When a file is created, Date Modified & Date Created are set to the same value.
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- Sat Oct 20, 2018 8:19 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Need to get the files and folders created today: dc:today
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7704
- Tue Oct 02, 2018 1:34 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Everything 1.4.1.895.x64 stops Windows Explorer in Windows 10
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7599
Re: Everything 1.4.1.895.x64 stops Windows Explorer in Windows 10
Take a look at this post from Void about USB
http://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopi ... usb#p23166
It might shed some light on this issue.
http://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopi ... usb#p23166
It might shed some light on this issue.
- Fri Sep 28, 2018 1:34 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: How to open the "path" folder?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5947
Re: How to open the "path" folder?
Turn on the option by checking the box:
Tools=>Options=>Results (under General)=>Open Path with double click in path column
click OK
then just search & double click the path you are interested in
Tools=>Options=>Results (under General)=>Open Path with double click in path column
click OK
then just search & double click the path you are interested in
- Sat Aug 18, 2018 1:40 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Regex to find all lines (paths)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 71702
Re: Regex to find all lines (paths)
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- Sun Jul 22, 2018 11:04 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Any way to exclude a specific character from search results?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6329
Re: Any way to exclude a specific character from search results?
Create a filter with the character you chose, preceded by ! (not). Select that filter and its search term will be added to whatever you enter and no files or folders with that character will be in the results. So, if you chose $ as your character, go to Search==>Add to filters . Name the filter NOT ...
- Sat Jul 07, 2018 9:56 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Save results
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3849
Re: Save results
And/or you can enable History: http://www.voidtools.com/support/everyt ... h_history/
- Sat Jun 16, 2018 3:15 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Start Minimized
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3382
- Fri May 11, 2018 12:37 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Search syntax question
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3494
Re: Search syntax question
I will put my bet on
General > Search > Match Whole filename when using wildcards
being checked.
General > Search > Match Whole filename when using wildcards
being checked.
- Sun May 06, 2018 9:51 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: date accessed
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6213
Re: date accessed
System wide. A access date has to be updated in the directory of every file that is read (files that are written to already have their directory entries updated, but many more file are open for read access than for write).
- Sun May 06, 2018 12:44 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: date accessed
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6213
Re: date accessed
It of course depends on activity level. It is simple enough to turn on and off, so see for yourself, in your environment. Note this post from Void: Re: Date Accessed index doesn't work consistently Postby void » Sat May 05, 2018 4:18 am Everything will not detect date accessed changes. The USN Journ...
- Fri May 04, 2018 8:49 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: date accessed
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6213
Re: date accessed
Date accessed is not updated by default in Windows 7,8 and 10 (and Vista?) for performance reasons. The field gets whatever value it has from file creation and a few other things, but not normal access. If you are willing to take the performance hit it can be enabled and its status inquired upon wit...
- Wed May 02, 2018 5:46 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: date recently changed and date modified
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2826
Re: date recently changed and date modified
Re: cd:/cw:/cm: Feature change suggestion... Postby void » Tue Dec 01, 2009 1:44 am Date recently change is different to Date Modified. Date recently changed refers to the generated USN RECORD date in the USN Change Journal. This USN record date could be due to any change in the file, (ie content, ...
- Wed May 02, 2018 2:46 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: How to open items directly in the list?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7618
Re: How to open items directly in the list?
The Everything.ini you posted is the one that resides in the directory that Everything.exe is in. As NotNull said, there is another Everything.ini in %APPDATA%\Everything\Everything.ini . Just use Everything to search for Everything.ini to find it. Take a look at that one. It has about 700 lines in ...
- Thu Apr 12, 2018 5:58 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Please help: Open++ context menu and Everything
- Replies: 24
- Views: 33039
Re: Please help: Open++ context menu and Everything
Also 7-zip (file compression program) and Norton anti-virus are missing in some context menus through Everything (.gz files, for example). Maybe what these programs have in common is that they use dynamic context menus (with a .dll file) instead of fixed entries in the registry.
