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ChrisGreaves

NO , not at all for me!
Hi Tuska; I agree with you. That is why I wrote "At least one factor in our decision has to be the purpose you have in the use of Everything." and came up with two reasons, for me; one if I were delivering training in Everything on a commercial basis (1.4) and one if I were ...

ChrisGreaves

Just curious,is 1.4 in ANY way superior to 1.5?
Yes!
But there again I will argue that 1.5 is superior to 1.4

At least one factor in our decision has to be the purpose you have in the use of Everything.

If I were still in a money-earning commercial business, I would possibly go for the 1.4 ...

ChrisGreaves

Perhaps a dropdown for “Currency” could be added here as well? l]
Thanks Tuska, for the confirmation that it's "not me" nor "my laptop"

I agree that a second drop-down could be useful. But that thought is based on a higher-level, crudely stated as "Why offer currency conversion in one part and ...

ChrisGreaves

Have I mis-understood the screens for donations?
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The initial screen offers a choice of currencies. I live in Canada and my bank accounts are Canadian, and each month I reconcile my accounts in $CAD, so in this screen I elect to donate in $CAD.
I reason that by entering the amount in ...

ChrisGreaves

It's the latter ;-).
I just KNEW it :lol: :lol:
You have Picture enabled.
I had been searching for Pictures in between essays and indeed had forgotten to clear the filter :doh:
You can also include path: in your search (or enable Match Path in Options [which seems to be overly broad, for some ...

ChrisGreaves

LATER: "You have Picture enabled." as pointed out by Rube (below). Leaving "Picture" as a filter was indeed an error on my part, but in a reply to TheRube i have clarified my initial puzzlement. I hope. Chris

whatfaq.doc \under Untitled.jpg
W64bit, thanks for the suggestion. I had already tried ...

ChrisGreaves

I have some 288 Word2003 documents "WhatFAQ.doc" on my hard drive, one to-do list for each project.
The sensible thing to find the WhatFaq.doc for my Under-the-hood project would be to type in the search box "whatfaq.doc" (288 results) and then type a space and then type "under" to identify the one ...

ChrisGreaves

therube wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2025 8:39 pmYou can double-click Picture (in the status bar) & it will reset the Filter to Everything.

Cool, Fast, and does exactly what I want.[1]
Thanks!
[1] Have you ever thought of changing your name to "Everything"?
Thanks again, Chris

ChrisGreaves

I am still not fully clued in on filters/macros/bookmarks and the like. Filters.jpg But here I am again making use of filters ("Picture") while triggering in a new search from the most-recently-used search strings. Of course nothing shows up until after I have slapped my forehead and then selected ...

ChrisGreaves

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This is a non-critical issue for me; I am curious, is all ...
I am looking for an earlier version of the disk defragmentation tool Auslogic.
I have set up a dead-simple search string "auslog", filter is "Everything", and I have clicked on the "date modified" column header several ...

ChrisGreaves

NotNull wrote: Mon Feb 03, 2025 9:20 pmIs your Word2003 itself 64-bit though? etc etc etc

Thank you, NotNull, for this guidance and these tips. We are in luck; wet snow today so (sigh!) I shall have to stay indoors with steaming mugs of tea, and study. I will report back here.
Cheers, Chris

ChrisGreaves

I will be moving to Office 21 before the end of the month, I hope, I hope ...
In the meantime I thought to start building up some expertise in the SDK using dear old Word2003 VBA.

The file Everything-1.2.1.371.zip is downloaded and Extract All'd. I see a folder "dll" and within that folder I see a ...

ChrisGreaves

This has been at the back of my mind for some time ... Mine too!

How do I Use this Document?
How do I Find an Answer in the Forums?
Advanced Search
How do I Build a 1:1000 Sample of File Names?
Howdo I calculate?
How do I Change the Position of the Filter Bar (and Other Screen Elements”)?
How do I ...

ChrisGreaves

I added the term !startwith:volumelabel:ba to my default filter (which is named Everything out of the box, but I created another one, Almost Everything and made it the default). Froggie,thanks for the leg-up on filters. I feel that I need many general aspects of filters. For example, I find myself ...

ChrisGreaves

I have three unencrypted drives mapped to F: as Volumes. Now to add two more drives F: as decrypted partitions. I will make use of USB 01 and USB 02 – my nightly and my weekly backup drives. Will the results list be usable if fed into the Confirm Backups application? [1]
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I ...

ChrisGreaves

Maybe online: / !offline: or drive-type: , depending on what you want to show/hide ?
@NotNull @Froggie
Gentlemen, thank you for these thoughts. I am still trying to take Small Setps and not get too far ahead of myself.
Instituting "Volume Label" as a column was a milestone for me - well, OK ...

