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Saw a request recently from someone who wanted support for Total Commander (TC) descriptions.
AFAIK this is currently not implemented, so I made something that can list and search for TC descriptions (see below)

Before releasing it in the wild, I am looking for one or two testers who can confirm if ...

Not sure if I understood correctly, but instead of post-processing the outcome, it should be possible to filter out all unwanted characters using a different REGEX_EXTRACT().

Something like the following:

some*.XML add_column:A A:=REGEX_EXTRACT($content:,"ABCD: ""(.+?)""")

This will search for ...

meteorquake wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 9:39 am I'm thinking the mode I'd suggested would be pretty straightforward code-wise,

Why do you think so?
To me it sounds like replacing the stock Windows control with a "roll-your-own" code replacement.

This will likely have to do with the (Windows or third party) iFilter that is being used to extract this information for searching/indexing.
I guess "trd" is left out by the iFilter as it is not considered content/data, but part of the " structure" of the XML.

To bypass the XML iFilter and read ...

Typical Everything syntax is search-modifier-1:search-modifier-2:search-function:"some value"
The order of the search-modifiers is arbitrary; Everything is clever enough to figure it out.

fromdisk: is a search modifier .
It changes the way content is searched as it bypasses the indexed content in ...

That feature already exists:
- Select your files
- Press F2 (or Menu => File => Rename)
- Old Format = (empty)
- New Format = (empty)
- Edit the names in the New filenames: box.
- OK

It is all about (@void's) priorities ...

Here you can find what has been done in the last couple of years and here is (the first part of) the TODO-list ...

Better now?

$dimensions:
$height:
$width:

Status Bar Format

This time it is reasonably fast here (provider is the bottleneck).

EDIT: Confimed. Now it is slow here too.

mczerski wrote: Sat Mar 08, 2025 6:11 am 1.5.0.1275a
What should I do?

Update.

Advanced Settings was introduced in version 1.5.0.1344a. Current version: 1.5.0.1391a.

Yeah, these kind f tools happen to get many false positives ...

See here for an explanation.

I use 2.0.0 RC 3 (24/08/2020)

EDIT: the current bioruebe version is 2.0.0 RC 4 (2023). Time to update

My list (for now):

File Manager: Q-Dir
Quite limited, but most of the time enough.
Still in the process of making Directory Opus my default file manager. In my opinion the most powerful file manager out there.

Browser: Firefox
Highly configurable. Browsing without any advertisements :thumbsup ...

Every self-respecting computer-related forum has a "What are your favourite tools?" topic.
I have seen quite a few very useful tools being mentioned on this forum, but there must be lots more!
So lets hear what your favourites are ...

And if you have a what the Germans call "Geheimtipp", an insider ...

And another one: Paid support contracts for getting higher priority with questions asked.
Or implementing Everything (companies will definitely pay for not having figuring it out themselves).

I just realized that this is where an A.I. should shine.
ChatGPT has the following thoughts:
(layout got a bit messed up, but message should still be clear)

Generating more income for a donation-ware application with a large user base can be done creatively while maintaining the ethos of the ...

There is a file manager that uses that principle too: 32-bit is free; 64-bit requires donation.

The Everything Server is intended to be commercial: free for personal use, companies need to get a paid license.
(and my idea would be to create a license that is bound to a specific Active Directory ...

FYI:
The list of Local NTFS volumes in the screenshot shows drives C:, D: and E:
Drive C is currently selected and below the list are the settings for that drive C:
Select another drive to show the settings for that specific drive.

But checking is not really needed as these settings are correct ...

I have a couple things that I am not sure are bugs, or just s/w anomalies.

I hope it is neither one of them ...

One circumstance I can think of that could cause this behaviour is Everything still updating its indexes in the background, which could use too many resources for other actions to ...

Second (and definitely the last) attempt:

See here.

Where is your Everything.ini stored? Do you have write-access to that file? I.e. can you edit the file, save it and see the changes being kept?
(best to do this when Everything is not running: Menu => File => Exit)

Everything uses the Windows thumbnail cache. I do know virtually nothing about thumbnails (never use them), but it seems to me that Windows as well as Everything should use the same thumbnail size to prevent double caching.

Everything does have a thumbnail size setting. Others can likely help with ...

You are using version 1.4 instead of 1.5 ...

NotNull wrote: Thu Mar 06, 2025 10:19 am Although not impossible in Everything 1.4, this gets a lot easier when using version 1.5:

How is this entered?

Exactly like this: child:video:
It will show all folders that contain video-files.
The "search term" you add should therefor be related to the folder-names.

But I might be misunderstanding your goal here. Please post some examples (and what should be the results) for ...

