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dme
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searching "unusual" details

Post by dme »

In Windows Explorer--in details view--I can choose to display from a list of 307 columns.

How can I search this data with Everything?

Image (see full list below)

Here's the list of these fields:
  1. Name
  2. Date Modified
  3. Tyoe
  4. Size
  5. #
  6. 35mm focal length
  7. Account name
  8. Album
  9. Album artist
  10. Album ID
  11. Anniversary
  12. Assistant's name
  13. Assistant's phone
  14. Attachments
  15. Attributes
  16. Authors
  17. Auto summary
  18. Availability
  19. Availability status
  20. Bee
  21. Bee addresses
  22. Beats-per-minute
  23. Billing information
  24. Birthday
  25. Bit depth
  26. Bit rate
  27. Broadcast date
  28. Business address
  29. Business city
  30. Business country/region
  31. Business fax
  32. Business home page
  33. Business P.0. box
  34. Business phone
  35. Business postal code
  36. Business state or province
  37. Business street
  38. By location
  39. Callback number
  40. Camera maker
  41. Camera model
  42. Car phone
  43. Categories
  44. Cc
  45. Cc addresses
  46. Cell phone
  47. Channel number
  48. Children
  49. City
  50. Classification
  51. Client ID
  52. Closed captioning
  53. Color
  54. Comments
  55. Company
  56. Company main phone
  57. Complete
  58. Composers
  59. Computer
  60. Conductors
  61. Connected
  62. Contact names
  63. Content created
  64. Content status
  65. Content type
  66. Contributing artists
  67. Contributors
  68. Conversation ID
  69. Copyright
  70. Country/region
  71. Creators
  72. Data rate
  73. Date
  74. Date accessed
  75. Date acquired
  76. Date archived
  77. Date completed
  78. Date created
  79. Date last saved
  80. Date received
  81. Date released
  82. Date sent
  83. Date taken
  84. Date visited
  85. Deparbnent
  86. Description
  87. Device category
  88. Dimensions
  89. Directors
  90. Disc
  91. Discovery method
  92. Division
  93. Document ID
  94. Due date
  95. Duration
  96. E-mail address
  97. E-mail display name
  98. E-mail list
  99. E-mail2
  100. E-mail3
  101. Encoded by
  102. Encryption status
  103. End date
  104. Entry type
  105. Episode name
  106. Episode number
  107. Event
  108. EXIF version
  109. Exposure bias
  110. Exposure program
  111. Exposure time
  112. File as
  113. File count
  114. File description
  115. File extension
  116. File ownership
  117. File version
  118. Filename
  119. First name
  120. Flag color
  121. Flag status
  122. Flash mode
  123. Focal length
  124. Folder
  125. Folder name
  126. Folder path
  127. Frame height
  128. Frame rate
  129. Frame width
  130. Free/busy status
  131. Friendly name
  132. From
  133. From addresses
  134. F-stop
  135. Full name
  136. Gender
  137. Genre
  138. Given name
  139. Group
  140. Has attachments
  141. Has flag
  142. Height
  143. Hobbies
  144. Home address
  145. Home city
  146. Home country/region
  147. Home fax
  148. Home P.0. box
  149. Home phone
  150. Home postal code
  151. Home state or province
  152. Home street
  153. Horizontal resolution
  154. IM addresses
  155. Importance
  156. Incomplete
  157. Initial key
  158. Initials
  159. Is attachment
  160. Is completed
  161. Is deleted
  162. Is on!ine
  163. Is recurring
  164. ISO speed
  165. Item type
  166. Job title
  167. Kind
  168. Label
  169. Language
  170. Last name
  171. Last printed
  172. Legal b·ademarks
  173. Length
  174. Lens maker
  175. Lens model
  176. Light source
  177. Link status
  178. Link target
  179. Local computer
  180. Location
  181. Mailing address
  182. Manufacturer
  183. Masters keywords
  184. Masters keywords
  185. Max aperture
  186. Media created
  187. Meeting status
  188. Metering mode
  189. Midd!e name
  190. Mileage
  191. Model
  192. Mood
  193. Nickname
  194. Office location
  195. Offline status
  196. Optional attendee addresses
  197. Optional attendees
  198. Organizer address
  199. Organizer name
  200. Orientation
  201. Other address
  202. Other city
  203. Other country/region
  204. Other P.O. box
  205. Other postal code
  206. Other state or province
  207. Other street
  208. Owner
  209. Pager
  210. Pages
  211. Paired
  212. Parental rating
  213. Parental rating reason
  214. Part of a compilation
  215. Part of set
  216. Participants
  217. Path
  218. People
  219. Perceived type
  220. Period
  221. Personal tide
  222. Postal code
  223. Primary e-mail
  224. Primary phone
  225. Priority
  226. Producers
  227. Product name
  228. Product version
  229. Profession
  230. Program description
  231. Program mode
  232. Program name
  233. Project
  234. Protected
  235. Publisher
  236. Rating
  237. Read status
  238. Recording time
  239. Relevance
  240. Reminder time
  241. Required attendee addresses
  242. Required attendees
  243. Rerun
  244. Resources
  245. SAP
  246. Sab.sration
  247. Season number
  248. Sender address
  249. Sender name
  250. Sensitivity
  251. Shared
  252. Shared with
  253. Sharing
  254. Sharing status
  255. Sharing type
  256. Slides
  257. Snippets
  258. Sort album
  259. Sort album artist
  260. Sort composer
  261. Sort contributing artists
  262. Sort title
  263. Source
  264. Space free
  265. Space used
  266. Spherical
  267. Spouse/Partner
  268. Start date
  269. State or province
  270. Station call sign
  271. Station name
  272. Status
  273. Status
  274. Status
  275. Stereo
  276. Store
  277. Street
  278. Subject
  279. Subject distance
  280. Subtitle
  281. Suffix
  282. Summary
  283. Support link
  284. Tags
  285. Task owner
  286. Task status
  287. Telex
  288. Title
  289. To
  290. To addresses
  291. To do title
  292. Total bitrate
  293. Total editing time
  294. Total file size
  295. Total size
  296. TTY/TTD phone
  297. URL
  298. User web URL
  299. Vertical resolution
  300. Video compression
  301. Video orientation
  302. Webpage
  303. White balance
  304. Width
  305. Word count
  306. Writers
  307. Year
dme
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by dme »