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 7:01 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Running two instances of Everything on different databases?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3521
- Sat Jan 20, 2018 6:06 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Windows settings, and searching inside word/pdf files
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4078
Re: Windows settings, and searching inside word/pdf files
Everything does not index content, but it can search for it. It is slow if you have many files, but quite reasonable if you can limit the size of the search:
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- Mon Jan 08, 2018 7:04 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Can’t launch found files
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7407
Re: Can’t launch found files
Can you access them from Windows explorer?
- Thu Jan 04, 2018 3:50 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Using Void to manage my music collection
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5913
Re: Using Void to manage my music collection
The short answer is no. There is no good way of telling what changed the date of a directory entry. Even if you figured out some way to correlate the changes and this date change, it would be unstable - other things might change the date in the future. It is just not the way to do it. Everything is ...
- Tue Dec 05, 2017 2:11 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Spell Check
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3621
Re: Spell Check
Yes they sometimes do. For example, if I fat-fingered part of a file name , say "financial" it will not show up when I search for all of my "financial" files. Everything has many features I do not use, but are useful to others.
- Tue Dec 05, 2017 2:30 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Spell Check
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3621
Spell Check
How about adding a file name spellcheck option to Everything. I can not find any programs with this capacity built in.
- Tue Nov 07, 2017 3:57 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: PDF preview hangs Everything
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2975
Re: PDF preview hangs Everything
Fails in 877 too, except it does not change search to match case. FWIW, the registry on my Windows 7 machine for .pdf has had many changes to it, with different version of Acrobat & Adobe reader being installed and uninstalled, so it might be different then the code expects. Debug log has been s...
- Mon Nov 06, 2017 11:05 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: PDF preview hangs Everything
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2975
PDF preview hangs Everything
Hi Void -
Tried to preview pdf files with 1.4.1.885. Everything hangs (not a cpu loop); After canceling & restarting, Search options have been changed from Match Path to Match Case ! Have a debug file, if you want it.
Tried to preview pdf files with 1.4.1.885. Everything hangs (not a cpu loop); After canceling & restarting, Search options have been changed from Match Path to Match Case ! Have a debug file, if you want it.
- Sun Oct 01, 2017 10:34 pm
- Forum: Development, plugins and third party software
- Topic: multiple search field Everything-like search solution?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 16733
Re: multiple search field Everything-like search solution?
If your five fields are adjacent to each other and are single words / numbers (or multiples joined by "_") you might be able to use regex to do your searching. Something like: regex:"field1\s*field2\s*field3" so regex"red\s*house\s*\123" will find files named red house ...
- Tue Sep 19, 2017 11:46 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Open to System Tray
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2416
Re: Open to System Tray
-startup switch
Everything.exe -startup
Everything.exe -startup
- Wed Aug 16, 2017 3:39 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Kill process when client not open?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3323
Re: Kill process when client not open?
Tools>Options>General>UI uncheck Run in Background There is overhead in writing out the database each time Everything ends, extra writes to the SDD, overhead in starting the process, etc. Unless you are a very infrequent user or your system is constrained it might just be better to leave it running.
- Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:10 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Exclude Results
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9775
Re: Exclude Results
Nice idea.
There was a music file management program that I used to use that had a right-click "exclude from current view" option. I used it a lot.
There was a music file management program that I used to use that had a right-click "exclude from current view" option. I used it a lot.
- Thu Aug 10, 2017 3:13 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Searching part of File & Folder
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3776
Re: Searching part of File & Folder
Not the one in Tools=>Options. Select Search from the tool bar and check Match Path.
- Thu Aug 03, 2017 2:20 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Annoying UAC message after latest WU
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8094
Re: Annoying UAC message after latest WU
I'm surprised no resourceful programmer has written a reliable and versatile script-based wizard to do that for any program. It could just ask for the executable's full name and path and a required shortcut name and place the resultant shorcut on the desktop by default, or optionally elsewhre. Whil...
