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so, let me tell you a story... i woke up at 4:AM, dripping with sweat & the world said, inclusive, INCLUSIVE & i shouted No! i am me, & no one else is me! distinct: DISTINCT:! so, let me tell you a story... the other day my cat got bit (by something) & he was OK, just bleeding a bit ...

CLCL is clipboard caching utility.

Though I've used that used for years (& the program is unchanged since, 2022/12/1).

And that said...

(just noting...) i am really not liking where Everything has become more "accurate" because as i'm apt to use DISTINCT: (or similar) regularly, & might or might not have it enabled in particular windows/tabs, so when i make a change & jump to a different window/tab & don't see ...

A quirky way to update just one folder is to apply and remove the read-only attribute.

the Attribute change hack on a NO-size NO-date file
did work to restore its' size & date (in Everything)
(& without necessitating a Reindex)

I'm curious, how do you open/view this db?

Simply set up an -instance for it.
(I was only interested in seeing "historical" data, what is or is not there, & not to make any changes.)

GO-HOME-15.BAT:

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cmd /c start .\everything.exe -instance HOME -read-only -no-auto-include

Everything 1370 CUT/PASTE bug (& i never looked at 1368/1369) OH i wonder (now) if it isn't just some actions, some times, are not updating what is DISPLAYED? cause the last time i ran into this CUT/PASTE that did not, at that point i reverted to 1367, & loaded up the same tabs, & CUT th...

(There is also the [Everything.exe] -save-db switch which will cause the .db to be saved to disk should you not want to actually exit Everything at a particular time [& during which time the disk .db may then not otherwise be [as] current as that stored in RAM]. Did that just this morning to bri...

quotes.bat, Quotes in a Batch file (& I've actually got what were two different batch files quote in the code below). (I'll just leave the whole thing in a CODE, & take from it what you will.) QUOTES.BAT: :: quotes.bat :: 02-28-2024 SjB :: let me quote, don't you just hate quotes :: let me q...

Not too clear on what you have, what you're getting, & what you want. Anyhow, FASTI7.BAT: 777 x %* -o* %2 %3 %4 :: with %2 %3, you can do something like :: 777 x *.zip -o* *.exe *.chm :: which would ONLY extract .exe & .chm :: files from the .zip, rather then (by :: default) ALL files... :: ...

Yes. In order for it to work (in all situations I've come up with - so far), I had to: add quotes ;-) & also that squiggly thing, ~ So, "%%~i" (or "%%~fi" is fine too) vs. %%i (no quotes nor ~). :: hashmediastream.BAT :: 02-25-2023 SjB @echo off goto start: :: 02-27-2023 notn...

(I'll just note that as I also have a T: drive, I'll wait on this.)

It's always good (IMO) to have dated backups of your .db.

There are various Export options, though what might or might not be included, unsure without testing.

Note that during development, there is a chance that the .db format changes, necessitating a re-index if that were to occur.

Batch files, grrrr ;-). And if not "quotes", it is (parens). One, or the other, or both, doesn't matter. Don't think it is about the quotes this time. It's always about the quotes (& batch files) ;-). So you wrote: for %%x in (%*) do (echo "%%~fx" & echo ffmpeg.exe parms...

Version?

I'd think, most likely a shell extension or something to do with thumbnails.

There are options to disable, but specifics elude me at the moment.
Search for 'disable shell extension' & see if something comes up.

it's still visible in everything

That's abnormal, unless you've specifically made (non-default) changes to

Tools | Options | Indexes -> NTFS

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(And assuming we're talking about an NTFS drive).

ES.exe, -no-result-error Wanting a batch file that searches the current directory tree, with Everything (hopefully), & if Everything is not available, falls back to a DIR search. Over time, I started with DIR, then substituted Everything. Is there a more efficient method then in my latest iterat...

the current sort

Just to note, that also includes Advanced Sort (but the 2 [or 3] sorts selections are AND'ed to determine the sort dupe_lines).
(So if you Advanced Sort; Size & Path, that would find duplicated size files, dupe_lines'd - within the same directory.)

will apply the case function to all the text when the new format edit does not have focus Explain? 1. 2 files selected 2. F2 (Rename). At this point, is focus not in the new format edit box? 3. selecting uppercase 4. again new format appears to show that focus is still in the new format edit box (t...

also had to refresh the database as always

"As always", is not expected.

(Now it could be that the particular areas are "protected" ?, so by default Everything might not have sufficient permissions [to delete], but one would expect changes to be seen.)

A quirky way to update just one folder is to apply and remove the read-only attribute.

Is that to the folder itself, or to a file within the folder?
Is it the R/O specifically that is needed, or might some other action (like a file rename) trigger the quirk?

Everything will show empty size and dates if the volume goes offline unexpectedly. To clarify (if it needs it) the, "go offline unexpectedly". The drive goes "offline" only upon wakening from sleep. It is either seen, or not. (I'm guessing that it is too slow to spin up, sometim...

