No folder icon shown on folders from filelist?

[luckulucki]

Hi,

(I'm using Everything-1.5.0.1351a.x64 on Win10 with filelists made on linux via find command)

coming from here and wondering, why Everything is not showing a folder icon on paths from within a filelist, while showing a folder icon on a "normal" ntfs folder ?

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Can I fix this by changeing something inside the filelist?

I really need to have folder icons on folders.
Also the sorting is now very unreliable. Everything sorts those folder like files (no filelist folders on top).

My filelist looks like:

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"/mnt/user/tmp/TEST123ABC",20,2023-06-22T14:12:21.5881188340,,
"/mnt/user/tmp/TEST123ABC/TEST123ABC",20,2023-06-22T14:12:27.3971047020,,
"/mnt/user/tmp/TEST123ABC/TEST123ABC/TEST123ABC",0,2023-06-22T14:12:27.3971047020,,

Also, IMHO, there is a trailing backslash missing on the first and fourth path. Should be
F:\ instead of F:
and
/mnt/user/tmp/ instead of /mnt/user/tmp

Because / is the root path and F: is the drive (at least on windows) ;-D

Any help is very appreceated! Thank you!

[NotNull]

Any help is very appreceated!

In that case ...
Workaround: open the file list in Everything 1.4. for now

[void]

Normally, Everything does not load icons, thumbnails or properties for file lists.



Please include a trailing backslash (\) or forward slash (/) for folders in your file list.

-or-

-Please make sure there is an attributes column and set the folders attributes to include:
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY (0x00000010)

-or-

Please enable loading of icons for file lists:

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Advanced tab on the left.
• To the right of Show settings containing, search for:
  filelist
• Select filelist_icons.
• Set the value to: true
• Click OK.

[luckulucki]

Thank you, those are competent suggestions ;-D I would never find myself!

Normally, Everything does not load icons, thumbnails or properties for file lists.

It makes sense, if the paths are not reachable or offline.
I just thought, Everything recognizes paths-only entries and shows a default folder icon internally, without trying to get the icon from the actual path in the filelist (which I think, I will never need, because: speed is the key to happy findings).

Please enable loading of icons for file lists:

Ok, but this will only work with this done too:

Please include a trailing backslash (\) or forward slash (/) for folders in your file list.

Which I did for testing by hand in the filelist. Everything now shows folder icons, nice.

Unfortunately, the sorting (folders on top) seems independend from that. I found "folders_first" in the advanced settings, but it seems not to have any impact.

-Please make sure there is an attributes column and set the folders attributes to include:
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY (0x00000010)

I surely would, if I knew how to do that with unix find util, which prepares the filelists I view in Everything.
Also, I have no idea how to tell the find util to add folders with a trailing slash so Everything can handle them as folders and not as files.


So I guess, I'll stick to NotNull's hint... a pity ;-D

Thank you both very much!

[NotNull]

Untested ...

There might be a way by running 2 passes of the find command on a path:
First command is for folders, the second one for files

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find -type d -printf '"%p\",%s,%TFT%TT,16,\n'
find -type f -printf '"%p",%s,%TFT%TT,,\n'

[luckulucki]

That is such an outside of the box thinking, great! Thank you.

Simple idea with big power!

(IF the filelist needs to be in any order, aka sorting, I can do this within the script I call for find, but I guess, the filelist entries can be mixed and Everything will sort it internally...)

Really, that is such a great idea ;-D

[NotNull]

IF the filelist needs to be in any order,

No need .. Everything will reorganize the data itself to create a hierarchical structure.

In the meantime I was able to test it: it does work without any furtehr modifications

[void]

Unfortunately, the sorting (folders on top) seems independend from that. I found "folders_first" in the advanced settings, but it seems not to have any impact.

There's currently no option to view file lists items in the original sort order.
Support for viewing by original file list sort order is on my TODO list.