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case: isn't really needed.

without case: you may inadvertently remove some paths, eg:

c:\music\Röyksopp
c:\music\royksopp

Use case:distinct:fullpath if you want these both to show up.

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distinct: will find distinct: names.

Please try the following search to find distinct full paths:

distinct:fullpath

Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> property_cache_exclude_folders Set to a semicolon (;) delimited list of folders to exclude when gathering properties. -or- Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> property_cache_include_only_folders Set to a semicolon (;) delimited list of folders to include only when gatheri...

It's from running Everything in a Drive-L instance, eg:

Everything.exe -instance "Drive-L"

Tools -> Options -> Folders -> L: -> Check Never Rescan. You can manually rescan from Tools -> Options -> Folders -> L: -> Rescan Now Everything only has one database. The .tmp file is written to disk. When it has been completely written it is renamed to a .db file. Everything would have been termin...

Add the same filter to your exclude folders:

In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
Click the Exlucde tab on the left.
To the right of the exclude folders list, click Add Filter....
Set the filter to the following and click OK:
$*
Click OK.

Index attributes under Tools -> Options -> Index -> Index attributes. Create a filter to hide hidden files/folders: From the Search menu, click Add to filters... Change the Name to: Not Hidden Change the Search to: !attribute:h Click OK. Filters can be activated from the Search menu, Filter bar (Vie...

What version of Everything are you using? (Help -> About)

Omit Results
(Enable result omissions under the Index menu)

dupe: in Everything 1.4 is rather limited. dupe: in Everything 1.4 will find duplicated items in your entire index, not the current results. It works best when used on its own, without other search parameters. For example, use sizedupe: and sort by size descending. Everything 1.5 will have support f...

Does the following search help:

parent:C:\abc

Everything 1.4 has a -load-delay command line option: You will need to disable Everything from running on startup under Tools -> Options -> General -> Uncheck Run Everything on system startup. Create a shortcut to your Everything.exe in your shell:startup folder Set the shortcut target to: "C:\...

Thank you for your feedback ThorOfAsgard,

Everything 1.5 will have support for a length column.

To open folders from Everything in XYplorer: In Everything , from the Tools menu, click Options . Click the Context Menu tab on the left. Select Open (Folders) Change the command to: $exec("C:\Program Files\XYplorer\XYplorer.exe" "%1") Select Open Path Change the command to: $exe...

Please try setting your bookmark search to: /expand parent:$current-search: Search commands /expand To toggle the parent: search modifier, set your bookmark search to: /expand <if:<regex-match:$current-search:,"^parent:">,<regex-replace:$current-search:,"^parent:","">,p...

Please make sure no search options are checked under the Search menu (eg: uncheck match case, uncheck match whole words, uncheck regex) Please make sure the Everything filter is active under the Search menu. Please make sure these files are not excluded from Tools -> Options -> Exclude. Please try f...

child:video: video: will expand to the search in your Video filter. child:video: => child:ext:3g2;3gp;3gp2;3gpp;amv;asf;asx;avi;bdmv;bik;d2v;divx;drc;dsa;dsm;dss;dsv;evo;f4v;flc;fli;flic;flv;hdmov;ifo;ivf;m1v;m2p;m2t;m2ts;m2v;m4b;m4p;m4v;mkv;mp2v;mp4;mp4v;mpe;mpeg;mpg;mpls;mpv2;mpv4;mov;mts;ogm;ogv;...

Everything uses semicolon (;) delimited lists.

Please try changing your Excludes files to:

*.lnk;~$*;$*

Temporarily setting the font color is probably overkill at this stage. I will support any window/view options that you can change directly (without going into settings) eg: view -> thumbnails Thank you for discussing another option. And this was working nice (tested with "preview_visible=1"...

Open some of the folders and double check they are 'watched' folders and safe to delete.

Backup the names if ever wanted to remember what you watched or what you deleted..

The folders will be small, so you could move them to another folder if you wanted to keep them.

File List Slots

File list slots allow you to do multiple search passes.

eg: search for files that are related to a different search for files.

Thank you for clarifying. Search for: folder: V:\Videos\Movies\* size:<200mb !child:video: This will list folders directly in V:\Videos\Movies where the folder size is less than 200MB and it doesn't directly contain a video file. Make a backup of the folder names before deleting: From the File menu,...

I think I understand, you want to delete V:\Videos\Movies\The.Best.Movie.1080p\Sample You would need to do this with two passes: Search for: folder: V:\Videos\Movies\* size:<200mb -or- folders: V:\Videos\Movies\* !child:video: Select all folders and copy the filenames with Ctrl + Shift + C Change th...

