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froggie

As a start try this as a search (with regex under search on the menu NOT checked)

regex:"\.\w\w\w\.\w\w\w$"

froggie

@void
Isn't "noexact" the same as "nowfn" and is the default? Why would you need to specify it in the macro, other than clarity in the example?

froggie

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So, do we ever need asterisks?

Maybe in the middle of a string: "xxx*yyy"

But even in this case I would start with "xxx yyy" and see if there is a need to use a more complex search - often this will find what I need without creating a more complex search.

froggie

@terrypin But what exactly does "Match Whole Filename When Using Wildcards " mean? I'm using asterisks because I don't know the whole filename. You don't need the asterisks. Everything will match a search string wherever it appears. So "hf" will match "hf", "abchf&...

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Its the

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*anything*.

that does it.

Searching for *hf*.pdf and Checking Match Whole Filename When Using Wildcards (which is the same logical search) is instantaneous.

Of course just omitting the "*"

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hf ext:pdf

is also the same and instantaneous

froggie

Interesting.
I am getting about 10 seconds with that search.
Match whole word drops it to 3
removing the period or putting a space before it makes it about instantaneous

froggie

If you uncheck "Run in background" , Everything will end when you close the search window. However, it is generally more efficient to have one instance of Everything with multiple search windows if you need them (right click tray icon, new search window), rather than starting multiple copi...

froggie

Excel VBA supports both Regex and reading directories. Plenty of examples online. As much as I love Everything, It might be simplier & easier to just stay within Excel

froggie

What anti-virus are you using? More than one?
Can you try disabling anti-virus and then repeating the set Everything service to automatic & reboot test.

froggie

Would something like TreeSize Free help you? It will, as the name says, list the size of some or all of the folders on your drives. (There are many like it, this is the one I use the most)

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https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/comparison.shtml

froggie

Go to Search>>Organize Filters>>Document (for example)

At the bottom you can set a keyboard shortcut

Repeat for each filter of interest

froggie

Check box at Tools>>Options>>UI>>Full Row Select

froggie

Why *.mp3? Just .mp3 seems to have the same matches and it is much faster.

froggie

Thank you. That does the trick.

froggie

This is minor, and I should be able to fix it, but it has been far too many years since I wrote cmd scripts : I keep all my scripts in a directory that has a name similar to "Scripts & Programs & Such" . The ampersands make IndexThis fail. Do you know an easy way to escape the ampr...

froggie

That is exactly right (and well described). I tested it to refresh my memory. Note that when an account with administrator rights chooses "run as an administrator" windows puts up a prompt for permission before handing out the admin badge - it is not hidden (unless UAC has been turned off)...

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It is Interesting. It is really not proper for a process to write in another user's (admin) files. I did exit everything completely and made sure the service was stopped. I repeated the process, deleting everything.ini in appdata\roaming. Everything recreated everything.ini in my user's appdata\roam...

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If you enabled Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything , running as administrator will create a completely new Everything.ini in the userprofile of Administrator. That does not seem to be correct. Running as administrator should elevate process privilege to administrator, not change the loc...

froggie

You might try downloading the portable version of Everything - it is a zip file, no install required, just unzip and execute.

froggie

Very useful.
Works well with dupe: since the compare is only to the folder/sub-folders selected.
Nice code - made it easy to add additional ini parameters (more columns).

froggie

From the SDK Help:

The Everything SDK provides a DLL and Lib interface to Everything over IPC.

and further down

Requires "Everything" client to be running.

froggie

Am I missing something in the question? Just double click on an audio file and it opens in your default player, with the player controls visible if you have your player configured like that. I use VLC but I expect it will work like that for other players.

froggie

Everything works from memory all the time. Basically the file is used to save memory contents at shutdown and to reload memory at startup. That is one reason it is so fast, no database reads.

froggie

You might find this post helpful (scroll to the bottom)

viewtopic.php?t=5944

froggie

You have to re-establish the Windows file associations that File Viewer changed For example, to fix VLC associations: Open VLC, Select TOOLS from the Menu, then PREFERENCES, then INTERFACE Scroll down to the bottom, click SET UP ASSOCIATIONS. Select the file type you want VLC to play (You can click ...

