Include extensions from excluded folders

[reptc]

Hi. This may be too novice question, but it's something I wanted to solve for a couple of years.

I want to make index database compact as possible and for that, I added Windows, AppData, and ProgramData, Program Files to 'exclude folders' list. But I still want indexing of some useful extensions of those folders. exe and lnk, for example. And I can's see how this can be done. There is 'include only files' filter, but it works on every file, not just to excluded folders. Is there a solution of this?

[void]

There is currently no simple way to do this.

If you don't use filters, consider modifying the Everything filter:

• From the Search menu, click Organize filters....
• Select the Everything filter and click Edit.
• Change the search to:

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  <!"c:\program files\" !"C:\program files (x86)\" !"C:\Windows\"> | "c:\program files\*.exe" | "c:\program files (x86)\*.exe | "c:\Windows\*.exe" | "c:\program files\*.lnk" | "c:\program files (x86)\*.lnk" | "c:\Windows\*.lnk"

This Everything filter search will be applied to every search you make in Everything.

[reptc]

Thanks, it was very helpful. Now I'm getting much less clutters.

The code is missing some quotation marks. I'm a novice so it took me 10 minutes to find out what's wrong

[void]

*Added the missing quotes!