- Wed Aug 02, 2017 2:57 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Can Everything show the size of used place and / or the space of a drive?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5423
Re: Can Everything show the size of used place and / or the space of a drive?
- Not every file is actually stored on your X: drive. The $MFT reserves space for some file attributes that have variable sizes (like the filename itself or the security settings). That means that most of the time there is some extra space (typically 400-800 bytes). If it is a very small file that ...
- Tue Aug 01, 2017 4:11 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Help with what should be an easy filter
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7401
Re: Help with what should be an easy filter
The filter I have been using for a while ispaulhurm wrote:
Doing the search and adding "!LNK" at the end seems to work. (Without the quote marks)
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!.lnk
- Mon Jul 31, 2017 3:46 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: sort-by-date always snaps back to sort-by-name
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9199
Re: sort-by-date always snaps back to sort-by-name
void wrote: A lot of things could be improved with these types of messages, but they might be annoying to some..
How about "enable" "cancel" "do not show this prompt again" with an associated ini preference for each type of prompt.
- Sat Jul 29, 2017 4:20 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Common search stops working - reinstall fixes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7618
Re: Common search stops working - reinstall fixes
Recall that I have recently done a reinstall so install defaults are in place. Paul Not necessarily. That is why I asked about deleting the .ini files. Everything will try to preserve .ini file contents on an install. If there is some setting there that is causing the problem, just reinstalling the...
- Wed Jul 26, 2017 3:55 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Common search stops working - reinstall fixes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7618
Re: Common search stops working - reinstall fixes
Under Indexes=>NTFS for each disk, do you have Include in database, Enable USN Journal & Monitor Changes checked?
When you reinstalled Everything, did you delete all copies of Everything.ini first ?
When you reinstalled Everything, did you delete all copies of Everything.ini first ?
- Wed Jul 19, 2017 3:14 am
- Forum: Bug report
- Topic: Tiny DM: Bug
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4329
Tiny DM: Bug
Tiny DM: Bug (1.4.1.877)
dm:***** where ***** is a any invalid date or random letters is evaluated as DM:2000. This is not true for da:,dr: or dc:
dm:***** where ***** is a any invalid date or random letters is evaluated as DM:2000. This is not true for da:,dr: or dc:
- Wed Apr 05, 2017 1:31 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Find folders only in root of disk drives, and exclude subfolders?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 18685
Re: Find folders only in root of disk drives, and exclude subfolders?
Try
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<parent:c:|parent:d:> folder: FOO
- Sun Apr 02, 2017 9:34 pm
- Forum: Bug report
- Topic: [Solved] Everything displays deleted files
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5884
Re: Everything displays deleted files
Void- A Debug_Log of restoring "TestNote.note". Afterwards, Everything showed it in both its real folder and in $Recycle.bin. It took a force reload to clean up the $recycle.bin display. I never noticed before that Windows creates two files for each deleted file in the recycle bin. 2017-04...
- Thu Mar 09, 2017 2:16 am
- Forum: Bug report
- Topic: recentchange doesn't work after loading a db
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6869
Re: recentchange doesn't work after loading a db
How about:
you might want to index date modified
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- Wed Mar 08, 2017 1:25 am
- Forum: Bug report
- Topic: recentchange doesn't work after loading a db
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6869
Re: recentchange doesn't work after loading a db
Try having BG exit between steps 4 and 5. I believe the database on disk is only written when Everything exits. The is also a file permission conflict if BG is writing the database when FG has it open for read
- Sun Jan 22, 2017 10:30 pm
- Forum: Development, plugins and third party software
- Topic: CSV Viewer/Editor - Searching CSV like Everything Search
- Replies: 23
- Views: 126015
Re: CSV Viewer/Editor - Searching CSV like Everything Search
Just a single .csv file?
