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Hello, I just registered on this forum to be able to ask this question.

I would like to be able to launch Everything from a File selector dialog (also called the Open/save/save as dialog), so I can find files nested deep in folders, or (sub)folders with specific patterns in their filename.

At the moment, I have a keyboard shortcut to launch Everything, and if I use this shortcut in a normal File Explorer window, it does the right thing: an Everything window opens up at the path shown by the File Explorer window. However, if I do the same from a File selector dialog, the Everything windows that opens shows the root folder (\).

Is there a way I can have the File selector working path to be passed on to the new Everything window?

Thank you for this utility. I use it dozens of times every day - to the point I couldn't live without it anymore!

1. Would it help to be able to right-click a file/folder in the file selector, and so launch it by a menu item (to the right spot)?

2. You could likely also drag a file from the file selector over the everything folder view title or over the search bar to set the everything searcher

No doubt there are other options...

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Thanks for your reply, @meteorquake.

meteorquake wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 2:04 pm 1. Would it help to be able to right-click a file/folder in the file selector, and so launch it by a menu item (to the right spot)?

It would help a bit, but still no cigar.

Why "no cigar"? For example, if the current path in the File selector only contains folders - no simple files - right clicking one of them would launch Everything only in that folder - not in its parent, which is the desired behavior.

meteorquake wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 2:04 pm 2. You could likely also drag a file from the file selector over the everything folder view title or over the search bar to set the everything searcher

Similar issue, and the dragging is even more mouse-intensive.

My hope is to be able to launch an Everything search in the folder shown by the File selector without having to touch the mouse.

You need to activate the background contexxt menu. That is available by right-clicking in one of the orange areas in the screenshot below.

BTW: Which Everything version?

One additional note to that, you can generally launch a program on the parent of an item right-clicked by using "%1\..\" instead of "%1" or "%1\..\..\" for the next higher level still.
This could be done as an additional registry entry (can provide details if needed) but it may be there's a ready-made command option to do such things.
So
"C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a\Everything64.exe" -new-window -explore "%1"
"C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a\Everything64.exe" -new-window -explore "%1\..\"
"C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a\Everything64.exe" -new-window -explore "%1\..\..\"
etc
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Thanks for the info, @NotNull! If I'm not mistaken, this come straight from the horse's mouth: you're the author in person, right?

NotNull wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:18 pm You need to activate the background contexxt menu. That is available by right-clicking in one of the orange areas in the screenshot below.
2023-02-07 17_14_15-Open.png

This needs a (right) mouse click anyway - right? Any chance it could be done by a simple keyboard shortcut as I'm doing from the File Explorer?

NotNull wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:18 pm BTW: Which Everything version?

Version 1.4.1.1022 Lite (x64) - I do check for updates periodically, so it should be the latest.

meteorquake wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:27 pm One additional note to that, you can generally launch a program on the parent of an item right-clicked by using "%1\..\" instead of "%1" or "%1\..\..\" for the next higher level still.

Yes @meteorquake, thanks again. I know about ".." notation, but my issue is that when Everything is invoked from File selector (open/save) dialog by a keyboard shortcut (as opposed by a right-click context menu), it doesn't receive the current path as a parameter. Which it does if the keyboard shortcut is used from a "regular" File Explorer window.

Why not using the NotNull's JumpToFolder AHK script ?
This works fine from Open/Save dialogs.

Hello @horst.epp, thanks for your suggestion. I didn't know about the JumpToFolder script, and I had to search the web to find out what AHK means

I'll explore this path, although if it is a simple matter to solve with Everything alone, I would prefer a solution that doesn't require extra software.

meteorquake wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:27 pm One additional note to that, you can generally launch a program on the parent of an item right-clicked by using "%1\..\" instead of "%1" or "%1\..\..\" for the next higher level still.
This could be done as an additional registry entry (can provide details if needed) but it may be there's a ready-made command option to do such things.
So
"C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a\Everything64.exe" -new-window -explore "%1"
"C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a\Everything64.exe" -new-window -explore "%1\..\"
"C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a\Everything64.exe" -new-window -explore "%1\..\..\"
etc
d

Hello meteorquake, after some thought I came back to this issue.
I think your suggestion is the best solution after all. How do I create such a registry entry for the background context referred to by NotNull in his post here?