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burgundy

Essentially, I wish to find files whose wholeword name is neither immediately preceded nor immediately followed by a punctuation symbol. The example I gave of "railway" earlier is the full name of the files I seek, not a part of it. So I do not want the following. european.railway european...

burgundy

I wish to find a file with a wholeword name that is NOT delimited by a punctuation symbol. For example, I wish to find a file called railway but NOT see hits of files whose name contains european.railway I had hoped the search menu options for "Match Whole Words" and "Ignore Punctuati...

burgundy

I seem to recall a discussion in this forum about implementing a feature in Everything to not display files in specified folders , by selecting the folder in the results list and then taking some option. Was this ever implemented? I can see an entry for "Assistant" in the context menu of f...

burgundy

Well spotted. I must not have properly absorbed that last message at the time. Thank you for your eagle eye!

burgundy

In an earlier discussion about a possible bug it was suggested to use "past" in preference to "last" as a date modifier.

For example:

dc:past14days

Does this advice still hold? What difference is there between "past" and "last"?

burgundy

Is it possible to change all fonts used by Everything with a single setting? There's an entry for font In Options > Fonts & Colors but this only affects the selected items. Is there a way to change the font for all items (headings, address bar, results list, etc) in one go? I had hoped the item ...

burgundy

Has anyone suggested allowing the user to define a color for entries in the results, depending on whether the entry matched some criteria. For example .... if a result entry is a link (rather than the actual file) then the user could specify that any result whose extension matched ".LNK" w...

burgundy

Thank you. I presume that the check box corresponds to one of the advanced settings, but it's a lot easier!

burgundy

I use different two instances of Everything. In one, when I start to key in a search term, a dropdown appears which allows me to select from previous searches that matches what I have keyed this time. This dropdown does not appear in the other instance. Which setting will provide the same "matc...

burgundy

Begging your pardon ... I had thought the text given at the end of the entry for "path_narrow" was the command for that entry. I now see it is a link to a related setting. Same goes for the other entry. My apologies for the false alert.

burgundy

The settings for "path_narrow" and "path_ellipsis" are incorrectly reversed on the following web page.

viewtopic.php?t=9994#path_ellipsis

burgundy

I unchecked "Index Date Created" and observed that a search on created date was slow enough to be visible. This was my search: dc:past28days .pdf Checking "Index Date Created" improved search time considerably. It was almost instantaneous on my slow PC. In that case, why is there...

burgundy

So did either reply actually help? Hi Rube, my confusion came from using TAB rather than ENTER. I have no idea why I started to do that. :( This thread has shown (in the link to the "Beyondo Broken" thread) that locating recently used Everything results fields can be customised with optio...

burgundy

Thank you all for the replies.

burgundy

When I repeat a former search and (if I recall correctly) press TAB to go to the results list, then Everything would focus on the result item which was selected last time.

This no longer happens. I wonder if I have changed a setting inadvertently. Is there a way to restore this?

burgundy

That's great. Thank you.

Can a keyboard shortcut command be assigned to toggle "path_narrow" or "path-ellipsis"?

burgundy

I notice the "path" specified in the results list is in a different format than usual. The last folder is listed first, followed by the rest of the path in brackets.

Where can I find information about what options are available for this?

(I am on Everything version 1.5.0.1356a.)

burgundy

I downloaded Everything 1.5.0.1356a and made the change to "ignore_punctuation_type".

However when I search using:

april-2023

it does not find files with the following in their name (which I want to find):

april 2023

.
How do I do this?

burgundy

Yes, using "Monitor Changes" on my K: drive fixed the problem. Yes, files on my K: drives now get shown in gray. Conversely, after I uncheck "Monitor Changes" for the K: drive then, without relaunching Everything, any hits found on K are no longer gray. If it helps, below are the...

burgundy

I tried changing "offline_alpha" as is suggested but it doesn't make a difference UNTIL I selected "Monitor changes" in the NTFS tab in Options. The following is copied from Everything's statistics. Volume K is actually offline and volume N is actually online. After I made the ch...

burgundy

This problem of the offline results not showing in gray was resolved but not it has returned. My starting point this time is to double check that a grayed-out color is defined within "Fonts and Colors" in Options. I'm assuming this is something which can be user-defined. I can set the &quo...

burgundy

Thank you. Similarly is there a modifier which finds a string only in the file name?

I have tried "file:" and "files-only:" but some results match the path proper and not the file name.

burgundy

Is there a modifier similar to "path:" but which does not include the filename?

