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I feel a future in Everything where the Name search can be toggled off, and a selection of different columns can be turned on as the default search. Name, Path, Album, Artist, Director, Producer, Content, etc. Maybe "Search all visible columns" or "Search all indexed properties."...

raccoon

"Full Path", full-path:, is just another column under Add Columns that you can search from within.

You don't have to use it, but there's no reason to prohibit using it.

raccoon

Dear Stamimail, You aren't going to find artist: and album: nor pathpart: under the Search menu. Sorry about the ambiguity between path: and pathpart: where the former is representative of the Search menu option, while the latter is representative of an object's property or column data. artist: and ...

raccoon

Look under Index > Pause Updates and Options > Keyboard > "Index | Pause Updates" to add a hotkey. You can also get more mileage by searching for, or sorting by, Recently Changed files. This ignores the date modified and date created attributes, which are often falsified and cluttered with...

raccoon

Great. After all these clarifications, I think there is one thing left to fix: I was trying to search the path column. (without name column) path: was the first attempt to get results from the path column only. I think it's the most intuitive. The search function "path:" still behaves lik...

raccoon

Are you using Everything 1.4 or 1.5?

raccoon

Thank you for adding the Media Created column to support the creation_time metadata tag.

Question: How can I work this into UTC for use in Advanced Rename?

raccoon

Nice, thank you.

raccoon

/me pastes in /window_x=[rand:%1000];window_y=[rand:%1000] and holds down the Enter key for too much amusement. @void: So with the new padding settings, what should I use instead of /listview_item_high=15 to achieve the same visual affect but with Zoom support? How would you feel about a UI option t...

raccoon

I would dig the ability to toggle between two textboxes (current view) and a Detailed View with side-by-side columns for From, To, Path, Size, <property>, etc.

raccoon

On second thought, he may be referring to the context as given by other de-dupe software, like DupeGuru. Marking files as in choosing the context(s) in which files are marked or excluded for deletion, pending final review. These context scenarios make it easier to select which files are to be delete...

raccoon

void wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:47 am I am looking into easier ways to "mark" files.

Do you mean like Checkbox Select, as Windows Explorer offers?

raccoon

1. Add a padded number syntax similar to the existing $number: but prefix pad with zeros. The syntax might be $padnumber<N>: where N is number of digits to output. For example rename files x.txt and y.txt with pattern %1$padnumber4:.%2 to get x0001.txt and y0002.txt This feature has already been ad...

raccoon

I think he's asking how to prevent duplicates from matching within the same path (first or second), and to only display duplicates (to be deleted) from the second path. These should NOT match. X:\red.file X:\Copy of red.file Y:\blue.file Y:\Copy of blue.file These SHOULD match. X:\green.file Y:\Copy...

raccoon

You may have accidentally hit "Log off" instead of "Shut down" in Windows.

Try it again.

raccoon

You should have two Everything Services running. One for Everything 1.4 and one for Everything 1.5. They are not compatible with each other. The Everything 1.4 service should be called: Everything The Everything 1.5 alpha service should be called: Everything (1.5a) ^ clarity: they are ''compatible'...

raccoon

Sometimes, just purging the DB and rebuilding the index will fix errant crashes.

raccoon

You don't have to delete anything, just keep a backup copy of your inis and other settings. If you think a single default instance clean install will reveal whether the crashes are coming from a user setting, startup config, instance or task scheduler setting... then it's worth while going down that...

raccoon

What does the titlebar of your Everything 1.5 say when launched with Task Scheduler?

Does it display the "[Administrator]" flag in the titlebar?

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The following question about the Search menu is still on the table: Why Ctrl+U is called "Match Path" instead of "Match Fullpath"? Because all of the checkmarks under the Search menu are inclusive, like Match Diacritics. The Name is always searched, and Match Path merely include...

raccoon

I suppose there's a difference between a modifier and a filter, insofar as a filter can be augmented by the user, but I'm still not yet prepared to call folders: a modifier since modifiers generally augment the context of the verb semantically... as in case:, or wholeword:, or diacritics: or regex:,...

raccoon

^ what froggie said.

raccoon

"Path" in Windows = what you call FullPath (There is no such a term FullPath in WIndows. This is "Path".) I do believe this to be an inaccurate assessment. There are numerous places in windows and programming languages within windows that use "path" and "fullpath&...

raccoon

I asked this before but I didn't really understand last time. Is there any functional difference to attaching parameters/groups/modifiers to the folders: verb, versus having them separated? I still see folders: (and files:) as a filter, and not a function. I'd argue that it be described as a filter.

raccoon

Try turning off Search -> Match Diacritics for this search query.

I suspect this is a bug.

(@void: I'm also having trouble getting the diacritics: and !diacritics: and no-diacritics: verb to work in 1.5)

raccoon

That would seem very odd, then. There is an object's Name and an object's Path . The question of this thread is simply whether to replace the word path with the word location or some other such synonym. There was never any question about whether an object's name and its path (or location) are distin...

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In Everything 1.5 , experiment with View -> Enable Result Omissions. This feature was previously called Temporary Excludes. Its purpose is to provide a convenient way to toggle on/off certain excludes without making them permanent. You can add hotkey toggles through Options -> Keyboard. The search k...

