Search Algorithm Improvement

[FruitFly]

I use both Listary and Everything, and one thing I miss in Everything is the ability to search inside of folders without typing the whole folder name in.

E.g.
Say I have the folder structure like this:
Folder\Bob\Jane\Peter\<files>

in Listary I could search for svgs in the Peter folder using:

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Pet\ .svg

in Everything I need to use the full folder name:

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Peter\ .svg

[void]

Please try searching for:

\pet .svg



Consider enabling Match Path from the Search menu to match full paths and filenames.
With Match Path enabled, you can search for:

pet .svg



I will look into an option to allow searching for: pet\ to match \peter

Please consider /path_search_type=3 in Everything 1.5
-or-
Search for pet\\ in Everything 1.5.

[ChrisGreaves]

Please try searching for:
\pet .svg

Thank you David. This works well for me when I search for Excel workbooks for the past two years in my \Greaves\Admin\ folders

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*.xls \202

The *.xls narrows the file name down to Excel workbooks.
The \202 indicates that I am looking for folders that contain the three digits 202.
Of course, this will collect workbooks from 2020 as well as 2021 and 2022, but it is a start, and an easy one that that.

Might you suggest a modification that would allow me to specify only the year-strings 2021 and 2022?

And if that is too easy for you (grin), perhaps a means to search for only the five folders 2014 through to 2018? (evil grin)

Thank
Chris

[therube]

One method (that would find directories):

folder: regex:\\201[4-8]

folder: regex:\\201[4-8] graves

folder: regex:\\201[4-8] graves admin

[ChrisGreaves]

One method (that would find directories):

Thank you therube; I noticed your emphasis, and the RegEx search does indeed return only folders that match.

I tried prefacing and suffixing your search strings with a file pattern *.xls but

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*.xls folder: regex:\\202[1-2]

returned an empty search results screen.

i must go back and study the basics of search strings yet again; I was under the impression that, in general, a succession of sub-strings narrowed the search.
That is, I expected that *.xls would return all Excel workbooks, and appending the folder search would reduce results to only those *.xls files that also satisfied (ANDed) the folder constraints.

Thanks again
Chris

[void]

I think you might be confusing folder: with path: ?
folder: = match folders only
path: = match the full path and filename.



Please try the following search:

*.xls path:regex:202[1-2]

*.xls path:regex:201[4-8]

[void]

Everything 1.5.0.1330a improves the path_search_type ini setting.

To match peter in the part part with pet\

• Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
  /path_search_type=7
• Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
• If successful, thumbnail_medium_text_lines=7 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.

Everything will now expand pet\ to pet**\**

Only folders starting with pet will be matched.