Aha! Now I get it. https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/indexes/
By default, "Everything" indexes all local fixed NTFS volumes.

Indexes can be customized in the Everything options.
More specifically:
Everything indexes file size and date modified by default.
"Unusual" details--limited to
  • file size
  • folder size
  • date created
  • date modified
  • date accessed
  • attributes
dme
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by dme »

Anybody have suggestions for tools to index these additional file properties?
void
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by void »

Currently, Everything does not index, search or display these extended columns.

I've added all these columns for the next version of Everything.
I am still reviewing keeping this as most of them are not very useful or don't report any information at all.

Here's a short list of columns I will most likely be including with the next version:
  • Size on Disk - GetCompressedFileSize
  • File/Product Version - GetFileVersionInfo
  • Width - image width, video width.
  • Height - image height, video height
  • Channels - Audio channel count
  • Audio Bit rate - Audio encoding bitrate.
  • Video Bit Rate - Video bitrate
  • Total bit rate - audio + video bitrate.
  • sample rate - audio eg: 44 Khz
  • sample size - audio eg: 16 bit
  • title - audio / video / image
  • subject - image
  • subtitle - audio / video
  • rating - audio / video / image
  • tags - video / image
  • comments - audio / video / image
  • contributing artists - audio
  • album artists - audio
  • album - audio
  • year - audio
  • # - audio track
  • genre - audio
  • length - audio / video
  • authors - images / eml
  • EXIF
  • IPTC
  • FRN
asamirid
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by asamirid »

hello void,

i read this topic and these adds are very useful and promising, thumb up.

however, i reached here by web-search because i wanted to find old photos i took years ago by my "iphone 3gs"

i hope you also add the ability to index or search for "camera" as extended properties.

it will be very helpful in finding and organizing old bulky photos folders.

thank you for ur great work.
ovg
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by ovg »

Please make it optional ....
zeus04
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by zeus04 »

void wrote:Currently, Everything does not index, search or display these extended columns.