froggie

I would think that defaulting to the "no crash" option would be best. A crash would leave most users clueless and result in either a support request here or dissatisfaction with Everything. Users may well be unaware of having very long paths and It is unlikely that they would look for an i...

froggie

Not when it is excluded, it will not be in the datavbase. Use a filter instead. Then if you want to search for it you can change to the EVERYTHING filter. see ( fourth item from top,Stamimail's post):
viewtopic.php?t=6817

froggie

try checking

search>match path

or use

path:d:

instead of

d:

froggie

Do you have

Tools>Options>General>UI>Focus Search on Activate

checked? If so, uncheck it, click apply and see if that helps.

froggie

To keep the tooltip that just shows when there is insufficient room to display a field but turn off the large extended tool tip with all of the details about a file, In search bar enter /show_detailed_listview_tooltips=0 and press enter. Set it to 1 to restore the tooltips. To turn off all tooltips:...

froggie

Yes it does, at least in the basic case. I have some issues with some of the other parameters and "remember" but I have not yet spent enough time with them to ask about them.

: Capture.JPG (53.38 KiB) Viewed 4674 times

: Capture2.JPG (14.2 KiB) Viewed 4674 times

froggie

If you make the bookmark a macro (by adding a name in the the macro field of the bookmark, e.g. test), you can then add the macro to your search (e.g. test:)

froggie

Try

Everything.exe -db \\server\EverythingDB\Everything.db -read-only

and read this post

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7615&p=25648&hilit= ... nly#p25648

froggie

Could you have a filter set? Under Search, which entry has the bullet next to it?

froggie

This is great. Very useful.

Could you please add the contents of this post to the online help?

froggie

I don't see where the functions for renaming are documented. Are there others besides $lowercase and $uppercase?

froggie

and please do add more option for donations, only limited people have access to PayPal. You don't need a PayPal account to donate, just following the Donate with PayPal links and you will be given the choice of using a credit card. PayPal is just the processor, no account required, although it is a...

froggie

How about:

.lnk content:pdf

as a starting point

froggie

Do you have a 32 bit install of Windows?

Try download Installer instead of Download Installer-64 Bit in the link from Void.

froggie

Everything uses PCRE in non-Javascript mode

https://www.pcre.org/original/doc/html/pcrepattern.html

Would be nice to have this information in Everything Help, maybe under "advanced Regex"

froggie

http://gamon.webfactional.com/regexnume ... generator/

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I am a little confused about Use Alt + Left and Alt + Right to back and forward through search history. In the Help it says alt + up/down In the Options>keyboards is shows Search All History alt + up/down Search History blank Tests show alt + left / right scrolls the history from the current session...

froggie

If your folder names are just one word (no spaces, dashes, etc), as your examples are, then turning on

Search>Match Whole Word ]

would do it

froggie

Is the date modified date correct when you look with Windows explorer?

froggie

The WaybackMachine (web.archive.org) preserves copies of voidtools.com. You may be able to get downloads from there.

froggie

Thanks.

VOID -

It is a bit worrisome that Everything seems to have been bypassing UAC elevation control somehow. Probably not enough info to diagnose but still.....

froggie

Would you kindly do me a favor and still run the windows explorer test? I would really like to know if Everything has some failure mode where it bypasses Windows UAC security or if it is just turned off on your system.

froggie

What happens when you run this same test from windows explorer, instead of everything

froggie

That's fine, you are not running as admin. Now try this: in everything, search for c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe double click cmd.exe in the result list, a cmd (dos) window should open type FSUTIL at the c:\Windows\System32> prompt do you get a message "The FSUTIL utility requires that you have a...

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To see if Everything is running as an administrator, type /debug and then press enter. The debug window will open and a few lines from the top will have an entry IsAdmin 0 or 1 (you may have to push the scroll bar on the right to the top to see the first few lines) If the value is "1" then...

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