ChrisGreaves

... this has inspired me to add volume labels to them and index them more systematically.
You're welcome, Froggie. It is odd to think that you are influenced by a man (not me!) who was in his forties when he instituted a tape register in Newcastle NSW in 1970 and insisted - and spot- checked ...

ChrisGreaves

NotNull wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 7:08 pmThat's ... cold!

Au contraire, Cher Ami!

: Empty4x4.jpg (20.3 KiB) Viewed 1960 times

The good news is it will have warmed up quite a bit by the time I set off for The Lions Club meeting at 7:45 this evening.
(at minus 18c I can take the scarf without the tassels on the end ...)
Cheers, Chris

ChrisGreaves

So .. bit of a useless reply and I mainly responded to be "in the loop" when a real answer follows :D No reply is useless until I say so. :lol: And you know full well that even confirmation that I am on the wrong tracks is a Great Time Saver!

OK. Small steps.
I spent the morning cataloguing every ...

ChrisGreaves

... to (NOT) 'Automatically remove offline volumes' & same letter but different hard drive (including using online:) do it? Oh now I get it. You and NotNull are going to have a game of shuttlecock and battledore with my mind!!! :lol: :lol:

Before posting I had a feeling that there was a solution ...

ChrisGreaves

I have read " VOLUME LABEL Problem " and " Why does indexing the "Volume label" takes very long? And removing it and indexing? " and am still unsure of what to do, so: IMG_20250120_164021781.jpg Each of about a dozen USB driuves is identified with an external (adhesive) label as "USB 03" or similar ...

ChrisGreaves

No, not your fault. <F2><Tab> will go to the next item to be renamed, regardless of the rename_nav setting. rename_nav can add cursor up/down next to <tab> to go to the next item. It can't disable <tab> in inline-renaming.

Thank you for the re-assurance NotNull.
I wish I knew more about ...

ChrisGreaves

- Type or paste /rename_nav=1 in the search bar and press ENTER
- In Menu => Tools => Options => Advanced, select rename_nav and set its value to true

Thank you NotNull. I can see the setting in Everything on this Win7 machine, but as reported above, cannot make the <F2><Tab> work here; that my ...

ChrisGreaves

Its use becomes apparent when you want to rename a lot of items one by one, ... Meterorquake, thanks for this response. I can see a manual-batch-rename would make this useful. Mostly any mass-renames I do are done by a batch file or a VBA program so that they go through perfectly without my stubby ...

ChrisGreaves

That is a feature.
It allows you to F2 the next item(s) without having to purposely invoke F2 (again & again).
TheRube, thanks to the answer to my question. I can see that this feature would be useful when doing a batch-rename operation manually (for that is what I almost ended up doing!)

You ...

ChrisGreaves

An advanced search in the Everything 1.5 forum revealed no obvious reports. (Except, of course, by now, this topic!)

I happily use the <TAB> key to pass between the search box and the results pane. These are normally the only two positions, so there is no need for me to use the Shift key (to Shift ...

ChrisGreaves

I speak from experience.
Over the past two years, off and on, I have been exploring Everything's ability to spot duplicates, especially with a way to identify true duplicates in the audio sense. By this I mean any case where I have two copies of an audio file - two vocal or two instrumental versions ...

ChrisGreaves

The Christmas break seems to have cleared my head.
I ran a search on a folder with 19,912 MP3 tracks, ostensibly all music (not audio books, not movies) t:\music\ ext:Mp3 dupe:size;sha256 Empty4x4.jpg The first two items in this list have different names (Bach, Bruckner) But playing them shows that ...

ChrisGreaves

A list of file types known to Everything: Hi Void.
Everything is FAST!, and I have 65 MB of VBA code on my data partition.
That 65 MB represents VBA in some 20,000 MSOffice files.

My proprietary LIB files are searchable (fairly fast using the inbuilt INSTR function), but searching types of files ...

ChrisGreaves

Content indexing will index the content as text.
Hi Void; Please and Thank you: Have I understood this?

" Content indexing " will concern itself ONLY with files which Everything identifies as text documents (DOC, DOT, XLS, TXT etc)
" Content searching " (if I can call it that) will search for ...

ChrisGreaves

Macros don't make sense anyway, because I use thousands of different combinations of different file searches and names and other things. So it won't speed up the task.
Let's see if I understand your situation:-

(1) You want to speed up the task of specifying your search; for most of us this will ...

ChrisGreaves

I did a quick search for the past three months , but found nothing of relevance.
A more extensive search turned up Coloring & Dupe Lines Not Working Correctly, always

Empty4x4.jpg My results screen fills with colours, and I would prefer it would not.
I have played with DUPE in the past couple of ...