When I was messing with this, I ran into another high (25%, 1of4 cores), prolonged CPU spell (though it did resolve itself).
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Sorting a column - does not (sort) if distinct: & count: are both used. (unique:, also, & I'll suppose some others too.) > PATH | !PUNC, enabled [immaterial] Search: distinct: count:36 if you go to sort on a column header /something/ does seem to happen, but at least the results do not /disp...

yes, pidl change certainly makes a difference
30.sec vs. 2.min

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TimeThis :  Command Line :  PAUSE
TimeThis :    Start Time :  Tue Feb 20 20:50:59 2024
TimeThis :      End Time :  Tue Feb 20 20:51:28 2024
TimeThis :  Elapsed Time :  00:00:28.748

I take it that nothing on F: is found at all?

Depending on how F: is formatted, & how it is recognized (fixed or removable), you may need to manually add the F: drive to your index.

Tools | Options | Indexes, then FAT / NTFS ... as appropriate.

Correct, any of the Ctrl+F-like searches.
Not the searchbar.

Should a search <string> in 1 tab apply to all tabs? (Now thinking, probably not.) FAYT (find as you type) [aka, search_for_text_when_you_start_typing] should a search string in 1 tab apply to all tabs such that if you search for 'red' in 1 tab Ctrl+TAB then, F3 would search for 'red' in that next t...

1367: Crash Out of the blue, shortly after awakening from sleep. And after a bit, had gone to interact with Everything (for the first time since awakening), & crash. Uptime had been about 1 week. (This is unrelated to the drag & drop post.) (And as far as that goes, after the crash & [Ev...

1367... messing, i went to 100% CPU

Wasn't able to duplicate.
I've never seen that before. And overall system performance didn't seem to be affected, particularly. Anyhow.
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(Before I saw above, & I tested against 1358 - because it was there .) video: distinct: count:18000 drag&drop from Everything into mpv.net 1358: 9.790 seconds 1367: 10.294 seconds so... it's the same it must have just been the (new) "wording", & the progress meter that made it ...

1367 Seems like... if no extension, then OK dumy | hithereyouswine if 1 no extension & 1 extension, then OK dumy | abc.txt if different extension & same name-part, then OK dumy.txt | dumy.doc if different extension & different name-part & ignore extension, then OK dumy.txt | abc.doc ...

(The image, above, didn't show for me, so, https://i.imgur.com/D2LtzAZ.png.)

the thousand part were slightly dimmed

Any examples of programs that do that?

Drag & Drop From Everything Seems Slow(er) then I remember. Everything 1367 (highlight) & drag 18K (Randomize) items (into mpv.net ) was slow, showing: - "Buiding item list..." i don't recall seeing anything like that before (& not uncommon for me to drag & drop a large lis...

!size: !size:0 - is that the best way to find NOT-size'd files? !date: - ditto As it happened, these NOT files only existent on H:, only the most recent set of files, the particular set of files, that i'd been working with. (Also 4 files were listed from in E:/system volume information/ but i'm sure...

1367: Size & Date Missing (Part II) Everything 1367 (of 02/08/2024) i hit <CR> on a file (to open it) & Size & Date, disappeared absolutely nothing out of the ordinary total size 0, calculated in 0.000001 seconds A rename did NOT change anything (Size & Date still missing). (Nor did ...

Search (menu item)

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Is this that Everything Service? Yes. (At least most likely.) The Service "typically" would use a couple MB of RAM. (Depending on the tool you use to look, if using the "right" tool, you should be able to distinguish between an Everything GUI & an Everything Service. Process...

(At some point in time) distinct: became (even more) more distinct:. In the past, if you had a distinct: search, there were times when that list of files "updated", like if a new file matching the search criteria was created. (I'm actually assuming it was something like that that caused a ...

Search (menu item), ensure that Match Diacritics is not enabled.

Oh, forgot, aside from the install issue itself, if you were to download the ZIP version, that will unzip & run for you?

What topics are those?
I'll assume the .chm only relates to Everything 1.4 (& is apt to be outdated at that).

For 1.5 specific features, kind of have to peruse the forums, more likely then not.
(There was a fellow, but I'm thinking it's kind of a never ending, fluid task...)

SafeBIOS (from the little I looked) seems to do a hash compare of the BIOS, "to the cloud", so not sure why that would impact things?

Does (Windows) Event Viewer contain any clues?

SecureBIOS or SafeBIOS?
(I see the latter, but not the former.
https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/ ... asheet.pdf)

If I may ask, what is a "System.Generic.Integer"?
Is it, System.Generic Class?
And just what are these integer numbers that voids example returns & why for the items listed?

I deleted a folder containing 24 files Directory name & sample file names? Are you sure you're looking at the "deleted" directory & not some other similarly named directory? Does Windows Explorer or an actual file manager see said directory & files? From within Everything, if ...

Maybe it does - if the above (GUI) setting is enabled?
(And then removed, altogether, if the GUI setting is disabled?)

distinct: (I think it is) could find files that exist in the filelist but not... or would it?
Hmm... not sure now?

Might also depend on just how you open the file list; i.e., File | Open File List vs. using -file-list switch?

File size & date lost after Rename (& out of the blue). (And not really concerned, simply noting, & haven't seen anything like it in ages.) all i did was to prefix the filenames (with 069801x - ) so nothing special 4 files affected, 2 on T:, 2 on W: the first pair just "worked"...

Guessing it is the (Everything.ini) setting,

app_data=

& would be the same as in the GUI,

Options | General -> Store settings and date in %APPDATA%\Everything

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