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abr01

Well, how did the three get there?

When you open Everything, by default, a single window opens.

What happens after that, you control.

You want another windows, Ctrl+N - new window
You want another tab, Ctrl+T - new tab (in existing window)

You want an entirely different instance , you use the ...

abr01

I'm not sure about the naming. I like to have only one instance open, if that, what i see in the taskbar, are multiple instances. I suppose they are, since i can close them separatly. I mean those windows, when i hover over Everything's magnifier symbol in the taskbar, which often show multiple ...

abr01

Sorry, if i ask again, but i never understood the reason for having tabs, when i always end up very quickly with five or six Everything windows in my task bar. Isn't it possible to disallow any new task bar ET windows, but haveing new tabs instead? That way it would be much quicker to find the right ...

abr01

Wdym with image tags? You mean filter?

pic:exact:schiff.*

Yes, i mean the tags that are used for images. I try to find 'exact' tags (a single search term) inside a given path, and try to refine my search code that i use in combination with Direcktory Opus. So far it works well, only that i ...

abr01

spooky wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 3:29 pm You can do
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exact:schiff.*

Hmm, i forgot to mention that i want to search that word in my image tags.

abr01

Sorry, i can't figure it out. Example, what would be the syntax for

schiff

Only that word. I don't want to also find containerschiff or frachtschiff etc.

I tried < > " " et cetera, but that doesn't work.

abr01

NotNull wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 11:35 am I'm not sure if the results are even that accurate, but technically it can be done (untested, btw):
Change
A:=ROUND( .... ,0)
to
A:=ROUND( .... ,1)

Filters work on all items, not just the selected one.

Thanks!

abr01

Hey, not bad. Is there a way to get the first digit after the full Kilometer, like 6.3km? And maybe only for the selected image?

abr01

By the way, this shorter version also works:

"K:\Bilder\Fotografie\*\*" orientation:landscape

But i wonder, why it takes so very long, even though 'orientation' is indexed now. After around 5 minutes the search is still at 6%.
Is there another property, which is required to make the search ...

abr01

Properties don't need to be indexed to be used. It is just slower as the information has to be extracted from each individual image.
Indexing this information makes these searches instant (in case you need it more often).

Everything is also aware of the height, width and aspect ratio of images ...

abr01

dedupeit wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:08 pm
therube wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 8:46 pm Can Everything read EXIF (tag), Orientation (value)?
(I suppose it can, if Windows does see it?)
Oh nice, I thought I looked and didn't see Orientation as an option but I see it now.

Same here.

abr01

therube wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 8:46 pm Can Everything read EXIF (tag), Orientation (value)?
(I suppose it can, if Windows does see it?)

Thanks for the additional hint, i re-started the indexer, including 'orientation' now.

abr01

That looks interesting indeed. I'm not sure, if i can put it into a custom Directory Opus mode, though.
i will check that. Do i need to make a new index for that? I guess i will, because i don't have the dimensions included yet. Thanks!

abr01

I don't know if there's metadata that tells you if an image is in portrait or landscape mode directly but you can get dimensions.

Like i said, the dimensions may vary. And i have been using around ten different cameras over the years, with all different resolutions.
Thanks for your answer ...

abr01

I wonder, if it's possible, since some images also may be sligthly cropped to some non standard values (e.g. being not perfectly 4:3).
And are 'normal' and 'transverse' the equivalent to portrait and landscape? I guess, i would have to re-index the database to in order to filter for aspect ratios.

abr01

w64bit wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 12:25 pm A recommendation for 14900K, please.
8P+16E = 24 cores
32 logical processors

Something like that is exactly my plan. But mostly because of my DAW and home music productions. Doubling the RAM as well. Thanks!

abr01

void wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 6:27 am Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> index_max_threads

For your PC, please try setting this to 8.
0 = all available CPUs. (16 in your case)

Yes, thanks, i will try that. Anyway, resuming the indexing today goes much smoother.

abr01

All my 16 cores are almost working at full power. Is there a way to throttle the process, since the progress is quite slow anyway? I don't mind if it takes twice as long.

Edit, hmm, now, at 27%, the CPU load has fallen to some much lower amount.

abr01

Please try:

video: \Original\ path:K:\ size:>50mb

video: expands to:

ext:3g2;3gp;3gp2;3gpp;amv;asf;asx;avi;bdmv;bik;d2v;divx;drc;dsa;dsm;dss;dsv;evo;f4v;flc;fli;flic;flv;hdmov;ifo;ivf;m1v;m2p;m2t;m2ts;m2v;m4v;mkv;mod;mov;mp2v;mp4;mp4v;mpe;mpeg;mpg;mpls;mpv2;mpv4;mts;ogm;ogv;ogx;pss;pva;qt ...

abr01

If you're actually only after the video: files, you could use video: instead of the !ext:jpg;gpx;orf;ori;mp3;rtf .

Hmm, that didn't work. I guess, ii had the wrong syntax, like

video:*.mov;*.mp4 \Original\ path:K:\ size:>50mb

However, this works.

ext:*.mov;*.mp4 \Original\ path:K:\ size ...

abr01

That's great!

abr01

That looks ok now, thanks a lot. And yes, the blank, i should've noticed it.

abr01

I am using sort by date created, in the 'everything' column. Normally, i would have all kinds of file types mixed, non-alphabetically. But even though i have the same setting, all items in the names list seem to be grouped in a very alphabetical way. As if there is some secondary sorting being ...

abr01

Very nice. Would it be possible to include a simple rule like file size? Because i would like to color code smaller MP4 files, which are mostly music files (with some extra record label or other picture content) and movie files in the MP4 format differently. Something like

<=50MB -> color code 1 ...

abr01

tuska wrote: Thu Dec 12, 2024 2:08 pm Hi,

try
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!ext:jpg;gpx;orf;ori;mp3;rtf
ext:

Thanks!

abr01

Thanks, it works, nice!