ChrisGreaves

My sincere apologies to all who have responded to date. I thought I knew what I was doing, but I did not really understand SHA256 and other features of Everything. In particular I fell afoul of my life-long cautions about the use of the term "duplicate".

I shall spend part of this Christmas break ...

ChrisGreaves

So yes, you have a dupe. ... Therube, thanks for wading through my lengthy post, and for your comments.
I agree that using (as an example) combinations of "size" and "name" will not be especially good at detecting what to MY ear are duplicates.
SHA256 is an improvement, but I suspect that not only ...

ChrisGreaves

I recommend dupe:size to instantly find possibly duplicated files.
Thank you Void for this quick response. Dupes_10.jpg Sadly, on my collection of 20,000 MP3 files it finds 2,632 items, so about 1,300 duplicate pairs.
Now some of them might indeed be the same audio track but misnamed. Haydn ...

ChrisGreaves

Unless your file is a direct Windows Copy/Paste of a file, Everything has a problem in identifying duplicate content. I remain convinced that we can NOT truly detect duplicate audio files using solely a computer program.

In particular, in Everything 1.5, when can we trust size in finding duplicates ...

ChrisGreaves

void wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2024 11:36 pmEverything doesn't have support to search content inside zip files. yet..

Thank you Void; I am still learning; and knowing that something can't be done saves me hours of searching the forum for "how to do it"!
Cheers, Chris

ChrisGreaves

I think the question was not so much to find files within Container files by filename, but more by type eg. DOC or DOT AND within them contain the string "paper" Can Everything "content search" files within Container files?
Correct! And thank you for clarifying my issue.

This is part of what I ...

ChrisGreaves

It is on my TODO list. Hi Void; you'll never guess why I am joining this thread :evilgrin:

I did a search for content zip* and could not find a post that discussed what I thought should be, by now, a feature of Everything. zippedFiles.jpg
I have a collection of ZIPped files, A common practice for ...

ChrisGreaves

Many of us here search for files on our computer systems.
Some of us search the world wide web for web pages that contain specific terms.

Amongst other things, I search the web for news items about South Australia (and Western Australia and ...)

First I looked in Google News for South Australia ...

ChrisGreaves

This month's FREE EDITION of the Ask Woody newsletter has a meaty article on every file system invented by Microsoft, starting with the debut of Windows in November 1985.
Cheers, Chris

ChrisGreaves

void wrote: Sat Nov 30, 2024 2:46 amEverything 1.5.0.1384a improves count:

Yippee!
And thank you, David.
Cheers, Chris

ChrisGreaves

In everything 1.5, when moving a file, the original file remains in the previous folder, just like when copying. What could be the reason for this? I see the discussion about the possibility of there being a bug in Everything.

But too I remember being fascinated between cut/copy in the early days ...

ChrisGreaves

Everything 1.5.0.1384a fixes an issue with indexing Veracrypt volumes.
VOID, I continue to be amazed at the mental contortions you must go through to steer a course through the swamps of complexity in Windows OS and associated applications technology.
Back in 73/74 I took a one-year course in ...

ChrisGreaves

void wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 10:24 amEverything 1.5.0.1384a improves count:

Void, thank you for the TWO responses on my "count:" questions.
1384 will be installed on both my live machines this day.
Cheers, Chris

ChrisGreaves

I would also be interested in knowing how to get the full manual. At the moment those links show a introduction document with 4 pages.
Hello Burgundy,
The Tutorial is now at 89 pages and needs more material (content).
Eighteen months ago I put out calls for new users to "test" the content of the ...

ChrisGreaves

Should I exit Everything before backing up the AppData folder (bookmarks, filters, .ini)? The reason I am asking is that some applications store changes to preferences only after exiting the application.

As a general principle in data processing, I would recommend exiting (closing, shutting down ...

ChrisGreaves

Any changes you make in Everything before exiting Everything will not be stored in your backup. I recommend exiting Everything before making a backup. This I understand.
But too, I understand that for someone (like me) who makes a nightly backup around 6pm, I will back up Everything's files ...

ChrisGreaves

tuska wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2024 12:03 pmEverything 1.5.0.1379a improves filters.

Surely.
But I am using '83a (image in earlier post in this thread) which is four version numbers BEYOND 79a.
Hence my confusion!
Cheers, Chris

ChrisGreaves

image: will only work for fresh installations. I think you will most likely still have the old pic: filter. Thanks for tjhis response, David.
I am running Version 1.5.0.1383a (x64)
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This is the version available (5 minutes ago) on https://www.voidtools.com/everything-1.5a/
Please and ...

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