To restore the previous session:
- From the History menu, click Restore Previous Session.
Everything will update your session on disk when you change your search.
This can only occur once every 15 seconds.
Everything will also save your session when you exit Everything.
To restore a closed tab:
- From the History menu, under the Recently Closed Tabs submenu, click your closed tab.
-or- - Press Ctrl + Shift + T to restore the last closed tab.
To restore a closed window:
- From the History menu, under the Recently Closed Windows submenu, click your closed window.
-or- - Press Ctrl + Shift + N to restore the last closed window.
Your session is stored in %APPDATA%\Everything\Session.json
When you start Everything, your Session.json is renamed to Session.backup.json
The previous session is then restored from Session.backup.json.
The previous session can only be restored once per session.
No session is stored on disk until you change the search.
To disable sessions:
- 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:
session - Select: session_store
- Set the value to: false
- Click OK.
To lock your previous session:
- Set your Session.backup.json file as read-only.
Internally, Everything converts your Session.json to a bunch of command line options.
To restore a custom session from the command line:
Everything.exe -restore-session "my custom sesssion.json" -no-new-window
Sample session.json:
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[
{
"window_x":790,
"window_y":830,
"window_wide":1418,
"window_high":644,
"maximized":0,
"ontop":0,
"filters_visible":1,
"filters_wide":147,
"filters_right_align":1,
"left_sidebar_wide":233,
"right_sidebar_wide":187,
"treeview_visible":0,
"treeview_side":0,
"treeview_order":0,
"treeview_high":443,
"preview_visible":0,
"preview_side":1,
"preview_order":2,
"preview_high":197,
"filters_sidebar_visible":0,
"filters_sidebar_side":0,
"filters_sidebar_order":1,
"filters_sidebar_high":244,
"bookmarks_sidebar_visible":0,
"bookmarks_sidebar_side":0,
"bookmarks_sidebar_order":1,
"bookmarks_sidebar_high":264,
"findbar_highlight_all":1,
"menu":1,
"fullscreen_menu":0,
"theme":2,
"status_bar_visible":1,
"zoom":100,
"invert_layout":0,
"statusbar_view_thumbnail_size":128,
"bookmarks_sidebar_expanded":"",
"tab_cursel":0,
"tabs":
[
{
"match_case":0,
"match_path":0,
"match_whole_word":0,
"match_diacritics":0,
"match_prefix":0,
"match_suffix":0,
"ignore_punctuation":0,
"ignore_whitespace":0,
"match_regex":0,
"search":"",
"filter":"EVERYTHING",
"sort":"Date Modified",
"sort_ascending":0,
"view":0,
"thumbnail_size":32,
"index":0,
"index_file_list":"",
"index_link_type":0,
"sort_mix":0,
"omit_results":0,
"temp_omit_results":1,
"columns":[{"name":"Name","width":276},{"name":"Path","width":312},{"name":"Size","width":67},{"name":"Date Modified","width":99}]
}
]
}
]
TODO:
Option to restore all recently closed tabs.
Option to restore all recently closed windows.
Restore result list selection/focus.
Restore folder sidebar selection/focus.
Restore column widths.
Restore opened file list / ETP connection.
Restore status_bar_visible
Restore zoom
Restore invert_layout
Restore statusbar_view_thumbnail_size