Parent: no longer seems to work as it did (1.5.0.1310a)

[hellen_dorandt89]

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Parent: "C:\Users\User1\"

The above does not work (as in no hits found)

Below works, after removing space after Parent: it works

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Parent:"C:\Users\User1\"

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Parent: User1 \

this also does not work anymore

Also a filter with just Parent: in it and nothin else changing does not work with a search like:

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"C:\Users\User1\"

or

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User1 \

Are these intentional changes or beta bugs? the Parent: flag is one of my favourate ways to use Everything and I would like to retain its flexibility. Thanks :]

[NotNull]

There should not be a space between parent: function and its parameter (the foldername).
See Everything Search Synatx.

In which version of Everything were you able to use parent:<space>folder ?
(If that worked, I consider *that* to be the bug )


You can create a Parent filter by using the following settings:

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Name = Parent
Search = parent:query:
Macro = <query>

Topic moved to the Everything 1.5 Alpha forum

[hellen_dorandt89]

Am I going crazy?! For the life of me I remember using it as I stated. Hmm Maybe I was doing it in my dreams, I've been having really good dreams about SearchEverything lately.

Okay that aside,

There should not be a space between parent: function and its parameter (the foldername).
See Everything Search Synatx.

If so then does that mean Parent: does not support searching multiple paths? like:

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Parent:"C:\Users\User1\Downloads\" | "C:\Users\User1\" "

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Parent: User1 \

Also this would so usefull to have as a feature, its just simply not ideal to type the full path, instead of the simple user1 / which I can already use as standard search, please consider this option Mr Void!

[NotNull]

Try it with one of the following (requires Everything 1.5):

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parent:"C:\Users\User1\Downloads\";"C:\Users\User1\"
parent:<"C:\Users\User1\Downloads\"|"C:\Users\User1\">
\user1\* | \Downloads\*

[hellen_dorandt89]

hey those seem very intresting, I will give them a go! Thanks allot NotNull!

[fionut]

It seems that it returns zero results also if there is a space in the name of the folder

this returns results :

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parent:C:\Users\Ionut\Desktop\RO\ 

but this does not:

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parent:C:\Users\Ionut\Desktop\RO 1\

Version 1.5.0.1343a (x64)

[NotNull]

If a name contains spaces, it needs to be enclosed in "" to prevent Everything from seeing the space as AND :

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parent:"C:\Users\Ionut\Desktop\RO 1\"

BTW: Version 1.5.0.1346a has been released too.