ARJ into a directory & extract its' contents.
I run GO-HOME-HOME.BAT, & it worked.
by therube
Fri May 03, 2024 3:32 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: 1373 breaks transfer of .db & reading on another compter
Replies: 9
Views: 217

Re: 1373 breaks transfer of .db & reading on another compter

Anyhow, even though I ran into this "bad" .db, when I run my BU-HOME.bat, again, having changed nothing at all (in methodology or program versions) - it worked.
by therube
Fri May 03, 2024 3:26 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: 1373 breaks transfer of .db & reading on another compter
Replies: 9
Views: 217

Re: 1373 breaks transfer of .db & reading on another compter

So... I was thinking... it was an outright issue with 1373, that the .db changed in some way? then that it might have be a mish-mash issue with Everything versions? perhaps ? as early as 1367, but if not, then 1371..1373, & where i was using one version to do this, & another to do that? so i...
by therube
Fri May 03, 2024 3:05 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: 1373 breaks transfer of .db & reading on another compter
Replies: 9
Views: 217

Re: 1373 breaks transfer of .db & reading on another compter

> free disk space available Shouldn't be an issue. > and the db file is copying correctly From what I can tell, looks OK. > Could you please check your search? -Is there anything shown in the status bar on the right? PATH|!PUNC|STOPPED|UNIQ (UNIQ is a distinct: filter) . Everything - GOOD vs FAIL - ...
by therube
Thu May 02, 2024 5:52 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: 1373 breaks transfer of .db & reading on another compter
Replies: 9
Views: 217

1373 breaks transfer of .db & reading on another compter

1373 breaks transfer of a .db from one computer, copying it to another, & reading it on that other computer. (Maybe it was with 1372, not sure offhand. I was using 1371's .exe in my HOME Profile & hadn't copied the .db to my other computer - which I had been doing on an almost daily basis .....
by therube
Thu May 02, 2024 5:48 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: Problem with visibility of highlighted file names!
Replies: 6
Views: 203

Re: Problem with visibility of highlighted file names!

1.4 or 1.5?

1.5 ->
Tools | Options | General -> Fonts and Colors
I would think would handle it.

1.4, I wouldn't know?
by therube
Thu May 02, 2024 2:40 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: 1370: Cut / Paste bug
Replies: 18
Views: 1678

Re: 1370: Cut / Paste bug

similarly, but NOT nearly as much of an issue > searchstring !OADS distinct: now, if you rename a file (in the results list), adding OADS to it - so you now have "searchstringOADS" because searchstingOADS no longer meets the search query its result is (rightly) removed - at that point, foc...
by therube
Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:23 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Duration/Length
Replies: 7
Views: 268

Re: Duration/Length

Where are your column headers, or is that only a partial shot, a shot not showing the various Property categories? What version of 1.5? I see no such [Find Name Duplicates]option in mine If yours is the top picture, then Find Name Duplicates is there. More generally it is Find <column header> Duplic...
by therube
Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:11 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: Can I avoid killing the Everything Service every time I...?
Replies: 5
Views: 188

Re: Can I avoid killing the Everything Service every time I...?

I have to kill the service is when I have to remove a pendrive because Everything is indexing the whole thing Explain that? Everything is indexing Properties on the drive - which may be timely, depending. And you're wanting to remove the drive, yet this indexing (of Properties) is still ongoing? If...
by therube
Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:05 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Show duplicate files once
Replies: 3
Views: 133

Re: Show duplicate files once

Everything 1.5 Alpha has its' own distinct: so add distinct: to your search.

c:/tmp/*.exe distinct:
by therube
Mon Apr 29, 2024 2:54 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: Sessions
Replies: 16
Views: 968

Re: Sessions

4 windows, 11 tabs (purposely restarted, to see what would happen) so this time, it took only 1.min & far less activity going on should have noted that on the restore I (above) that i was copying some files during the time of the restore, & while the actual file count wasn't too high (91 if ...
by therube
Fri Apr 26, 2024 2:55 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: Sessions
Replies: 16
Views: 968

Re: Sessions

(Portable) Relatively long, ~2.min, high CPU & I/O on updating from 1372 to 1373, restoring session after 1373 opened. Everything: 1.5.0.1373a (x86) OS: Windows NT 6.1 7601 (x64) Admin: 0 Service: 1 (connected / installed and running) Command line: -instance 15 Binary: C:\DEV\Locate\15.1373\Ever...
by therube
Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:42 pm
Forum: Off-topic discussion
Topic: Internet in-depth search codes
Replies: 4
Views: 3192

Re: Internet in-depth search codes

Might you get more results simply by being less specific? Granted you'll then come across unwanted results too. So instead of excluding: -asp -cf -htm -html -jsp -php -mid -mod -nfo -sap -txt -xm -xmi don't exclude anything. And instead including: (alac|ape|ogg|flac|mp2|mp3|mp4|mp+|mpc|mpp|tta|wav|w...
by therube
Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:21 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: 1370: Cut / Paste bug
Replies: 18
Views: 1678

