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When you click Search "Everything"... from My Computer Windows passes a empty path. "Everything" also handles empty strings in the command line incorrectly. I have improved the handling of empty strings for the next release. I have added support right clicking My Computer to my &...

I am currently implementing custom file lists..

Custom file lists will make indexing network drives a lot easier...

Search history has been implemented for the next release.
The option to open "Everything" from a single click from the tray icon has also been implemented for the next release.

You can test this now with the latest alpha release.

1.2.1.371 is the latest official release. 1.2.1.451a is the latest alpha release. 452a is an unofficial alpha release with some memory alignment changes. Update notifications will only work for official releases. Are your USB drives NTFS or FAT32? "Everything" will only index NTFS volumes....

The problem is caused by starting an application with execute in a separate thread enabled. To disable execute in a separate thread: In " Everything ", from the Tools menu, click Options . Click the View tab. In the Advanced Settings , under the General folder, uncheck Execute in a separat...

When I double click or press enter over an image, the windows image viewer(the default image viewer of the windows) close and open. This make the operation slow." I forgot to say: in the Everything-1.2.1.371.exe, the problem did not occur. In this version, the image viewer did not close before...

As suspected, the file system is corrupt. You can see from the debug output all your folders are missing parent folders. I would recommend you Make a backup of the drive. Run Check Disk. Make sure you make a backup first as Check Disk will most likely mangle your folder names and file names. To run ...

"Everything" requires administrative privileges for low level access to volumes.

I wish to ask if its possible to avoid this behavior, perhaps by allowing the search to go on/keeping the program responsive while the indexing is going on and/or reveal the results as they become available in the database? The only possible way with 1.2.1.371 would be to edit the Everything.ini fi...

I think that would be great if put buttons for active and deactivate volumes. "Everything" will need to rescan all volumes if you make any changes to which volumes are included. It might be easier and faster to use the NOT operator (!) to exclude a folder from your search. For example, to...

It might be easier to do this with shortcuts? You can specify the start-up search string in the "Everything" shortcut with the -search command line option. To change the search string when opening "Everything" from a shortcut: Right click the shortcut . Click Properties Change th...

Finishing the "Everything" deskband is on my "Things to do" list.

The option to customize the context menus is on my "Things to do" list.

Thanks for your suggestion.

Please try the following: To launch "Everything" in debug mode: Exit "Everything". From the Start menu, Click Run . Enter: cmd Enter: cd "C:\program files\Everything" Enter: everything.exe -debug To copy the text in the debug console: Right click the console title bar ....

Keep in mind the ext: command does not support wildcards. Use < and > to group boolean operations. Please try the following: \Windows\Temp\ | <<ext:---;###;$$$;$db;$sa;@@@;___;_dd;_detmp;_dump;_mp;aps;bac;bak;bk;chk;cpy;dao;db$;diz;dmp;err;errorlog;fic;fnd;ftg;fts;gid;ilk;lo_;log;mch;MS;nav;ncb;nch;...

Please try creating the two following filters (applies to 1.2.1.371): Add Filter : Set Type to Exclude . Set the Filter to _vti* Set Apply To to Files and folders . Click OK . Add Filter : Set Type to Exclude . Set the Filter to *\_vti*\* Set Apply To to Files and folders . Click OK . With the lates...

You can use an exclamation mark (!) prefix to exclude a search term.

For example, to exclude C:\windows

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!C:\windows\

Please see the "Everything" Search Syntax for more information.

Needed to re-enable active topics with the phpbb 3.0.6 upgrade.

Please try:

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*.*~|*.?$?|*.??$|*.?~?|*.^*|*.bak|*.err|*.log|*.old|*.temp|*.tmp|*~tmp.*

Unfortunately, wildcards do not work with the ext: command.

It appears "Everything" is indexing this volume. However, there maybe some orphaned files and folders due to a damaged file system. You can confirm this by building a fresh database in debug mode. To rebuild the database in debug mode: Exit "Everything" completely. Delete your Ev...

Sorry the bug is still present in 451a.

The current alpha release is still 451a.

Fixed for the next release of "Everything".

This is a limitation with the Windows HotKey API.

Alt Gr maps to Ctrl + Alt (with no distinguation between left and right Alt/Ctrl).

I am considering the option to ignore the hotkey press if the Right Alt (Alt Gr) key was used.
However, this is not 100% accurate.

