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froggie

Start with the usual ones:
Make it obvious that this is donation supported software - now the only indication is the menu at the top of the download page. Put a banner on the page; put something on the home page; put up a nag screen every few months.

froggie

Thanks. Good catch. Removing /EXPAND works. I have no memory of why I added /EXPAND when I first wrote this quite a while ago, but it is not needed now for this bookmark, if it ever was.

I still do not understand the new preprocessor syntax, but that is a project for another day.

Minor question ...

froggie

I appreciate the useful comments and the quick reply, but it is not the regular search that has the quote problem, it is the search line in a bookmark which needs the triple quotes in 1391a to end up with a single quote on the regular search line. With just a single quote in the bookmark it ends up ...

froggie

in 1383a the following worked as desired in the search field of a bookmark:
/expand "\current*\" parents:5 columns:"name;;columna;datemodified;size;attributes" add-layout:folders
columna:=if(child-count-from-disk:<2,if(child-count-from-disk:<1,"No Ini",""),"Info Data Exists") a-label:"Info Data ...

froggie

Chris -
Continuing in the same direction, I labeled all my external backup drives as BACKxxxx and added them to the database following NotNull's comment, and then disconnected them.

I added the term !startwith:volumelabel:ba to my default filter (which is named Everything out of the box, but I ...

froggie

Or ...

Uncheck Automatically include new removable volumes (Options => Indexes => NTFS).

New external NTFS volumes still can be added manually (select the drive and check Include in database ).

That might well be more convenient than a separate instance. A filter on !F: would keep the ...

froggie

Chris -
Thank you for this post. I have a similar situation with my backups and various portable drives and this has inspired me to add volume labels to them and index them more systematically.

Perhaps a separate instance of Everything, set up much as you have detailed, except not indexing my ...

froggie

Look under the FOLDERS tab, not the NTFS tab

froggie

Yes. It is normal.

If you right click WindowsApps then Open, you will get a message saying you do not have permission to read the folder - so Windows can't read it to get file sizes.

froggie

flamboyant_entropy wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 12:38 pm Thank you for following up on this! I'm seeing an issue with fractional values, please see attached image

Works with a leading zero after the operator: /=4/0.25

froggie

For instance, in all my past searches, the word path: is always implied.
For instance < xls !.xl s> finds objects like “c:\this folder contains xls files\”
< path:xls !.xls > < xls !path:.xls > all do exactly the same thing. I only use path: when it clarifies my thought process.

Just a thought ...

froggie

Thank you for your reply. I am looking forward to
enable-result-omissions: (omit:)
disable-result-omissions: (no-omit:)
is-in-result-omission-list: (result-omissions:)

You wrote that result-omissions:
Matches any file/folder that is in your result omissions list.
Index -> "Enable Result ...

froggie

Mostly documentation comments, all work as expected, but I was confused for a while:

OMIT: is a Search Function.
NOOMIT: is not documented. but works (the NO prefix is only documented for Search Modifiers).

NO-OMIT-RESULTS: is a Search Modifier.
OMIT-RESULTS: is not documented, but works.

Is ...

froggie

Looks like it might be AllDup from the log. See this post:
viewtopic.php?t=6829

froggie

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.

froggie

Sometimes, with ignore extension not checked and using the new case options, the closing ">" is in the wrong place. Cycling ignore extension and applying the case option fixes it for the moment.

Actually it looks like the highlite in the new format box does not extend to the end of the format ...

froggie

void wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2024 4:05 amAppliesTo

Where the <bleep> did you find this This is awesome! Documentation seems scarce though.

Some information about 2/3's of the way down in

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windo ... ical-verbs

Cascading menus look interesting. too.

froggie

\._ Great. Simple and uncomplicated.

froggie

Thanks. That makes it clearer.

So if ^ and startwith: are conceptually the same, shouldn't match_start_of_filename_with_caret affect both (or there should be an equivalent parameter for startwith:), since the same logic applies?

froggie

@NotNull:

I don't understand what the discussion you pointed to has to do with startwith: -- ^ does not seem to work the same as startwith: and startwith: is unaffected by the match_start_of_filename_with_caret setting.

The question is why "startwith:._ " gives no hits at all when match path is ...

froggie

try nopath:startwith:._ or uncheck match path in search.

@void: is this the way it is supposed to work?

froggie

One case would be a folder that has empty folders in it. Size is 0 but not empty.

froggie

The tab feature is really useful. Thank you for it.

Columns are currently shared between tabs too, I'm undecided if each tab should have their own columns..

I would vote for each tab having its own columns - maybe column layout could optionally be copied to a new tab (right click on current tab ...

froggie

You can set it yourself:
Tools=>Options=>Keyboard
Scroll Down to Match Whole Words
Then select ADD and type your shortcut of choice in the shortcut key box (find one that does not show any entries in the currently used box)
Click OK and you are done

froggie

dupe:size;sha256

Finding duplicates

Three questions about using "e: dupe:size;sha256":

1. It did not honor result omission. Specifically I had the recycle bin in result omission but it showed up in the duplicate results. Is this by design?

2. The wait or cancel prompt showed up in 2 or 3 ...

froggie

context_menu_parent_folder = 4 is not documented in the INI Settings topic.

