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jimspoon

Thank you therube, that is a very good idea.

jimspoon

The experimental version Everything 1.5 Alpha provides the ability to Ctrl+V paste a file to multiple selected folders or object parents, but a distinct file is created in each folder. Perhaps @void could include an option to create hard/symbolic links to the source file instead of discrete copies....

jimspoon

Say you want to paste hard links to the same file in multiple folders scattered across your volume. Everything provides a good way to quickly find destination folders using the folder: modifier. But the only way I know how to do this is using Link Shell Extension. LSE will allow you to paste a hard ...

jimspoon

That's great, Void! Is the sha256 calculation persistent so that it doesn't have to be recalculated if that search is repeated?

jimspoon

Thanks all for the great information and links!

jimspoon

While ADS can, and in my opinion should, be read in from the NTFS $MFT (fast) and treated as distinct objects (like files and folders). Everything only collects attributes/properties/metadata, such as checksum hashing, on distinct objects. ADS are currently only treated as a property or metadata, n...

jimspoon

No, writers of ADS stream can preserve the modification date. At least I do so. For example, a tag system which changes the original file modification date would be almost useless. That's good to know. I guess it depends entirely on the tool being used. When I used 7-zip to add an ADS to a file, th...

jimspoon

And as far as date goes, it certainly cannot be used as any sort of equivalency - except for date itself. What I meant was, if you have two files with identical hashes, but different modification dates, that could be a sign that the files are not in fact really identical, e.g. that an ADS was added...

jimspoon

I was wondering if duplicate files could be quickly identified by generating and storing checksums for all files. I saw a response that this would be too much of a burden on system resources, particularly with respect to files that are constantly changing. This seems like a good point with respect t...

jimspoon

What if you have two files with identical primary data streams, but one of the files has an alternate data streams? Will a checksum generator show the same checksum for both files? I made a copy of a file and then added an ADS to one of the two files. Nirsoft Hashmyfiles still shows the same checksu...

jimspoon

I see already on the todo list "work area sidebar to temporarily store drag drop files." My suggestion is similar - a pane or drop target for copy / move / shortcut / hardlink etc from the results list. The target folder also be set by drag/drop from the results list - perhaps a drag and d...

jimspoon

Thanks for posting that ... very interesting. I'd never heard of the Windows Overlay Filter before. Sounds like a good reason not to mess with your recovery partition!

jimspoon

Thank you Void. Like others in this thread I'm interested in using Everything to catalog files in multiple offline volumes (on hard drives, optical discs etc). I'd like to be able to use a single search to find files on multiple offline volumes at once, and see which disks and volumes the found file...

jimspoon

If a file list is included in the Everything index, would properties for files in the list be indexed? As I understand it, EFU files include only very basic information for files, and if the listed files are offline there wouldn't be a way to fetch their properties until the volume is online.

jimspoon

good to know, thanks!

jimspoon

I often wished that I could know where I downloaded a certain image from. Little did I know it's there in the ZoneIdentifier stream, as follows: [ZoneTransfer] ZoneId=3 ReferrerUrl=https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/pan/6a28000/6a28800/6a28800r.jpg HostUrl=https://tile.loc.gov/storage...

jimspoon

According to the 7zip help file, "Current version of 7-Zip can store NTFS alternate streams only to WIM archives." So I tried a command to add a file with its ADS to a WIM file. Then I was able to list the file and the ADS inside the WIM file - see below. C:\Users\jimsp\Documents\adstest>7...

jimspoon

It works perfectly! And I was able to configure OpenWithPlusPlus to do it immediately from the file's context menu:

jimspoon

p.s. I used Ctrl+Shift+C in Everything to copy a file's complete path, and then tried pasting it into the 7zfm address bar. Oddly enough 7zfm won't let you do that. You can only paste a path to a folder, not the complete path to a file including the filename.

jimspoon

Right now it seems that 7zfm.exe (7-zip file manager) is the best GUI option for adding and viewing Alternate Data Streams. Highlight a file in 7zfm, then select File > Alternate Data Streams. Alt+F, A will do the trick. It can also be done from the right-click menu. The pane will then display the s...

jimspoon

If you delete a junction, the target folder is not deleted, and the contents of the target folder are not deleted. Just the junction is deleted. So it figures that you could also move or cut/paste a junction to another location. The target folder would not be affected, and the junction to it would j...

jimspoon

Link Shell Extension is great! But in my attempts to send hardlinks to multiple folders scattered across the volume, I've discovered some oddities: 1. Right-click source file(s) > Pick Link Source to get source path(s). Right-click destination folder > Drop As > Hardlink. Hardlink is dropped. Now ri...

jimspoon

Thanks! It works. Paths copied with Ctrl+Shift+C now have trailing backslashes, and when pasted into File LIst Editor, are recognized as folders:

jimspoon

When I first open an Everything window, I notice that in the Folders Sidebar Treeview, the root item "Everything" is not highlighted. Also the Subfolders checkbox is not checked. And the Search Results pane returns all indexed items matching the search in the address bar. But if I select a...

jimspoon

I pressed Ctrl+Shift+C the paths of selected folders, but when I pasted them in the file list editor, FLE treated them as Files, not Folders. That's because the pasted paths did not have trailing backslashes. When I added the trailing backslahses, FLE recognized them as paths to Folders, not files. ...