Re: 1370: Cut / Paste bug

CUT a file (do not change focus in the results list) Alt+Back & PASTE into some other directory say, oops. OOPS. you made a mistake so CUT that just pasted file & then Alt+FWD now Paste the file back to where it was initially That operation fails, because when you Alt+FWD - at that point, fo...
by therube
Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:18 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: 1370: Cut / Paste bug
Replies: 18
Views: 1678

Re: 1370: Cut / Paste bug

CUT a file
(do not change focus in the results list)
Alt+Back & PASTE into some other directory
Alt+FWD

- at that point, focus is NOT (not in the results list)

Alt+Back
Alt+FWD

- at this point, focus is restored to the results list
by therube
Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:17 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: 1370: Cut / Paste bug
Replies: 18
Views: 1678

Re: 1370: Cut / Paste bug

I guess I'm expecting a selection that had been set to remain set, even if the item that had been selected is no longer there.

So if the results list is selected, it should remain selected even when some action, external or otherwise, causes it to be in a "not selected" state.
by therube
Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:59 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: (Automated) Restart may ignore (existing) command line switches
Replies: 1
Views: 160

(Automated) Restart may ignore (existing) command line switches

Just noting... An (Automated) [Everything] Restart may ignore (preexisting) command line switches. any number of Everything 'Restart' prompts affect things like a pre-existing -read-only session, such that on a 'Restart', the -read-only is not enforced, so that on a subsequent Quit, the .db is re-wr...
by therube
Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:57 pm
Forum: General
Topic: How to find many names (partial match of different names) of music files on disk?
Replies: 14
Views: 1748

Re: How to find many names (partial match of different names) of music files on disk?

"Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick.mp3"
"Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick (live).mp3"
by therube
Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:53 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: Search for zero size files inside archives
Replies: 2
Views: 169

Re: Search for zero size files inside archives

(Outside of Everything...) If you had a listing of "ZIP" file contents, you could search for specific values in specific fields. So if you have a listing of a file named 'out' that contained: 7-zip.exe l *.ZIP 7-Zip 23.01 (x64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2023 Igor Pavlov : 2023-06-20 Scanning th...
by therube
Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:59 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: Color of column
Replies: 9
Views: 691

Re: Color of column

Is "name", literal? So this would color size & dm: [{"name":"size","foreground_color":"#00fff0"},{"name":"dm","foreground_color":"#00ff00"}] (Just using foreground, removed the dark_, & changed the colo...
by therube
Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:55 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: Coloring & Dupe Lines Not Working Correctly, always
Replies: 1
Views: 107

Coloring & Dupe Lines Not Working Correctly, always

1371 (I've not looked at 1372 yet. And I believe there was another fairly recent similar post too?) Coloring & Dupe Lines Not Working Correctly, always. (I might have wording/terminology incorrect...) dupe:size;!name;dm !/$recycle !/music !/corrupt does not do "dupelines" ("groupl...
by therube
Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:47 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: 1370: Cut / Paste bug
Replies: 18
Views: 1678

Re: 1370: Cut / Paste bug

now that I know what's going on, I won't be able to duplicate it - because I'll now knowingly set focus when I Ctrl+TAB to a Tab on seeing it unset Don't believe it. Cause you will forget. And then you'll be like huh? And then you will check this & check that & check the other, & then y...
by therube
Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:55 pm
Forum: Off-topic discussion
Topic: Deleting files without touching a directories date
Replies: 8
Views: 505

Re: Deleting files without touching a directories date

with a quick look, that (robocopy alone) is looking good :-) (come to think of it, FreeFileSync forums has probably mentioned that before. i'll have to look...) & thinking more about it, odd that it even does as it does. but then, i guess if you look at it that you're copying an "item"...
by therube
Wed Apr 10, 2024 7:09 pm
Forum: General
Topic: How to find many names (partial match of different names) of music files on disk?
Replies: 14
Views: 1748

Re: How to find many names (partial match of different names) of music files on disk?

Explain the file names?
Real names would help.

What would be the search you're using or looking to use to find said file names?

A Bit Rate (Property) column can be added.
(Needs Everything 1.5.)
by therube
Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:43 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: everything in the search results always shows the same file twice.
Replies: 2
Views: 170

Re: everything in the search results always shows the same file twice.

Do something like add a Folder Index that duplicates one of your automatically indexed drives?

Check
Tools | Options | Indexes
.
by therube
Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:25 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: How to import a very large list of filenames from a text file for searching?
Replies: 6
Views: 314

Re: How to import a very large list of filenames from a text file for searching?

