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A long time ago (september 2017) I wrote something for browsing EFU files (a bit similar to Explorer, but without the folder tree).
I had more plans for it, but my time is limited.
So it's time to "dump" it in it's current state. Now someone else can tinker with it

Installation:

• Put Everything.exe in an empty folder.
• Extract "Install EFU Browser.cmd" and "Uninstall EFU Browser.cmd" to that same folder
• Double-click "Install EFU Browser.cmd"
• Done

Usage:

• Double click some .EFU file
  EFU Browser will open
• Click a foldername in the Name column or Path column to go to that folder.
  (Keyboard warriors: ENTER on a folder enters that folder; CTRL-ENTER goes to it's parentfolder)
• That is about it. Just see for yourself to get an impression.

Note
- If you have already have enabled Menu:Tools > Options > General > EFU file association in your regular Everything, you can leave that enabled. The EFU browser file association is 'stronger'.
- No guarantees that it will work properly.

Tested and it works.

Neat, I never would have thought this would have been possible with Everything.
Thanks for sharing.

Thanks!
All possible thanks to the extreme configurability of Everything (and some duct tape, and a swiss army knife ).

What amazed me most in playing with this is that nested functions could be used in commands: $parent($parent(%1)) would give the grandparent of %1 !. Didn't use it in the end, but was a nice discovery.


BTW: this is why I suggested showing the current EFU file in the title bar

This is so neat!

Thank you for sharing it.

You're welcome!

the state says thanks.

The ideas in here are so useful! Thank you!
I'm going to use this for browsing offline volumes saved in an .efu file.

I just figured out that I can use this in the default instance as well. ie. Right click menu > Explore and Explore Path can be configured to do that.

• In Menu > Tools > Options > General > Context Menu, select Explore, and insert the following:

(-instance is not needed, but for completeness, the following works:)

• In Menu > Tools > Options > General > Context Menu, select Explore Path, and insert the following:

Fun fact: that is how this all started. I wanted to write something for people to browse their search results.
When too many settings got involved and as Everything is highly configurable, I focused on EFU's to prevent ruining their regular Everything.