I've added all these columns for the next version of Everything.
I am still reviewing keeping this as most of them are not very useful or don't report any information at all.

Here's a short list of columns I will most likely be including with the next version:
  • Size on Disk - GetCompressedFileSize
  • File/Product Version - GetFileVersionInfo
  • Width - image width, video width.
  • Height - image height, video height
  • Channels - Audio channel count
  • Audio Bit rate - Audio encoding bitrate.
  • Video Bit Rate - Video bitrate
  • Total bit rate - audio + video bitrate.
  • sample rate - audio eg: 44 Khz
  • sample size - audio eg: 16 bit
  • title - audio / video / image
  • subject - image
  • subtitle - audio / video
  • rating - audio / video / image
  • tags - video / image
  • comments - audio / video / image
  • contributing artists - audio
  • album artists - audio
  • album - audio
  • year - audio
  • # - audio track
  • genre - audio
  • length - audio / video
  • authors - images / eml
  • EXIF
  • IPTC
  • FRN


My wish-list for video:

codec
creators
frame rate


about exif, do you plan to make all exif searchable? If not, location and camera model is my top candidates!

I just love Everything, thank you for an extraordinary product!
void
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by void »

Of course these columns will be optional and not shown by default.
Same with indexing, indexing will be optional and disabled by default.
ovg
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by ovg »

Thank you, David!
rubisco
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by rubisco »

As a long time user of the standard Windows Search - I am impressed by the functionality and speed that Everything brings to the user. A while ago I started using the File Meta Association Manager to extend the property handler associated with a certain file extension. Now, I am looking for an option to track down the tagged files more effectively. Hence, my question: Is the upcoming version of Everything going to support the search of the extended metadata -- e.g. tags for, lets say, .pdf, .docx and .png?
rob
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by rob »

Hi. Am new here. Everything is brilliant, especially for the file hoarder me.

Anyway, related to this thread (forgive me if i should create a new one-please let me know and i'll re do it)
I have a little question about the search syntax, precedence, wildcards and handling spaces.

If i give an example of the file details, mainly related to .mp3 tags. I have many, many GB of music from UK charts. They all have album information in the following format Official Top 40 01-07-2011

i need to locate all of the files that have contain Official Top 40 in the album column and dont want to limit to specific date.
In windows search i would type Album:"Top 40" the results are returned corrcectly. I realise that Everything does not index content, but can someone give an example string to help me please? I've tried a lot of permutations but i'm either only getting the filename which contains the word album or i'm getting 0 results.

using the album: function
Where would i put the * wildcard for albums that contain spaces? Strings with spaces need to be enclosed in quotes, right? :?:

album:"*Top 40*" produces no results.
album:*"Top 40"* produces no results.
album:*top also brings other files album name which are not desired. such as top of the pops or top summer hits etc

.What is the precedence when using wildcards * and literal strings " "? :?:

. Should i be using the AND operator (space) ? :?:
<album:Top album:40> ??
Thank you for any tips on how to achieve this.
Also, will Everything GUI include those alternative column headers, such album, contributing artist etc?