From what I understand you want to delete the folder:

V:\Videos\Movies\The.Best.Movie.1080p

Do you only want to delete the sample file:

V:\Videos\Movies\The.Best.Movie.1080p\Sample\The.Best.Movie.1080p.sample.mkv

or delete the sample folder:

V:\Videos\Movies\The.Best.Movie.1080p\Sample

Is the following search helpful: Find folders directly in V:\Videos\Movies where the total folder size is less than 200MB: folder: V:\Videos\Movies\* size:<200mb or, find folders directly in V:\Videos\Movies where there's no 'video' file directly in the folder: folders: V:\Videos\Movies\* !child:vid...

tab/window labels (custom titles) are on my TODO list.

nop: search function.

Yes.
Ideally, tab-labels will use the bookmark name when opened.
Thank you for the suggestion.

For now, the tab title will show: search - filter - directory

Could you please send your Session-15.backup.json to support@voidtools.com

Maybe there was an expensive search in one of your tabs.

Does Windows Explorer see your H: drive?
It should take Everything about 30 seconds to pickup your H: drive when it comes online.

Thank you for your feedback nikov, Thank you for discussing about so many options to achieve this. The "preview:" Search Function and "home_remove_layout" setting is a nice way to do this. But they are not for all config settings. There should be search functions that cover all w...

I recommend leaving clear_focus_on_search set to false and setting show_focus_on_search to false.

Everything should be resetting the vertical scroll position on search. Are the following settings enabled or disabled: Tools -> Options -> Results -> Clear selection on search Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> clear_focus_on_search (this is bugged and is currently bringing the focus into view when ena...

Please try setting your ALT+Y bookmark search to:

/hide-preview

I need to categorizes the search commands as its difficult to find at the moment:
/hide-preview

Everything 1.5.0.1372a adds full support for html5 character entities. Everything also supports the following non-standard character entities: &cr: &#13: &#x0d: &nl: &#10: &#x0a: % &percent: &#37: &#x25: &sp: &#32: &#x20: &space: &#32: &#x...

Currently not possible with stock Windows/Everything.
It might be possible with third party property system shell extensions.

An option to display and search the average image color in Everything is on my TODO list.

Closing one instance will break the other instance. It's not fatal, the other instance will restart the service after one minute. Everything will not see any file system changes to NTFS volumes while the Everything Service is stopped. You can enable stop_service_on_exit in both inis. I recommend lea...

Add preview: to your search: ext:jpg preview: -or- Use a multi-line bookmark search with the /show-preview search command: /show-preview ext:jpg (Press Alt + Enter to add a new line) preview: /show-preview /hide-preview /toggle-preview home_remove_layout home_layout home_add_layout

There's an ini setting to stop the service on exit: In Everything , from the File menu, click Exit . From the Start menu, search for: notepad Right click Notepad and click Run as administrator . In Notepad , from the File menu, click Open . Select your Everything.ini in the same location as your Eve...

Thank you for the issue report tuska,

Everything is currently treating F10 as Alt + F10.

I will have this fixed in the next alpha update.

For now, please bind Alt + F10 to your File | Exit command command.

Thank you for your feedback nikov, Can you consider adding an option such that, new tabs/windows inherit settings from the config? To disable inheriting settings for new windows: In Everything 1.5 , from the Tools menu, click Options . Click the Advanced tab on the left. To the right of Show setting...

Good idea.

I will add a -restore-previous-session command line option and have the installer use this when restarting Everything.

Thank you for the suggestion.

Everything 1.4 uses the system iFilter to search html content. The stock iFilter on Windows will strip out all html tags. In Everything 1.4, please try the following search: utf8content :"<body id="quot:"gen"quot: ( use quot: to escape a literal double quote (") and use doub...

I forgot to mention here, you can override the default behavior. To set the default action when opening a search: 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: open search Select: open_search_action...

Upgrade completed.

Sorry for any down time.

Looks great!

Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for your feedback marcus, I will consider a MRU list / jumplist at the top of the result list. Sorting by run count kind-of does this already. (View -> Sort by -> Run count) You can set the run count by right clicking a file and clicking on Set run count. Opening a file from Everything wil...

I will consider keyboard chords. Thank you for the suggestion. For now, please consider Autohotkey and either: call Everything.exe with -command <id> -or- Send your Everything window a WM_COMMAND: SendMessage, 0x111, <command-id>,,, ahk_class EVERYTHING -command <id> Command IDs

To remove common system files from your Everything index:

In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
Click the Exclude tab on the left.
Check Exclude system files and folders.
Click Add Folder....
Select C:\Windows and click OK.
Click OK.

I am considering a search -> Match indexed properties option. Thank you for the suggestions. A better approach might be to fire up another instance just for your recycle bin: Start a Recycle Bin instance of Everything by running: Everything.exe -instance "Recycle Bin" Import your settings ...

Thank you for the issue report Marcelo Colina,

I will limit the search history text to 64 characters in the next alpha update.

Thank you for your feedback runmode, Setting the three time stamps in relation to each other does'nt work one step. For example, to set the date created, and the date modified to become the date created and the date accessed to become the date modified, it is necessary to call the dialogue 3 times m...

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