I wish to find files in paths with a certain string in the path name.

burgundy

I had been trying to use the modifier "path:" although your suggestion reminds me that in this particular case it is not strictly necessary. If "path:" (or another modifier) were used, then could it be done by a use of a single entry of "path:"? For example, maybe somet...

burgundy

I want to search for particular files (to be specified) either on this path "d:\med) " or on this path "d:\med " Is it possible to write this as a single search? (Clarification: there is one trailing blank in the first term and three trailing blanks in the second term which this ...

burgundy

May I suggest having a checkbox to enable/disable the additional folders in Options > Indexes > Folders. There is already a similar checkbox to what I suggest in the "Exclude" folders tab in Options. Personally, I would like to see such checkboxes for EACH individual folder, as well as a m...

burgundy

I want to find documents within a certain date range. At present I use something like this dc:>05-04-2023 dc:<16-04-2023 Is it possible to specify a starting date and followed by the duration of the subsequent period. So in my example above, the search syntax might be something like this: dc:=05-04-...

burgundy

Yes, that Regex works. Thank you!

burgundy

For best results, please specify the exact path where the .lnk files are located that you want to exclude from being excluded ( :? ) That sounds interesting. Can you help me with the Regex. How do I specify the following correctly in Regex? C:\Documents and Settings\Nemo\#NEMO-TASKBAR MENUS\NG\*.lnk

burgundy

[Posted within this thread on managing shortcuts] Is there a way to copy changes to keyboard shortcuts from one instance to another? I have two instances of Everything, each of which indexes different volumes. When i make keyboard shortcut changes to one instance, then I would like to see them in th...

burgundy

I suspect that's the cause.

I removed the drive and rebuilt the index, along with a few reboots. All was well again and the "Online:Yes" entry is now correct.

burgundy

Both volumes are NTFS.

Both have monitoring enabled in Everything's options.

(By the way, surely "Online:Yes" means Everything is indeed seeing the volume as online?)

burgundy

Statistics show:
one volume is "Online:Yes"
the other is simply "Online"

I reset the defaults for "Fonts and Colors". Now the violet color I saw for results goes to black. It is black for results from both online and offline volumes.

burgundy

Closing and opening doesn't help.

It may or may not be a clue to what's happening but ... when I zoom the view from 100% to 110% then I can see a few extra entries in the Filter dropdown.

burgundy

Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately that doesn't work. I just noticed my good instance shows results in true black This means that in the bad instance, results from all volumes (online and offline) are being shown in gray. (Actually, it's a sort of violet colour). So the problem now becomes is w...

burgundy

I have been making (too many) changes to my settings!

Now, items in the result list from an offline volume are no longer shown grayed out.

How can I get these entries to show in gray once again?

burgundy

To set the maximum number of visible items in the filter bar dropdown list: In Everything , type in the following search and press ENTER : /filter_visible_count_max=40 where 40 is the maximum number of items to show. 30 is the default. Toggle the filter bar for changes to take effect: In Everything...

burgundy

On my PC I have gathered together many shortcuts and put them in one folder. Can I set up Everything to hide shortcuts in the results in general, but to show them just for this particular folder? In "Options > Indexes > Exclude" , I have this entry "*.lnk" (without quotes). Howev...

burgundy

What shortcut keys have changed for you? or what keyboard shortcuts have you lost? Here's a list of recent changes: etc I have created some new keyboard shortcuts to previously unassigned functions. I have also created some new keyboard shortcuts by replacing some standard assignments . This could ...

burgundy

To match paths when using a \ but ignore the \ character: Copy and paste the following into the Everything 1.5 search box: /path_search_type=2 Press ENTER in the Everything search box. If successful, path_search_type=2 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds. \ is now replaced with **\** and d...

burgundy

void wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2018 6:30 amAll functions support the file: or folder: modifier to limit results to files only or folders only.

Should path: also be added to file: and folder: ?

I am trying to see if I've understood this correctly!

burgundy

Have some keyboard shortcuts in v1.5 been reassigned at any time during its development?

burgundy

Is there a way to keep up with changes to keyboard shortcuts in v1.5? I think there have been some changes over time, such as to shortcuts for copying a path of an entry in the result list. PS: PLEASE include a facility in keyboard options to enter a shortcut key combination and then see which comma...

burgundy

This entry in Everything.ini might help in Everything version 1.4.1.1022 and/or Everything 1.5.0.1337a: beta_updates=1 In Everything, type in the following search and press ENTER: /beta_updates=1 In both versions I receive the message: "Everything is up to date!". Everything v1.5 on WinXP...

burgundy

When I check for updates by using Everything > Help > Check for Updates,

I get a message saying "Unable to check for updates: failed to send version request".

This happens on v1.4 and v1.5.

What could be causing this? I am on WinXP.

burgundy

Alt-LeftArrow (and Alt-RightArrow) works fine for me in 1.5. History needs to be enabled in the Options. That's useful. Thank you. Unfortunately the history entries which this shows are lost when the app is re-launched. I suspect it's not difficult to change Everything to make these commands to inc...

burgundy

void wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 10:58 pm Alt + Left Arrow will set the search to the previous search.

How can I do the same action (mentioned above) in version 1.5?

burgundy

When I use a wildcard, Everything returns only folders. I get this with Everything v1.4 and v1.5.

How do I also see files in the results?

As an example, I might enter the following in the address bar.

*KV

burgundy

I have encountered a strange situation. I have a folder called "replacement boiler" (without quotation marks).

Everything 1.5 can find that folder when I search for "\ replacement" but not when I search for "\\ replacement".

Is this supposed to happen?

burgundy

It seems the search modifier "folder:" (without quotations) can be used anywhere in the search terms. Either before or after the text string it qualifies. If that is correct, why does the search shown below return results when the folder name and the file name are two separate things? fred...

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