UPDATE: <album:Top album:40> is the correct syntax and works like a charm!! Awesome. :D

also, here's a quick and nasty powershell snippet for renaming files that have digits at the front of filename. obviously, change the file extension and number of characters in the substring argument to meet your own circumstances.

note. in the case of resultant duplicate filesnames, you will get an error and needs to be run again...
:!: DANGER:. DO NOT RUN THIS MORE THAN ONCE without moving the renamed files to a new location or your files names will keep getting shorter lol :lol:

gci *.mp3 | rename-item -newname { [string]($_.name).substring(2) }

i'll work on it to auto move renamed files out. I've just not had the time yet. :roll: feel free to share any improvements.
therube
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by therube »

Looks like, album:"top 40", should do it.

(Never particularly knew album: or some of those other "tag" searches existed.)
rob
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by rob »

therube wrote:Looks like, album:"top 40", should do it.album:"top 40"
I might need to update my version then lol. i'm not getting what i was hoping for. i'm only a couple of releases behind.
What did work EXACTLY as i wanted it was the grouping < >and the AND. Thus: <album:top album:40>

(Never particularly knew album: or some of those other "tag" searches existed.)

i didn't either!!, but i like to investigate and self-help as much as possible haha :lol:
I clicked the HELP > Search Syntax in the main toolbar and saw the huge list of functions, but I was a bit dense around the subject of wildcards and literal strings when used with the functions.
The help and documentation is exceptionally good, but that little snippet of info was what i needed to know and wasn't there.

Suggestion? Maybe adding some example search strings to the search syntax help screen? for each function and operator combination would be super useful, if possible ? it's a little sparse for dummies like me :(

Code: Select all

Function Syntax:
	function:value	Equal to value.
	function:<=value	Less than or equal to value.
	function:<value	Less than value.
	function:=value	Equal to value.
	function:>value	Greater than value.
	function:>=value	Greater than or equal to value.
	function:start..end	Is in the range of values from start to end.
	function:start-end	Is in the range of values from start to end.
EDIT: one other suggestion please, if it's not already on the delevopment roadmap, it would be absolutely brilliant if a CONTAINS or CO "" clause could be added? i know that is easily worked around with other operators, but contains is a bit more user intuitive?
Thanks again!
Rob
xwingkilla
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by xwingkilla »

void wrote: Fri Jun 08, 2018 12:30 pm Currently, Everything does not index, search or display these extended columns.

I've added all these columns for the next version of Everything.
I am still reviewing keeping this as most of them are not very useful or don't report any information at all.

Here's a short list of columns I will most likely be including with the next version:
  • Size on Disk - GetCompressedFileSize
  • File/Product Version - GetFileVersionInfo
  • Width - image width, video width.
  • Height - image height, video height
  • Channels - Audio channel count
  • Audio Bit rate - Audio encoding bitrate.
  • Video Bit Rate - Video bitrate
  • Total bit rate - audio + video bitrate.
  • sample rate - audio eg: 44 Khz
  • sample size - audio eg: 16 bit
  • title - audio / video / image
  • subject - image
  • subtitle - audio / video
  • rating - audio / video / image
  • tags - video / image
  • comments - audio / video / image
  • contributing artists - audio
  • album artists - audio
  • album - audio
  • year - audio
  • # - audio track
  • genre - audio
  • length - audio / video
  • authors - images / eml
  • EXIF
  • IPTC
  • FRN
Hello. Just checking in to know how far are we from this? I am on Version 1.4.1.935 (x64)
Thank you again for your great tool.
void
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by void »

All those columns have been implemented. I don't have a release date for testing yet.
xwingkilla
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by xwingkilla »

void wrote: Sun Mar 31, 2019 6:05 am All those columns have been implemented. I don't have a release date for testing yet.
I was going to try the beta nightly builds that's why I asked. Thank you for work.
zeus04
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by zeus04 »

xwingkilla wrote: Sun Mar 31, 2019 2:30 pm
void wrote: Sun Mar 31, 2019 6:05 am All those columns have been implemented. I don't have a release date for testing yet.
I was going to try the beta nightly builds that's why I asked. Thank you for work.
Are these implementations in the nightly builds ATM?
void
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by void »

No, not yet sorry.
xwingkilla
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by xwingkilla »

Hello!
The orientation <portrait or landscape> option is great but I would like to sort with ratio % or average <wider than or taller than>. Let me explain. I want to sort out images that are very tall and skinny, or very wide and skinny. The resolutions are all over the place. Some images are very high def, others are low rez. I can't sort out by pixels in that case.
I hope what I am asking will be possible.
Thanks.
void
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by void »

Yes, I will have a ratio property for the next major version.

