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With NTFS formatted volumes, you can specify any real existing directory as a mount point on another drive, such as C:. When the drive is plugged in and the volume is mounted, that directory becomes the drive volume and is populated with its contents virtually. This is called a "mount point&quo...

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Is it possible to have Everything display mp3 album cover thumbnails while in Thumbnail View? ffprobe example Input #0, mp3, from 'filename.mp3': Metadata: encoder : Lavf58.76.100 Duration: 00:03:39.79, start: 0.023021, bitrate: 187 kb/s Stream #0:0: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 128 kb/s Meta...

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A seemingly popular "Home" search query is the term, root:, which shows you the list of loaded volumes (ie, drive letters).

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The Alpha is officially released (as experimental), but it's quite stable and most of us on the forum uses it.

Since I've been using 1.5 for so long, I can no longer answer questions about 1.4 because it's so obsolete.

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You don't have to use "Folder Indexing." Each NTFS volume has the ability to specify what is indexed, and there is an Exclusion section as well that applies to all volumes (old and new/future). 99.9% of all Administrator-sensitive files are located on the C: drive. Automatically added exte...

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There is no such thing as selection sorting. At least this is the first I've heard any mention of the concept.

Shift+Click will do Secondary Sort for any column header clicked.

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The content you index has to go somewhere. A database is created, loaded into ram and stored for later reference. This will make searching for content faster at the expense of utilizing more computer resources. If you need to purchase additional ram or hard disk space, these are not terribly difficu...

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In the meanwhile, you can indeed disable rename from getting in your way.

In the search bar, type the following command and press Enter:
/allow_rename=0

You won't be able to use the click-to-rename, F2, nor Advanced Rename features from within Everything until you change the value back to 1.

raccoon

I would suggest not worrying about system logs. They may be zeroed out by Windows on purpose, or perhaps you are loading Everything without the necessary permissions to access these files (don't have the Everything system service loaded, or As Administrator, maybe.) Exclude the log files from your s...

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I guess I disagree. An advanced file management, search, copy, rename, sharing and presentation utility like Everything should definitely give the user ready control over the ability to preserve and protect their work from accidental and unauthorized modification. The only software available today i...

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It looks like exFAT also uses LocalTime and not UTC, with extension UtcOffset fields which may or may not contain an offset value (index of 15-minute increments) to aid with translation to UTC. Cameras and other embedded devices are unlikely to utilize this field, and I don't know if special API are...

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(Please note that FAT filesystems do not store the time in UTC but in localtime, and so translations between timezones or UTC do not compute to the actual historic moment in time, since there is no telling the offset or locale or regional DST month/day).

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Alternately type filelist1: then hit F2. No mouse needed.

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You can do dupe:name,size,dm and you can combine it with dc:=dm: as its own separate term, so that all results have to have a duplicate name, duplicate size, and duplicate date-modified... as well as the date-modified has to be the same as date-created. dupe:name,size,dm dc:=dm: to exclude folders, ...

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I would love the idea of @void adding a bunch of power features right at our fingertips, without having to write a bunch of batch files and manually editing the registry. One thing I would find useful is the ability to quickly toggle a volume and disk to READONLY, that is, partition and volume heade...

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Related thread -> viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12275

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Not sure what happened, but the default columns in Everything 1.4 and in 1.5 are Name, Path, Size, etc... There is nothing to inhibit nor prohibit this arrangement. Try deleting (or renaming) your settings file, then restart the program.

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My one thought to contribute. If you have a set of column headers that you like as a default, you should set them up in your Options > General > Home > Column: settings. Every time you open a new Everything window, you will be presented with your default columns just the way you like it. No frustrat...

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Biff, I think you're stuck on a very simple thing, that @void already said he's going to fix in a (maybe the next?) future version. CURRENTLY, you need to Edit your bookmark TWICE. That means 2 times. And 2 times you shall edit your bookmark. 1. The first time you edit the bookmark, you have to set ...

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I mean, that sounds more like a hint that it's time to retire and enjoy the warm glow of your sunset years, than an actual flaw in the software. ;) Manually editing the ini/settings via notepad or command are considered "for expert users only" and "advanced tinkering and hacking,"...

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In that case, I will just adamantly disagree and discourage @void from making in any change to this behavior. If you want to see what the current value is for a setting, omit the "=" sign entirely. Resist the urge to type it. If you want to change the value of a setting, then go ahead and ...

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I too like the [spoiler] code. And if we're adding phpBB extensions, one that collects Likes / Reactions would also be nifty as I would like to leave an acknowledgement of having read a post without actually replying as such. A Like can serve the context of appreciation, agreement or simple show of ...

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I'm confused. Isn't the purpose of supplying a naked (no value) "=" after any setting supposed to revert the setting to its default value? Wouldn't the requirement of a value prevent this?