I have been unable to reproduce the problem here (Win XP SP2 + Office 2003).

What is displayed in the debug console when opening an Excel file where Excel is already open?

This will be possible with the upcoming custom file list support.
However, indexing will be slow and you will need to manually update the indexes.

I will consider implementing native Linux/ext3 support.

I am currently still improving custom file lists, rewriting search history and improving the toolbars.

Will have an another alpha once that is done.

I would still like to add color/font customization before a beta / official release.

I have plans to convert the ETP/FTP/HTTP servers to optional plugins in a future release of "Everything".

Fixed for the next release of "Everything".

You can test this now with the latest alpha release.

"Everything" requires administrative privileges for low level access to volumes.

The problem is caused by "Everything" having administrative privileges and your mouse/keyboard software having limited privileges.

Applications run from "Everything" will also have administrative privileges.

Please make sure all your volumes are currently in DMA transfer mode. To check if your volumes are currently in DMA transfer mode: Right click My Computer. Click Properties. Click the Hardware tab. Click Device Manager. Open IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. Right click Primary IDE Channel. Click Propertie...

I have added the state of Match Case, Whole Word, Path, Regex, ETP, HTTP, filters and recent changes to the status bar.

You can test this now with the latest alpha release.

I have added URL Protocol support to "Everything" for the next release. The following will be supported: ES: URL Protocol (ES is short for Everything Search). Install URL Protocol from installer (disabled by default). Install/Uninstall URL Protocol from within "Everything". -inst...

is it possible that everything supports "environment variables" like %temp%, %userprofile%, %APPDATA%

Yes, added to my "Things to do" list.

I have made a note of this for the translators for the next release of "Everything".

The "Everything" SDK requires "Everything" is running in the background. This is done for up-to-date results and efficiency. If you do not need up-to-date results you could go directly to the Everything.db. There is some information on the db here . However, I would recommend wai...

Please try using named instances.

You will need to disable allow multiple instances.

For more information please see:
http://support.voidtools.com/everything ... _instances

If you run a HTTP server you will be able to download these files from your own computer. To run a HTTP server: In " Everything ", from the Tools menu, click Start HTTP Server . Once you have started a HTTP server, click on the following links to download these files from your own computer...

Disable Allow multiple instances.

To disable allow multiple instances:

In "Everything", from the Tools menu, click Options.
Uncheck Allow multiple instances.
Click OK.

I am working on custom file lists for the next release of "Everything".

Custom file lists will allow you to index and search single folders at a time.

This will be possible with the next release of "Everything" by running Everything.exe with the -loaddb and -quit command line options.

You could schedule this with task scheduler or place a shortcut in your start-up folder.

"Everything" only keeps file IDs or File Reference Numbers (FRNS) in memory for folders.

You can use the latest alpha release to view folder FRNs.

Although possible, "Everything" does not keep a record of FRNs for files due to large memory requirements.

Fixed for the next release. I think there is a second problem: some of my harddisks are "mounted" as subdirectory on drive D:, e.g. d:\_HDEXT\graphics I've tried to exclude the directory d:\_HDEXT but it seems, that Everything ignore this. You will need to use the latest alpha release to i...

What version of Windows are you running?

Try running your mouse software with administrative privileges.

It will still work.

However, you can expect the memory usage to climb over 100mb with over 2 million files.

For a rough guide you can expect roughly 50mb ram usage per 1 million files.

CPU usage should always be minimal, no matter the number of files you have.

Depends how many files you have.

Less than 2 million you should be fine.

Write some further explanation concerning the options on the "Volumes" tab in the options window. I have updated http://support.voidtools.com/everything/Indexing to include a little more information about each option. Should it not work without the USN Logging Journal and just reading the...

To index only folders: In "Everything", from the Tools menu, click Options . Click the Exclude tab. Make sure Enable exclude list is checked. Click Add Filter . Make sure Exclude is checked. Type in * for the filter . Make sure Apply to Files only is checked. Click OK. Click OK.

Maybe you accidentally pressed the match case keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Q.

Does searching for Big Sky find any results?

Do you have match case enabled from the search menu?

Using regex: * Matches the preceding element zero or more times. For example, ab*c matches "ac", "abc", "abbbc", etc. [xyz]* matches "", "x", "y", "z", "zx", "zyx", "xyzzy", and so on. $ab$* matches...

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