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Thanks for the timely replies.

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I am an infrequent user of Search Everything. There are so many options for this wonderful tool, that I forget what I enabled and where I found it. Would it be possible to provide a dialog during the upgrade process asking whether I want to retain all of my old non default settings and then export ...

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When you right click on a file after a search, one of the options is to copy the full path to the clipboard. It would be really great if there was also an option to copy the path to the clipboard.

Love this product!

Thanks

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Hi everyone,

I want to find a specific file name in folder or subfolder, but am not sure how to include all subfolders with the Folder: statement.
1. How would I set up my search to find the file Config.xml in the folder c:\MyPath or any of the MyPath subfolders
2. How would I do number one above ...

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Hello all,

I want to find all occurrences where a given folder has a child folder of the same name (e.g. a/b/c/c or a/b/b). In the prior example, I would want to match folder C in the first example and folder B in the second example. I'm not sure how to do this. The depth at which this happens will ...

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Thanks tuska.

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I just downloaded a new version of Everything and my bookmarks are gone. From a forum search, I found them, but I don't know how to reimport them.

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Great tool! Recently had need of doing content search on large folder with many files. The status bar just displays Querying... It would be nice if it displayed more information to help gauge where we are in the process. Ideally a count, file name and path could be displayed or at least a file name.

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My apologies, I see the same. Not sure what happened. This whole thread can be deleted.

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Network drives can be very large. I understand there is a performance hit for displaying stuff in the status bar so although it would be cool to watch the folder names scroll by, that is not practical. However, perhaps the status bar could be updated do display a folder name every 25 or 50 folders ...

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If I search for files, I get a count in the status bar. If I use folder:, I get information about the first folder in the list. I would prefer that the count be displayed when using Folder: also.

Thanks for a great product!

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I use Everything a few times a month, sometimes heavily for a day or two, but usually on occasion. As such I am not a power user. Recently I had to reinstall Everything and found out to my dismay that I have lost some of my customized functionality. The problem is that I miss it but don't know ...

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Excellent

, could that be the default?

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Hello,

In the results pane, it would be great if the entire row was highlighted when you clicked a given file name on the left. Many times, associated paths are very similar and it is easy for your eye to skip up or down, especially if file names and paths are long. Highlighting the entire row ...

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Sorry, I see you here so often and NotNull (great moniker, by the way) appears to me at least as a similar sense of humor to voidtools that I just assumed the same. In any event, thanks for all that you do for the community.

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Below is a blurb from the help about Multiple Instances.

1. The File menu, New Search Window also creates a new instance of Search Everything.

Multiple Instances
By default there is only one instance of Everything.

When you run Everything.exe it will check for an existing instance. If an ...

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Excellent, glad to know it is already implemented. Perhaps as a benefit to the casual or infrequent user, a Named Searches line could be added to the main Support page that comes up with Everything as the main bullet point. If it was right after Searching, it could mention the Bookmarks usage ...

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You are correct, that is what I meant. Sorry for the lack of clarity.

The default behavior works most of the time as you mentioned, it would just be a nice to have if you had an additional Export to Default File Export option. Thanks for considering it.

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I can live without this since it available via Tools / Options, but it would be nice to be able to access them from the gear. Thanks

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It would be great if I could specify a default export path. Thanks

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Hello,

Great tool and much appreciated! I have a couple searches that I use somewhat frequently that are a bit time consuming to set up. For example this finds Excel files with the Useful or Helpful in the file name: regex:Useful|Helpful !folder: !.lnk !.efu !.msg !.url !.pdf !.xlsb !.doc !~.

1. I ...

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So is F2 search within found files/folders an active feature in Search Everything? If so, I didn't see it. If not, that would be a great way to implement Chained Searches.

j2associates · Re: Chained searches Version 1.4.1.935 (x64) is what I am currently using

Version 1.4.1.935 (x64) is what I am currently using

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I agree that most of the time this works perfectly. But there are cases where you want to drill down and then come back up to maybe drill down in a different area. You could accomplish this by copying the more general search and then recreating it, the suggestion would just make that process easier.

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It would be great if Search Everything supported chained searches where the results of Seach #1 would become the input to Search #2, etc. This feature would allow you to write general searches and then successive searches could become more and more refined / granular as needed.

As an example, let's ...

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It would be great if Search Everything supported chained searches where the results of Seach #1 would become the input to Search #2, etc. This feature would allow you to write general searches and then successive searches could become more and more refined / granular as needed.

As an example, let's ...

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Hello,

Search Everything appears to be a singleton app. Is there any way to run multiple instances of Search Everything. A common scenario for me is to do an initial search to define an initial universe. Then it would be great if I could open a second instance to do a more refined search on ...

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To save others the time:

c#
var scientificNotationText = textFieldFromEfuFileLine;
// FileTimes are based solely on nanoseconds.
long fileTime = 0;
long.TryParse(scientificNotationText, NumberStyles.Any, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, out fileTime);
var dateModified = DateTime.FromFileTime ...

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Hello,

I am using version Version 1.4.1.935 (x64). When I export to an efu file and open it in NotePad, instead of displaying 5/22/2020 1:06 PM, it displays as 132346407966381000. I tried to attach a sample efu file but it would not let me.
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/5x783RW/Search-Everything.png ...

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Thanks! It's an easy conversion from csv to Excel. Have you considered supporting Open Office? Just curious, not really asking for it per se.

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When you have filtered your list to a given level of completeness, it would really be nice if there was a Copy All function that you could utilize to copy everything to a csv file or to Excel. For example, in Sql Server after running a Query you can right click in the upper left hand corner of the ...

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Hello all,

I need to search for folders named Source. Of course, in a development environment, there are scads of them. I am currently searching using the following filter: regex:^Source$ folder: , which brings back all of the Source folders scattered over many network drives and paths. I can ...

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You are correct, that was not a correct regex. Sorry, got in too much of a hurry.

I downloaded the zip file, but it is looking for an Everything32.dll which is not included in the zip file.

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Thank you

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I have this scenario:
a. There is a Reports folder with thousands of files in it
b. I need to scan the Reports folder to match a user selection using a regular expression (e.g. Sales*Inv*)
There might be Sales Invoice, Sales - Invoice, Sales Inv Archive, etc.
c. Then I need to iterate the result ...

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When I run a search using Everything, the results show in 2 panes, matched files in the left pane and the associated path in the right pane. How do I copy the associated path for a given file to the clipboard? Thanks!

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I was googling and found this interesting piece of c# code in a Stack Overflow thread Browse Multiple folders using FolderBrowserDialog in windows application: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12261598/browse-multiple-folders-using-folderbrowserdialog-in-windows-application . See the response ...

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You are correct. I just noticed the predefined ones and thought that would be a nice addition.

Great tool! Almost instantaneous once the network drives have been indexed.

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I found the answer in thread Searching network drives: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8684&p=29359&hilit= ... ive#p29359 I needed to add my network drives in Tools/Options/.

The first time I referenced one it took a while because it had to index them all.

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It would be great if there was a hot key combination that could be used to activate the Advanced Search dialog

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1. In Advanced Search, allow the folder browser to be mutli select and then return the list delimited with the pipe | character.

2. In Tools / Options / Folders, allow the folder browser to be mutli select and then return the list vertically.

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Hello,

New user, great tool! Does not seem to pick up network shared drives. Do I need to enable something to do that. In Advanced Search, network drives show up in Folders list when I click Browse Button and are brought back (e.g. L:\ or M:\), but no results are shown when I click OK to close the ...

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