Although not impossible in Everything 1.4, this gets a lot easier when using version 1.5:

mr.kenken wrote: Thu Mar 06, 2025 9:37 am only list folders that have video files in them

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child:video:

mr.kenken wrote: Thu Mar 06, 2025 9:37 am list all the video files that "comes from" a folder that fit the search criteria

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video:  "*dancing monkeys*\*"

some*.XML add_column:a a=:REGEX_EXTRACT($content,"ABCD:.*$")

You were very close!

some*.XML add_column:a a:=:REGEX_EXTRACT($content:,"ABCD:.*")

Changes:
-- := instead of =:
-- ":" at the end of $content:
-- "ABCD:.*" instead of "ABCD:.*$"
"ABCD:.*$" will search for ABCD, but only on the the ...

It is in line with <property>: functions, like version: or height:
If the value is non-empty, that file will be listed.
(1.4 behaved diffrently btw)

Try for example to create 2 .txt files. One with "hello world" content, the other zero bytes in size.
c:\testfolder content: will only show the ...

I'm not aware of an option to do this. The following comes close if you are running Everything 1.5.
It creates an extra column with the volume label: local ntfs volumes have same label

What is the difference between a filter and a bookmark and when should use which ?

Maybe this is the regex query you were looking for?

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regex:^(.+)\.rar$ add-column:1 dupe:1

(as said: be as precise and specific as possible in describing what you want and what the results should look like...)

Non-trivial is on the menu too

puzzle wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 11:24 pm to find files and folders that share the same base name (without extension) as any .rar files in the directory to find duplicates.

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dupe:path   exact:fileexists:$stem:.rar

Have not read all posts in this thread, so might miss the mark by a mile (ignore message in that case), but ...

would adding !attrib:L to the search query help?
This excludes all reparse points results. For those folders, show something like "(unknown)" instead of "0"

Also: try searchquery root ...

".rar" does not necessarily mean that it's the extension. The following files would be matched too:

I.love.rare.earth.magnets.txt
archive.rar.lnk

What exactly are you trying to find and show in the resultlist?

When a file is still opened by an application, the USN Journal will not be updated and therefor not picked up by Everything.
When the file is closed, Everything will update the timestamp immediately.

Note: this is for "NTFS-iundexing"; "folder-indexing" will show the same sa Explorer.

More options ..

Wait till they find out there is also an Everything 1.5 .. 8-)

I consider MajorGeeks a trustworthy site, so this is really saying something ..
Well deserved!

We should have our own "Ultimate 25 must-have tools" topic on this forum too.
"Every" forum has one, so we definitely should!
(and I ...

Is this normal? Is there a setting I might have missed that's causing this to happen every time?

Yes, that is quite normal. Everything needs time to write its database to disk.
To see how many data Everything needs to write to disk, type or paste the following search in Everything's search bar ...

I indexed my external volumes (see attached). But how I distinguish them?

As @tuska stated: when a volume has a volume label, that volume label will be shown in OPtions > NTFS.
But the drive needs to be connected (temporary) for Everything to be able to pick up the volume label.

But I guess ...

Content of file1.txt as well as file2.txt:

aaa set1local bbb set2local ccc <CR><LF>
aaa set3local bbb set4local ccc <CR><LF>
anders <CR><LF>
local <CR><LF>

<CR> = Carriage Return, <LF> = Line Feed

Search:

t:\testfiles\ global:fromdisk:regex:content:(.*local.*) columns:name;1;2;3

CSV ...

Are you running Everything as administrator? ("ADMINISTRATOR" will be shown in the title bar)
Running as administrator gives you limited functionality and should only be used in specific edge cases.

Please make sure Everything is installed correctly and is not running as administrator:

In ...

Herkules97 wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2025 12:19 pm I'd have to extract them from any archive where they may be.

Everything can help here too:

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zip:  container-filenames:*.efu

will list all zip-files that contain EFU files.

Herkules97 wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 11:34 pm I don't know what it is meant to help with, as I already have the db with efus loaded?

With this:

Herkules97 wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:14 am made a folder to load all efus. I am not done adding them all

OK, so maybe not suitable for you ...

Take a good look at the desired sorted list. Full Path (or similar) will not put folder and files in that folder together.
The following does, but misses the mixed sort option.
addcol:A A:=folder_exists(full-path:)?$fullpath::$path: sort:column-A

I therefore suggest "sort by complete path ...

FYI: KB5050094 is the preview version, succeeded by the "final" version KB5051987

Herkules97 wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:14 am Do you know any other tools for EBV?

By void? Not that I know of.
Non-Everything related: voidimageviewer and voidmouse (search the forums if interested).

Herkules97 wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:14 am a folder to load all efus

Maybe MasterEFU can help here?

Herkules97 wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:14 amany.

Read it till the end!

Very likely this is caused by Win11 24H2 update KB5050094 (an update preview). Unstall it, reboot and try again.

Not convinced? Search the internet for "drag drop KB5050094"

Friendly reminder for when "official" version will be released.

Suggestion to make db_save_on_rebuild=1 the default instead of =0.

There were a couple of issues reported by people that lost their indexing results because they weren't saved.
Especially with property- and context indexing rebuilding can take a long time.
(or is there a setting to save after ...

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