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i'd like to sort the list of files in everything by date. there is one problem.

around 40 files are dated to 01.01.2098 an that means if i sort by date, i have to scroll down until i find the relevant files.

should i delete the files and refresh the list?

how can this date happen?

Consider using edit==>advanced==>set file time to change the dates to something more current

I have several files like that, copied from external sources or old DOS created files.

where is edit? i can't even open the path through everything

i have deleted them. this was the path:

...\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Extensions

and the same here ....\AppData\Local\Avira

now it's fine. edge also works.

i had to delete them through windows explorer because everything didn't do anything. also had to refresh the database as always.

also had to refresh the database as always

"As always", is not expected.

(Now it could be that the particular areas are "protected" ?, so by default Everything might not have sufficient permissions [to delete], but one would expect changes to be seen.)

if i see a normal file in everything like c:\cats-are-mammals.txt and i delete it in windows explorer, it's still visible in everything but i don't care. i really don't care. it's a shortcut in ...\Recent. don't know what that is and i really don't care.

it's still visible in everything

That's abnormal, unless you've specifically made (non-default) changes to .
(And assuming we're talking about an NTFS drive).

after lots of bad experiences with ReFS, i switched and remained back on ntfs. OT: and on linux btrfs > ext4

lucadeputa wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 3:39 pm where is edit? i can't even open the path through everything

It was introduced in Everything 1.5 and can be found in the main menu (Menu => Edit => Advanced => Set File Time )

for reasons i am only using stable versions of very software that exists.

To set the date modified timestamp for a file to today's date:

• From the Start menu, search for:
  powershell
• Click Powershell
• In powershell, run the following command:
  (Get-Item "C:\path\to\file.txt").LastWriteTime = (Get-Date -Format "yyyy-MM-dd")
  Change C:\path\to\file.txt to your filename
  You can use Ctrl + Shift + C to copy the filename from Everything.

lucadeputa wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:11 pm for reasons i am only using stable versions of very software that exists.

So you miss a lot of new features and more speed.
You will have to wait a very long time before Everything 1.5 goes beta and final.