jimspoon

I'm trying to think of a good way to gather folders from various locations into a single place so I can use those multiple folders as a drop target, e.g. for a copy or hardlinking operation (copies or hardlinks to go into each of the selected folders). I don't know of a better way, so I thought I mi...

jimspoon

I have been moving and hard linking the same files to multiple destination folders. At least with the methods I have been using, this is much more laborious than it should be! The main problem is finding/displaying all the destination folders. It seems that Everything could provide the perfect solut...

jimspoon

It's cool that the donations page has a list of donations. I'm glad to see that quite a few people are donating! I just kicked in a little more to support this amazing project. I hope many more will do the same.

https://www.voidtools.com/donate/

jimspoon

I hope the paid project pays you a LOT !! You deserve it and thanks for Everything. Pun intended!

jimspoon

I need to look at V a bit more closely. It seemed to have some interesting and unusual features not common in file managers. But ... I might be mistaken, but I couldn't find a "preview pane" like we're used to ... so to view a file you have to open it in a separate viewer window.

jimspoon

That would be amazing! Perhaps you could have a regular mode and a stream mode, to hide or show the streams in the results list. Hopefully the contents of the stream would appear in the Preview Pane. And ideally a way to edit the contents and write back to the existing stream. But just seeing the st...

jimspoon

Now that I am reminded how we can make use of alternate data streams within Everything, I'm thinking, what are the best tools for getting metadata into streams, viewing, and managing the streams? With support for "bulk" operations. What file managers provide the best tools for this? I foun...

jimspoon

Thanks, I had forgotten this! Even though I had posted about this INI setting!

jimspoon

Would it be possible to make a property / column out of a specific named data stream? Each metadata field could be stored in its own named data stream (there doesn't seem to be any tight limit on the number of streams a file can have). Would be great to be able to search and sort on such fields. Rig...

jimspoon

I wanted to include a Camera Model column in my search results and be able to sort by it. In the properties / column lists in Everything, Camera Model appears both under Everything properties and Windows Property System properties. I thought, maybe it's better to use the Windows Property System prop...

jimspoon

After retrieving the list of possible duplicate files using sizefilelist1:, the list can be very large, and it will be very helpful to be able hop through the list using F3 (Find Next) to find files in the directory of interest - because the list will have to be sorted by size to see files against t...

jimspoon

Thanks! I understand now.

jimspoon

Just experimenting, I tried this command in admin-mode powershell (with everything64.exe in my Path): PS C:\> everything64 -s ext:pdf -create-file-list pdffiles.efu No .efu was generated. I guess the -create-file-list use the search results of the -s option as the files to go into the named .efu fil...

jimspoon

Thanks! I tried out a sizefilelist1: search and it works perfectly.

jimspoon

That would be very useful!

jimspoon

void wrote: ↑Fri Apr 22, 2022 8:18 am I will look into ways to make this easier.

Perhaps this could be done using the existing "Search for Size" option which appears when we right-click the Size column header. Selecting this option could add an OR search of the selected items' values in the Size column.

jimspoon

Thank you Meteorquake, you have outlined important considerations when one is weeding out duplicate files. You are right that a content comparison is the safest route and dedicated duplicate search tools are often the best. The advantage of Everything, of course, is its blazing speed. The dedicated ...

jimspoon

Thank you David that is a great solution, and I really appreciate you taking the time to outline those steps. It's great that we can paste many lines containing search terms and Everything will group each line and construct an OR search of those groups. I can imagine many possible uses for this tech...

jimspoon

Say I had a list of duplicate files from different paths, sorted by file size, and I am looking for files that are dupes of files in a specific folder. It would help if I could search in the results list for a string from that path, and then repeat that search using the F3 key, as can be done in som...

jimspoon

Why don't find your dupes, then sort all files by Path so you can multi-select all the files from the bad path, then sort by Size so you can see them side-by-side again with their duplicates from the other location. My problem is that I have so many files indexed that my total number of duplicates ...

jimspoon

I'd like to be able to see a list of duplicate files, limited to the files in a particular path (e.g. onedrive\downloads) together with their duplicates, whereever the duplicates are located. Sorted by file size so that the files and their duplicates will appear next to each other. I've tried the me...

jimspoon

Earlier I posted info about DROID, a program that examines the contents of files and identifies what kind of files they are. I should have posted that in this Off-topic discussion board. Anyway I just stumbled on another possibly relevant link. DROID is an effort by the UK Public Record Office but t...

jimspoon

I found a great utility to give visual feedback of mouse clicks and more. This is particularly useful if you want to make a screencast, to send to Void or anybody else. It is Key-n-Stroke. I really like that it is a single EXE file and requires no installation. https://github.com/Phaiax/Key-n-Stroke...

jimspoon

That was it! Changing the Inactive Selected color fixed the problem. Not a bug! One other point of interest. if I click in the Preview Pane and make it active, pressing Tab once makes the Search bar active. Pressing Tab a second time returns the highlight to the selected item in the Results List and...

jimspoon

I am viewing EML files in Everything. When I click in the Preview Pane to highlight some text in the EML, the highlight on the current item in the results list (details view) disappears, and there doesn't seem to be any way to make it reappear. I tried hiding the Preview Pane but that didn't make it...

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