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My screen shot is pretty old.

This is what it looks like now:

I have updated the Properties page.

Please use the following to ignore case and diacritics:

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Name = Content with Count
Search = content:search:   addcol:A   A-label:="Content Count"   A:=STRINGCOUNT(REMOVEDIACRITICS(LOWER($content:)),REMOVEDIACRITICS(LOWER(search:)))
Macro = cc<search>

Ideally, you will be able to recover a previous search where the Everything process ended unexpectedly. (eg: power loss) If the session was created on close, these searches would be lost. Everything schedules the session to be saved after each change to your search. This can only occur once every 15...

More information here:

Finding duplicates in Everything 1.5

ES "32387 ext:pdf" -export-txt "out.txt"

ES - Command Line Interface

-restore-hidden-window

There's no such option yet.

Are you expecting your hidden window to be restored and a new tab created?

You are running Everything in portable mode. The Everything Service will be pulling this setting too. Please exit Everything (File -> Exit) Stop the Everything Service (Ctrl + Shift + ESC -> Task Manager -> Services -> Right click Everything -> Stop Service) Restart Everything. See if Everything is ...

monitor_thread_mode_background comes with a warning. Enabling can severely reduce the update performance of Everything. I will likely remove monitor_thread_mode_background as it causes more issues than it helps. There's only one monitoring thread. I will consider a system and non-system thread. The...

Your Session.json is renamed to Session.backup.json when you start Everything.

The Session.json is only created when your current session is dirty (when you manually change the search)

To create a session.json:
Launch Everything.
Change the search.
Exit Everything.

Ah, I am 99% sure it's from enabling Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> monitor_thread_mode_background

Please set this option to false.

When this option is enabled, Everything will only monitor your drives when they are idle.

Your C: will likely never be idle.

Thank you for the logs.

I see Everything is regathering the free disk size for your root folders every second.

This might prevent Everything from updating.

Could you please try removing Free Disk Size from Tools -> Options -> Properties and see if the issue persists.

The above should work.

Please make sure Regular expressions is unchecked under the Search menu.

Does the following find any results:

parentname:abc

After closing your search window and when no windows are visible and you run: Everything.exe -explorer c:\windows -new-tab Are you expecting your hidden window to be restored and a new tab created? Does Everything need a command line option to restore your hidden windows? so you can call: Everything...

Please try the following command:

$exec("C:\Program Files $(x86$)\XYplorer\XYplorer.exe" "$parent(%1)")

The quotes need to be on the outside of $parent()

Only basic file information and indexed properties are listed in this context menu.

You will need to click Add columns... and select Length.

-or-

Index Length under Tools -> Options -> Properties.

To stop the Everything Service on exit: Exit Everything (File -> Exit) Open your Everything-1.5a.ini in the same location as your Everything64.exe Change the following line: stop_service_on_exit=0 to: stop_service_on_exit=1 Save changes and restart Everything. Everything will now stop the Everything...

There's currently no option to prevent subfolders from a path search. Please try the following searches: abc*\* parentname:abc* Search -> Match path will match the full path and name. Please consider creating a filter: From the Search menu, click Add to filters... Change the Name to: Parent Name Sta...

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...

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