File count column for directories.

[Janus]

I am tinkering with a number of open source projects.
One feature that would help me greatly, and I think others.

When results are shown that include directories, show not just the size of the directory tree, also show the file count in it.

The ability to right click on a directory, then middle click to have it open another copy of everything instead replacing the one you clicked from would be very nice.

I am also working on a private fork of explorer++ trying to use everything for instant search in it.
Currently having to use Win7, trying to get back functionality purposely removed by M$.
XP just worked, 7 is a nightmare.

Hoping that a file count column would not be much trouble.

Janus.

[mwsm]

The ability to right click on a directory, then middle click to have it open another copy of everything instead replacing the one you clicked from would be very nice.

Not sure I follow exactly what you're suggesting, but you can get close to this feature by enabling "Options > General > Show folder context menus", which adds a "Search Everything..." item to folder content menus (including the ones displayed inside Everything). Clicking this will open a new Everything window pre-filled with the folder path.

[void]

When results are shown that include directories, show not just the size of the directory tree, also show the file count in it.

Folder sizes can be enabled from Tools -> Options -> Indexes -> Index folder size (In Everything 1.4).
There's no column to show the number of files in a folder -added to my TODO list.
Everything doesn't index the number of files in a folder to keep its memory footprint low.
This information would have to be calculated before sorting the folders by file count.

When using childcount:, childfilecount: or childfoldercount: to search for folders with a specific number of files or subfolders, Everything builds a temporary table of all this information.

The ability to right click on a directory, then middle click to have it open another copy of everything instead replacing the one you clicked from would be very nice.

This can be done from Tools -> Options -> UI -> Create a new window when running Everything.
However, this will also create a new window when you launch Everything from a shortcut or directly from the Everything.exe

For more control, modify your existing Everything folder context menu (right click menus) in regedit to open in a new window:

• From the Start menu, click Run.
• Type in regedit and click Run...
• In Regedit, Navigate to:
  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\Search Everything...\command
• Change the (Default) value data from:
  "C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe" -path "%1"
  to:
  "C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe" -path "%1" -newwindow
  where C:\Program Files\Everything is the your location of your Everything.exe
• Close regedit.

Everything folder context menus (right click menus) can be enabled from Tools -> Options -> General -> Show folder context menus.

Hoping that a file count column would not be much trouble.

There's not a simple switch I can enable to do this unfortunately. I would have to modify the database to index and maintain this information.
I have plans to revamp the columns in Everything 1.5 where I will review a file count column.