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See the thread viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12281 by Biff » Tue Nov 15, 2022

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I too am curious how Everything arrives at the values it does for a volume's USN Journal. I'd also like to know the practical effect of larger and smaller values and how this changes performance and behavior. I wonder if Everything should automatically handle these values itself through observation ...

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We have a new feature to automatically stop the Everything service when the Everything client is exited. Is that the behavior you're describing?

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Does the program titlebar say "[Administrator]" at the top?

Are all of your indexes located in the Indexes > NTFS section, and nowhere else?

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Would it be reasonable / user friendly to make all DATE datatype columns/variables automatically support a *-UTC suffex? $dm-utc: Would it be reasonable / user friendly to make all DATE datatype columns/variables automatically support a parameter for specifying format? or would that interfere with m...

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I think it would be nifty if search terms were wrapped inside of graphical bubbles to indicate their distinctness, much in the way web forum tagging creates bubbles, or the Windows Explorer address bar creates bubbles for each folder element in the path.

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anmac1789 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 08, 2022 5:59 pm
FORMAT_FILETIME_UTC(filetime,[format]) - format a windows filetime in UTC
How do I use this?

See this post. -> viewtopic.php?f=12&t=12267#p50709

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void wrote: ↑Thu Dec 08, 2022 5:50 am Use double quotes to escape a literal ;
For example:
extension:";"
name:"file;name;with;semicolons.txt"

@void, does this affect the following example as given on this post...

path:"C:\Path1\;C:\Path Two\;D:\Media\" .csv

raccoon

UTC time conversion is now possible.

raccoon

thanks!

(Do you mean YYYYMMDDTHHmmss or yyyyMMddHHmmss in your above examples? Seems you're copying from the ISO document.)

raccoon

Simple answer to your question about fast sort: If you don't enable those, you will have to wait several seconds when clicking on those column headers on-demand. If you find yourself sorting any of those columns, then you definitely want them.

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Another option is to Exclude certain folders that you do not wish to be indexed. Look under Options > Indexes > Exclude. Add these entries, and any others you no longer wish to see: System Volume Information $RECYCLE.BIN RECYCLER RECYCLED Feel free to add other system and software folders that will ...

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<C:\Path1\|"C:\Path Two\"|D:\Media\> .csv Your setting under Options > General > Search > Operator precedence: [OR > AND]/[AND > OR] is going to determine how spaces and pipes are grouped when no angle brackets are both used -- angle brackets will allow you to force precedence for groupin...

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On further thought, the pixel offset ideas seems pretty dumb. I guess it's pretty fine the way it is, and animating the thumbnail slots seems like a lot of work.

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If you're not using the computer's built-in card reader slot(s), then just go ahead and unplug it from the USB headers (on board). Or, you can disable the device from device manager. That way it won't ghost up in the future.

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Someone else has already created a thread of bookmarks that they share. If you want to add to it, or create your own post as a personal public diary, I see no reason why not. I have one kicking around somewhere that I haven't updated in a while. Just bookmark it so you don't lose track.

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why do you bookmark a one time command ?? 👀.. ! is a special value which flips the setting from on to off and off to on. asamirid, I save these to spread the good word and gospel to other users as it arises. And so I can remember what strange settings I'm using that deviate from vanilla Everything....

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I tend to agree with your observation that Everything should consolidate "Search as you type" to predictably fast results, and forego predictably slow results. I don't know what those metrics should look like, but I commented previously [1] [2] on this point that complex searches can becom...

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How can I view and edit all these macros afterwards? The searchbar command /define will briefly show the names of all defined macros in the statusbar. The searchbar command about:ini will open an Explorer window to your Everything settings files, including Macros csv. A search for macros csv will s...

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Bro, there is nothing wrong with how ext: works. It is also a core component of how all other Everything features work, from Filters to Index Exclusions. ext: needs to be wholeword and not a partial substring match. You have other options at your disposal, but most of your posts read as blatant and ...

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Is there a feature to enable smooth scrolling in thumbnail view, such that the thumbnail boxes will glide up and down the screen? The current fixed cubbyhole boxes are a bit disorienting to me, especially when scrolling in Extra Large Thumbnail view or when Everything is resized to a small corner of...

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I really like this. Wish I had known about it sooner!

Bookmarked: /thumbnail_view_header=!

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Void has responded to other posts about this stating that context menu restructuring is on his to-do list, and in the mean time you should use third party tools to manage your windows explorer context menu if it is cluttered.

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I hope both of your questions are answered in the two web links at the bottom of my previous post. Let me know if not.

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Did you ever plug in a CD-R or DVD-R drive? Windows allows you to "copy" files to an optical media device, which holds them in temporary bondage until you actually insert a blank disc to burn those files. Search google for "Files waiting to be burned to disc" I still use Win7 pri...

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Just go with whatever you think would feel most natural to most users. If it's a date-type search term, then I guess any indexed property of date-type would qualify... whether Created, Modified, Accessed, Changed, Taken, (Content Created), (Media Crated), etc. If the search term is a size-type, then...

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