It may relate to your editor (& what it might do or not do with your particular file name [encoding]). Source, 12 items: 1-1-4501 aka the NON date - - BLOWS UP BRU.mp3 Anneke Van Giersbergen - Time After Time [norman lear version] [2012] [136kbits 48kHz] [conv-96kHz] [619 min] [868 kbps 96 kHz] ...
by therube
Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:06 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: [Suggestion] Clean up Column context menu
Replies: 5
Views: 294

Re: [Suggestion] Clean up Column context menu

I'm apt to use the Add Columns..., figuring it is quicker (for me) to go there, & filter, to find my wanted Property rather then picking a particular category & seeing if my wanted Property is included therein.

That said, don't really care the the categorized lists (also) exist.
by therube
Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:59 pm
Forum: Off-topic discussion
Topic: Deleting files without touching a directories date
Replies: 8
Views: 505

Re: Deleting files without touching a directories date

(backup copies i made before doing any of the above) note that robocopy retains both DM & DC (directory) dates - across volumes (might be different, elsewhere) (fcp did the same) ROBOCOPY . T:/NEW/LOCATE-robo /e (& / *are* allowed ;-)) Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras Dirs : 176 1...
by therube
Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:49 pm
Forum: Off-topic discussion
Topic: Deleting files without touching a directories date
Replies: 8
Views: 505

Re: Deleting files without touching a directories date

RE-DATE.bat, copies, waits for you to make changes, then re-dates in one "go". :: RE-DATE.bat - copies a directory tree /structure/ (no files) :: allowing one to make changes to the source directories :: then "re-dates" the source directory date/time back to what they were before...
by therube
Fri Apr 05, 2024 8:25 pm
Forum: Off-topic discussion
Topic: Deleting files without touching a directories date
Replies: 8
Views: 505

Re: Deleting files without touching a directories date

Not particularly concerned about Created.
Though appears robocopy does retain that too.
by therube
Fri Apr 05, 2024 6:53 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Cannot locate 'Size on disk'
Replies: 3
Views: 202

Re: Cannot locate 'Size on disk'

Everything Version 1.4
You'll need 1.5 alpha to be able to add something like the, Size on disk Property.
by therube
Fri Apr 05, 2024 6:51 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Cannot locate 'Size on disk'
Replies: 3
Views: 202

Re: Cannot locate 'Size on disk'

Your hotlink isn't flying, so, https://i.imgur.com/oGbr4EK.png.
by therube
Fri Apr 05, 2024 6:10 pm
Forum: Off-topic discussion
Topic: Deleting files without touching a directories date
Replies: 8
Views: 505

Deleting files without touching a directories date

Deleting files without touching a directories date? When Voidhash runs, it does not touch directory time/date Conceptually, how do you go about this? I've got some files that I want to delete from various top-level directories - without changing the directory time stamp. So: X/file1 X/file2 X/file3 ...
by therube
Thu Apr 04, 2024 3:29 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: distinct: has become more distinct:
Replies: 5
Views: 642

Re: distinct: has become more distinct:

a file deleted from outside of Everything is not removed from a DISTINCT: listing - is that expected? ... & then a bit of time after writing the above, i happened to see this "file" - in Everything & i thought, i ought to move that file to my "DELME" directory so i CUT th...
by therube
Thu Apr 04, 2024 3:27 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: distinct: has become more distinct:
Replies: 5
Views: 642

Re: distinct: has become more distinct:

i had "T:/1.mp3" "T:/2.mp3" "C:/1 + 2.mp3" i CUT C:/1 + 2.mp3 & PASTED into T:/ at that point, "1 + 2.mp3" was gone - unexpectedly even though DISTINCT: was in force, as all 3 files were visible, initially, i (still) expected the MOVE (cut+paste) to still ...
by therube
Thu Apr 04, 2024 3:23 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: 1367: Size & Date Missing (Part II)
Replies: 17
Views: 1277

Re: 1367: Size & Date Missing (Part II)

There should be some when you plugin or unplug your H: drive, or when it wakes from sleep. Oops, sorry about that. H: is not a removable device, so there is no plug in nor unplug. It is a fixed disk (spinner), that (I suppose, & in particular when the [house] temperature is colder) is too slow ...
by therube
Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:59 pm
Forum: Everything 1.5 Alpha
Topic: 1367: Size & Date Missing (Part II)
Replies: 17
Views: 1277

Re: 1367: Size & Date Missing (Part II)

oh, oh, the rename is working to pick up the missing size. it has been ever since (back when [March])... what i was posting about (the other day) was dealing with the part when my H: drive disappears (not seen on awakening from sleep) in any case... update m 1 06d9e828 disconnected from service Ever...
by therube
Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:58 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Second instance, separate database?
Replies: 7
Views: 357

Re: Second instance, separate database?

-instance command-line switch. The .ini, .db, ... will be named the same as your -instance name. You can use the -choose-volumes switch to (initially) not automatically index volumes. Then go into Tools | Options | Indexes & manually add the drive(s) you want. (Then remove [if from batch file o...