Help with understanding how 'ommit-results' works

[Ralf_Reddings]

For the life of me I cant figure out this function works, I spent yesterday thinking ES Cli was the issue but this morning I discovered the same issues I was having in ES cli are also reproducible in a Everything 1.5 window

Lets say I have two directories:

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C:\cats
	C:\cats\cats 1.png
	C:\cats\cats 2.png
	C:\cats\cats 3.png
C:\dogs
	C:\dogs\dogs 1.png
	C:\dogs\dogs 2.png
	C:\dogs\dogs 3.png

And I added the

c:\cats

directory to the results omissions (Index > Organise Result Omissions...). Now in a Everything window (with "OMIT" not showing on the status bar)

ommit-results: c:\cats

shows 0 results, as expected since I added this directory to the result Omissions, but

ommit-results: c:\dogs

also shows 0 results, why is this directory omitted?

If I invert

ommit-results:

with

!ommit-results: c:\dogs

it will shows all 4 results for

c:\dogs

but

!ommit-results: c:\cats

also shows all 4 results for cats.

So what is even being omitted here? A search like

!ommit-results: <c:\cats| c:\dogs>

shows all items, including the omitted directory (

c:\cats

):

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C:\cats\
C:\dogs\
C:\cats\cats 1.png
C:\cats\cats 2.png
C:\cats\cats 3.png
C:\dogs\dogs 1.png
C:\dogs\dogs 2.png
C:\dogs\dogs 3.png

While

ommit-results: <c:\cats| c:\dogs>

shows 0 items.

I am expecting

ommit-results: <c:\cats| c:\dogs>

(or

!ommit-results: <c:\cats| c:\dogs>

) to show only items not found in Index > Organise Result Omissions...Just like what happens if I enable 'OMIT' (Index > Enable result Omissions) and then search

<c:\cats| c:\dogs>

:

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C:\dogs\
C:\dogs\dogs 1.png
C:\dogs\dogs 2.png
C:\dogs\dogs 3.png

I really need this function for ES and the Everything GUI search bar, as to not be bombarded with irrelevant results from many drives. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[NotNull]

Try it with omit-results: instaed of ommit-results: (1 M vs, 2)

[void]

omit-results: will match files/folders in your result omissions.

If you want to exclude files/folders that are in your result omissions, please use:

!omit-results:



I will change this function name as it is too confusing.

It should be something like:

!result-omissions:

[Ralf_Reddings]

Try it with omit-results: instaed of ommit-results: (1 M vs, 2)

Damn... I truelly am my worst enemy. Thank you NotNull. I just quickly run it again with your correction and I am getting predictable results.


@void, With your expalanation, I believe I have it figured out now. Thanks!