It is showing as 4 in advanced settings (although I never set it). What should the default be?

froggie

void wrote: Fri Aug 18, 2023 8:31 am Please try changing the bookmark index to: (No change)

That works! Thanks.

froggie

I have a bookmark named test1 that contains this command: /explore "E:\User\Desktop\"

I call it from a .bat file with the command: "P:\Everything 1.5a\Everything64.exe" -bookmark "test1"

If there is an open Everything window, it opens the folder tree and selects E:\User\Desktop\ as it should ...

froggie

Good idea.

Offfiltx.dll is installed in two different places - one from Office 2010 and one from Office 2013. On another system, there are two from Office 2016 (x86 & x64) installed in yet different locations.

.docx came out with Office 2007, so that is the earliest I would expect to (perhaps ...

froggie

All of the Microsoft Word XML from the WordDoc.zip is in the regmatch1 column (as far as I can expand the width of the column).
So Everything can match whatever is found in the XML (including text in documents)

Using the Nirsoft filter listing tool, there is a "Microsoft Office Open XML Format ...

froggie

Everything can't do this yet.

@void: Maybe I am missing something, but when there is a xml structure inside a zip (and only then) Everything seems to read the content - is it regarding it as a directory? Is something else strange going on? Other content within a zip does not work, as expected ...

froggie

I was aware of the "PK", but was (and am) unsure of what modifications Microsoft might have made, thus my comment.

Nevertheless, content searches for fonts and text in documents(renamed to zip files) work for me.

Maybe it won't be necessary to rename the files: Re: Is it possible to search for ...

froggie

Word .docx files are compressed very much like .zip files.

If a .docx file, say wd,docx, is renamed to .zip, then this will work to find fonts:

wd.zip content:acme

(Most (all?) word documents contain some default formats, such as Times New Roman.)

froggie

OK, what am I missing?
Why does the OR part need the grouping (in order for the si: part to also have an effect)?
.
Everything - SI Why.png

Because you have operator precedence set to OR>AND

si:X | W Y Z is evaluated as <si:X OR W> AND Y AND Z (or look at it as <si:X AND Y AND Z> OR <W AND Y ...

froggie

So there isn't a way to simply remove the icon only from R bin? It has to be all special folders?
There is no simple way to remove context menu item on specific folders.
Like if I right click on a C drive to search... I cant. I have to pick a specific folder.
I believe you can add another key to ...

froggie

The thread you quoted explains this.
The Recycle Bin is a "special folder". You have to remove the registry key that puts Everything into the context menu for all folders, including " Special " folders and replace it with one that just adds Everything to the context menu on standard folders. Void's ...

froggie

Search keyboard for Omission (no "t").

froggie

Tested on Windows 7. Turning UAC off will run standard Admin user as High, turning UAC back on runs same user as Medium.

froggie

Shift right click on heading line and this option is in the context menu. Also, if columns do not fill the entire screen, right click on the empty column title and the same option is available. There is also a keyboard hot key (not tried)

froggie

horst.epp wrote: Sun May 07, 2023 4:02 pm In 1344a we have the new very helpfull
Options / Advanced
This allows to see all modified entries from default, change single items
and also reset shown filtered list to its defaults.

Yes, very useful. Note that it does not show some (all?) entries that are set with the GUI.

froggie

This is clear to be now, but wasn't obvious before I read this topic. Perhaps a note in .ext documentation would be useful.

froggie

(if your VM is still alive: what foldersizes are reported by Windows? )

Not sure what you are asking for, but

Win7 & Win/XP show an empty folder as zero bytes on disk, a folder with a single 2 byte file as 4096 and one with two 2 byte files as 8192 - it is just adding up the incorrect file ...

froggie

I'll make Everything show the same as Windows Explorer to help avoid confusion.

Speaking of confusion -- for files stored in the MFT Win10 Explorer-Properties reports Size on Disk as 0 bytes, as it should.

Win7 reports 4096 bytes for the same file, as does Win/XP (in a VM), which is an error ...

froggie

void wrote: Tue Apr 25, 2023 3:32 am Files stored in the MFT will still take up some room on disk.

I'm confused. If the file is stored in the MFT, which is a fixed 1K record, what other room will the file take up on disk?

froggie

(Personally, I have a "mini-ini" with all settings that are important to me and when I do no longer "trust" my settings, I overwrite everything.ini with "mini-ini" and start fresh)

Very good idea. I will workout the meaning of all changed settings and create a "mini-ini" with comments that I ...

froggie

Under Help==>troubleshooting I see 70 changes to my Everything-1.5a.ini. A few of these I made explicitly, some of the rest I recognize come from the GUI. Some I can not figure out (example: offline_alpha=128 when the default is offline_alpha=160 )

Questions:
When changes are made to ini defaults ...

froggie

Excludes remove entries from the database.

Omits leaves the database alone, but does not display the omitted items - The omit list itself stays until you change it.

Temporarily Omit item(s) by right clicking for the context menu - these items go away with a new search.

froggie

Add Custom makes it easier to add paths that are sometimes impossible to add with the stock Select Folder dialog.

Add Custom allows you to add virtual folders such as the Control Panel and FTP sites.
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Perhaps some of this could be added to the tooltip on the Folder screen instead of just "Add ...

froggie

You should backup the folder "C:\Users\Chris077\AppData\Roaming\Everything", not just the individual files. I have several more files in mine and I am sure I do not have them all - and new ones may be created in the future.

[img]C:\Users\Public\Pictures\[/img]

froggie

Perhaps Everything is not the right tool for this task.

I would suggest you look at FreeFIleSync, which is designed to do just what you are asking for.

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