Please add "copy file size to clipboard" to right click menu!

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zer0nix
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Please add "copy file size to clipboard" to right click menu!

Post by zer0nix »

currently has to be done by opening file properties

ps: Mega thanks for having the "size:" command ignore commas!!! Very prescient design!

pss: would be handy if the app could ignore "(" as well since that gets selected with a double click on file size in file properties ... but this change would be unnecessary if you could just copy the file size ... but even that would be unnecessary if you could sort duplicated files by two criteria instead of just one.
void
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Re: Please add "copy file size to clipboard" to right click menu!

Post by void »

Please try Everything 1.5:
  • Right click the size text and click Copy Size to clipboard.
  • Parameters passed to size: support expressions, eg: size:1+1 size:1<<17 size:(3+4)*5

There's spaces in the size text under right click -> properties.
Everything treats spaces as the AND operator.

Use double quotes to escape spaces.
eg:
size:"50.6 KB (51,853 bytes)"

size: in Everything 1.5 will ignore the text in brackets.
therube
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Re: Please add "copy file size to clipboard" to right click menu!

Post by therube »

Right click the size text and click Copy Size
Thanks. Didn't realize that was there.
That will be useful :-).
(And there's more too, if you look ;-).)


(As it is [soon to be was], I'd use Everything to jump to the file in Salamander, then copy the size from within Salamander [then, often times, do a size:filesize in Everything.)
raccoon
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Re: Please add "copy file size to clipboard" to right click menu!

Post by raccoon »

I like this feature too, but I generally find myself going through a tedious process of Exporting (File > Export) because I need to copy multiple columns rather than one-at-a-time. If it's just two columns, I'll copy/paste them one at a time into Excel/LibreCalc.

Suggest: Add the submenu item "Copy Columns..." which lets us checkmark the columns to Copy. Include checkboxes to select a delimiter(s), ie, tab or comma or space or spaces (spaces = padded spaces to make monospace columns) or custom delimiter, quoted/unquoted.
void
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Re: Please add "copy file size to clipboard" to right click menu!

Post by void »

I will consider a Copy Columns... option.

Thanks for the suggestion.


For now, does setting a keyboard shortcut to the Copy as TSV/CSV command under Tools -> Options -> Keyboard help?
NotNull
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Re: Please add "copy file size to clipboard" to right click menu!

Post by NotNull »

I can see a "Add <property> to search" context menu entry when right-clicking a < property> value work .
Just like there is already a "Search for <property>" in the result list header column context menu.

For better understanding: let's say the search is now c:\folder.
Right-clicking the size of some file (with size 123) and selecting "Add Size to search", would change the search to c:\folder size:123.
One manually would have to change that to size:>123, !size:123, etc

Inserting size:123 at the current cursor position of the search query might cause mistakes and seems (to me) less desirable.
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