The currently orientation: search is being replaced with the exif orientation property.
eg: orientation:"Rotate 180 degrees"

With the new ratio property you can search for ratio:1.777:1 or ratio:16:9 or show the ratio column and sort by ratio.
ratio:landscape, ratio:portrait ratio:square will also work as will ratio:>16:9.
xwingkilla
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by xwingkilla »

void wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2019 7:44 am Yes, I will have a ratio property for the next major version.

The currently orientation: search is being replaced with the exif orientation property.
eg: orientation:"Rotate 180 degrees"

With the new ratio property you can search for ratio:1.777:1 or ratio:16:9 or show the ratio column and sort by ratio.
ratio:landscape, ratio:portrait ratio:square will also work as will ratio:>16:9.
Exactly what I need. Wow. Thank you. ETA for the update with the ratio Function?
NotNull
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by NotNull »

xwingkilla wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2019 4:45 pm Exactly what I need. Wow. Thank you. ETA for the update with the ratio Function?
Currently the release date is unknown.
Might take a while as there are quite a few things to do.

Consider donating to help @void spending more time on the new version.
xwingkilla
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by xwingkilla »

NotNull wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2019 5:39 pm
xwingkilla wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2019 4:45 pm Exactly what I need. Wow. Thank you. ETA for the update with the ratio Function?
Currently the release date is unknown.
Might take a while as there are quite a few things to do.

Consider donating to help @void spending more time on the new version.
Do you have a paid version of the product? How much is it? Thanks.
NotNull
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by NotNull »

xwingkilla wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2019 8:58 pm Do you have a paid version of the product? How much is it? Thanks.
As far as I know - I have no involvement in it - Everything is free of charge for everyone; personal use and commercial use alike.

EDIT: Everything's license.


If you want to support Everything and it's further development, you can do a couple of things:
  • Donate
  • Make suggestions for further improvement of Everything.
  • Report bugs.
  • Help answering questions on the forum.
xwingkilla
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by xwingkilla »

NotNull wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2019 9:27 pm
xwingkilla wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2019 8:58 pm Do you have a paid version of the product? How much is it? Thanks.
As far as I know - I have no involvement in it - Everything is free of charge for everyone; personal use and commercial use alike.

EDIT: Everything's license.


If you want to support Everything and it's further development, you can do a couple of things:
  • Donate
  • Make suggestions for further improvement of Everything.
  • Report bugs.
  • Help answering questions on the forum.
Cool.
c141heaven
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by c141heaven »

void wrote: Fri Jun 08, 2018 12:30 pm Currently, Everything does not index, search or display these extended columns.

I've added all these columns for the next version of Everything.
I am still reviewing keeping this as most of them are not very useful or don't report any information at all.


I'd really like to see the [File/Product Version - GetFileVersionInfo] as a column that could be displayed ... cleaning old versions of programs scattered all over my drives ... does not need to be indexed.....
NotNull
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by NotNull »

c141heaven wrote: Sun Nov 22, 2020 9:30 pm I'd really like to see the [File/Product Version - GetFileVersionInfo] as a column that could be displayed
That should be possible too in Everything 1.5 - the next major version that @void is working on full-time now.


BTW: You must be one of the longest standing members here. Your account is even older that the ones of @void and @therube !
(not that I keep track ..)
c141heaven
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Re: searching "unusual" details

Post by c141heaven »

Great. I saw it was on the todo list .... which was huge ... Just casting a vote.
I'm on Version 1.4.1.992

I can't explain my longevity ... :D but I am pretty old.
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