Try Notepad++ (even better with the Search+ plugin), any spreadsheet program (EXCEL, LibreOffice, etc), or just plain Notepad or Wordpad
Try Notepad++ (even better with the Search+ plugin), any spreadsheet program (EXCEL, LibreOffice, etc), or just plain Notepad or Wordpad
- Sun Jan 22, 2017 5:51 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Opening screen?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3474
Re: Opening screen?
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Tools>Options>General>Results>Hide results when search is empty
- Fri Jan 20, 2017 2:51 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: ReallyReallyEmpty:
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7254
Re: ReallyReallyEmpty:
Wonderful! That will save me a lot of time. Yet another feature of Everything - properties across multiple files/folders on multiple drives.void wrote:Please double check by selecting all the results and opening the property page (Alt + Enter).
Check the file count is 0.
- Sun Jan 15, 2017 6:33 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Shortcut to search in current folder
- Replies: 33
- Views: 113343
Re: Shortcut to search current folder
If you create a .cmd or .bat file with the line
in it (adjusted appropriatly for your installation of Everything), and figure out how to trigger it with a hot key, it will open Everything in the current directory.
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c:\Everything\Everything.exe -path %CD%
in it (adjusted appropriatly for your installation of Everything), and figure out how to trigger it with a hot key, it will open Everything in the current directory.
- Tue Jan 10, 2017 3:18 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: ReallyReallyEmpty:
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7254
ReallyReallyEmpty:
When using the Empty: function, the folders found might not really be empty, depending on filters, excludes, hard links and recent updates. So before I delete or move a folder found with Empty:, I open it to be sure it is really empty. This obviously can take a long time for many folders. Would you ...
- Tue Dec 27, 2016 5:00 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Regex help
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6728
Re: Regex help
how about
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- Fri Nov 25, 2016 7:50 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Exclude feature does not work
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4528
Re: Exclude feature does not work
Have you tried going to Tools>Options>Indexes>NTFS and unchecking "Include in Database" for the device drive letter?
- Thu Nov 17, 2016 2:43 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: / search commands
- Replies: 14
- Views: 28399
Re: / search commands
Nits: To use search commands, enter in one of the following commands in the search box: When you do the help for this It might be better as ".........enter in one of the following in the search box and then press ENTER", since enter is not usually used on the Everything command line. Any A...
- Mon Nov 14, 2016 3:32 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: / search commands
- Replies: 14
- Views: 28399
Re: / search commands
If I understand correctly /ini_option <value> ini_option can be any ini key name. is persistent (it updates the ini file) How about adding "/ini_option ? " to display the current value of ini_option How about putting the ini file in the same order as the ini page, with occasional comments ...
- Fri Nov 11, 2016 4:16 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: ES 1.1 Command Line Tool for Everything 1.4.1
- Replies: 99
- Views: 498134
Re: ES 1.1.0.1 Alpha Command Line Tool for Everything 1.4.1
You need double quotes for names with spaces - filename1 input parameters work because there are no spaces in its names
- Tue Nov 01, 2016 11:50 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Suggestion for the post - Everything 1.4.1 Beta Nightly Builds
- Replies: 20
- Views: 36968
Re: Suggestion for the post - Everything 1.4.1 Beta Nightly Builds
How about just using the Send command to put a shortcut on the desktop:
http://www.basiccomputerinformation.ca/ ... -shortcut/
http://www.basiccomputerinformation.ca/ ... -shortcut/
- Tue Nov 01, 2016 12:09 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Suggestion for the post - Everything 1.4.1 Beta Nightly Builds
- Replies: 20
- Views: 36968
Re: Suggestion for the post - Everything 1.4.1 Beta Nightly Builds
That would assume that the only location for everything.exe is C:\everything.
That is not the case. The shortcut would depend on the location chosen by the user and thus could not be packaged in the .zip.
That is not the case. The shortcut would depend on the location chosen by the user and thus could not be packaged in the .zip.