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I think what the OP was asking for, by analogy, is "How can I search all my movies folders for those that have .\Extras\Subs\ or .\Samples\pics\ or any other set of folders that goes 2-deep or more." I assume he's trying to find and flatten them.

raccoon

Would you consider adding a "Power Toys" tab into Everything's settings that performs these registry hacks for us with a button click?

Such as associating various file types to the various preview engines?

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/icon_blend_hidden=0 If successful, icon_blend_hidden=0 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds. This will prevent Everything from reading the attribute information for displayed files. Hidden files are normally shown transparently. An alternative here is to index attribute information under T...

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Parent-Name is already the name of the singular parent object, and Parent-Path is the path to the parent object (minus the parent-name).

I'm in the leave-it-alone camp.

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raccoon

@TersonWatt: We can come up with some solutions I'm sure. Just not sure if there's anything less sloppy than using string manipulation via regex (regular expression) search and capture, and print the results to a new column for sorting and duplicate removal. I'll let somebody else give it a crack si...

raccoon

@void: To compliment the parents:<depth> verb, perhaps we could add a children:<depth> verb as well. Where parents: looks for objects with X levels of parents (ancestors), then children: looks for objects with X levels of children (descendants). I know this will somewhat confuse with childcount: but...

raccoon

Maintaining a database localized in RAM is far faster and resource friendlier than constantly scratching your disk's MFT for raw reads with every keystroke.

I am unaware of any alternatives to Everything that does as you specified.

raccoon

Everything searches the MFT directly.

I have never heard of DOpus. But Everything does its own thing pretty good... on its own.

raccoon

Related -> https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=11120&p=43162 Solution: Toggle to "(No change)" and then toggle back to the option that gives the new (current) column arrangement. @void: Ideally it would give you the option of the current column arrangement in the d...

raccoon

Select 1word.2word,3word.4word-5word from the search bar and hit the keyboard combination CTRL-X to Cut, and then hit the keyboard combination SHIFT+CTRL+V to Paste Without Punctuation, this will spit out 1word 2word 3word 4word 5word into the search bar. Please refer to this thread dated 1 Nov 2022...

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I have another question about "media created". Would you be able to grab from these date tags in MP4 and MKV videos? I understand each stream and wrapper might have its own date, so I leave it to you to choose which one to grab from. They're usually always identical. as reported by ffprobe...

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Note that negative inclusion (the Exclusion tab) is going to be the slower option, because you are indexing all your drives and then deleting all the entries from that index except for a few files. It's like borrowing all the books from the library and then picking out the one you want to read after...

raccoon

First, you will want to install the experimental version; Everything 1.5 Alpha . As this contains better features surrounding duplicates and file contents hashing. However, beyond this, there are numerous approaches and headaches involved in identifying duplicates and then removing the unwanted dupl...

raccoon

You can certainly add Files and Folders to your list of Filters, and then make sure you have View -> Filter bar enabled. Just select either from the droplist.

raccoon

The Include only files setting is intended to only take a list of filenames, or wildcard of filenames, or paths of filenames. Regardless of where you enter the information (eg, the "..." button then "Add Filter" button, or typing it out manually), the rules of the setting's hover...

raccoon

For contrast and future historians, this is what Everything looks like in Windows 7: Everything-Win-7-Appearance.png For customization, I have cramped as many results into as little vertical space as possible. (25 instead of void's 15 results) /listview_item_high=15 (@void: is there a way to make th...

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When thumbnails are shown in the result Everything goes on opening them after scrolling down in the result list instead of already having them open before scrolling down so one has to wait for the thumbnails to be shown. How could one make Everything to go on opening the (not visible) thumbs so the...

raccoon

... Set the new format to: <formatfiletime:$dm:,yyyy mm ddhhmmss>-%1 The month must be expressed with capital MM otherwise it will give you minutes mm. Also, if you are not specifying AM/PM then you probably want 24H time, which is capital HH. Otherwise your evening photos will not sort correctly a...

raccoon

void wrote: ↑Mon Nov 07, 2022 3:22 am Showing the sum of the length is on my TODO list.

Thank you for the suggestion.

I'm sorry, but doesn't $total-result-length: (requires length indexing) and $total-selection-length: (requires length indexing) already do this? As per Custom status bar formatting

raccoon

Sorry. The $date-modified: variable is a Windows FILETIME expressed in the number of 100 nanosecond intervals since 01-Jan-1601 . If you want to reformat it to something more human-readable, then you'll use the #format-filetime:<filetime,[format]> function. https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic....

raccoon

Indeed, it's not something I should need to do, but on very rare occasion I still find some synchronized objects after performing thousands of moves and other operations. So before I go to batch a huge job, I rebuild just to be on the safe side. All fresh and assured accurate. Thanks for pointing ou...

raccoon

Welcome to the forum KindOne. (lol dangit!

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raccoon

Request to add "Force Rebuild" to the Index menu.

I just think this would be a lot more convenient.

The Rescan submenu is always grayed out, btw.

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