But i couldn't use the format !ext:*.(jpg|gpx|orf|ori|mp3|rtf|etc) to compactify the list. Not a big deal, but if it's possible, it would be more elegant, because i have maybe

abr01

Having lots of folders with my photos, i have about the same amount of folders called 'original', with the unprocessed images. But a few of them would contain video files in different video formats. So i'd like to find all files inside those folders, which are not *.jpg, which should give me a list ...

abr01

Thanks, void.

I had completely forgotten the extended search, of course. But the direct syntax is also useful.

abr01

How would the syntax be, if, for instance, i would search for something like text created between August 2022 and October 2022? I found something on the syntax page for dm, but no example for a time span.

abr01

Thank you. Very much appreciated.

abr01

Is it enough to export the settings to secure the database including an extended index, like in geo coordinates? The exported file looks quite small. Or is there another, larger file to be included? Because building that index took very long.

abr01

Wow, that's a bunch of stuff. Nice work, nevertheless.

abr01

Using the 1.5 Alpha for quite a time now, i must say, i find no bugs, no flaws, no crashes. Seems at least beta to me.

abr01

Thanks void. I will collect the most important syntaxes in a text file from now on.

abr01

This might work:
pic: "K:\Bilder\Fotografie\*\*"

If not, take take a second (or 100!) to formulate way more precise what pattern describes your files/folders as this turns out to be completely different from what you initially asked for.

P.S. You didn't answer my questions ..

Yes, that is ...

abr01

The date format you mentioned first is different from what you've shown (so the regex: would be wrong)?
So these dated "files" are actually files, & not "dated" directories?

If you only want files specifically in K:\Bilder\Fotografie\ & no subdirectories, you can use parents: (3, in this case ...

abr01

I have the impression, that [a-z]+-\d\d-\d\d\d\d\\ stands for the date format. But those date formatted folders should not be filtered. All of them should be searched.

Here's another approach to show what i try to achieve: 23-Okt-23 any many similar folders are not to be filtered out. I want to ...

abr01

Just noticed that I skipped a quote in the regex: version. Repaired in the original post.

Let's approach this step-by-step; your filter will come later on.

- Make sure the Everything filter is enabled
- Make sure no other serach modifiers are enabled under MEnu=> Search (like Regular Expressions ...

abr01

NotNull, none of both codes work here yet.

My full (example) command is

camera-model:XF1 wildcards:"K:\\Bilder\\Fotografie\\*-##-####\\**"

to filter for that camera model and excluding deeper paths.

I also try to build a template, where i have just to fill in my camera model, but that doesn't ...

abr01

Using camera-model:abc after having re-index the database including the camera model property is fun and very fast. But i found, that i would need to limit the search path to the first level. So everything in K:\Bilder\Fotografie\Dated Folders (e.g. K:\Bilder\Fotografie\Feb-12-2024), but excluding ...

abr01

Another observation:

I ran a test on the same document searching for a combination, that is included, 'decrease sebum'. Which was giving me the correct RTF, but also a bunch of other documents, which seemed suspiscious to me, since i wouldn't expect the very rare word 'sebum' to be found in science ...

abr01

Could it be, that just searching for

gua sha

(two single search terms in the content search box ) simply isn't appropriate? Seems, like we sometmes have to place < > around the search terms? Because now i can find that search words in the Content search. But in other cases, just using both search ...

abr01

No, it doesn't show up. And if i use another word, that is in the text, the whole text content of the RTF will be shown in column A, as i can tell by the mouseover info tip. Once i use the original search term, which in this case is 'gua sha', nothing will be displayed. I will be able to check this ...

abr01

Where? Into the search field? Replacing a line in the filter? I have no idea where to past that command into.

Append Void's string to your existing search string as shown below:-Untitled.pngDon't do what I did: paste it into the search box as the only item.
(I stopped it after the content of ...

abr01

void wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2024 1:51 am Check the content Everything is reading with:

addcolumn:a a:=$content:

Where? Into the search field? Replacing a line in the filter? I have no idea where to past that command into.

abr01

I just came across a word, that my content search won't find in an RTF file. The file type is included in 'index file content', and another search term from the same file is found. That's strange. I am re-indexing now, but i did that the night before already. How can words slip through? Is it maybe ...

abr01

Thanks void. Looking forward to test the new format. I'm also hoping, that some script guru will provide some script for Directory Opus, that will automatically generate collections of locations, based on the coordinates, that would be fed into Everything, and afterwords back to Opus, to generate a ...

abr01

Thanks void, for the tips, i made that .bat and created a current backup.

abr01

(There is also the [Everything.exe] -save-db switch which will cause the .db to be saved to disk should you not want to actually exit Everything at a particular time [& during which time the disk .db may then not otherwise be [as] current as that stored in RAM].

Did that just this morning to ...

abr01

Thanks, therube and void!

And yes, i had also the impression Everything would resume indexing after a shutdown. Not sure, what the reason was, but it didn't happen on my own machine. Will investigate.

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