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When changing a sort such as filesize or name the selection is not in view(when it was in the first place). This can make it a pain to have to find that file again. It would be nice if the app would keep the same view when changing sorts. E.g., so if one has selected a file in view and then changes ...

Probably already suggested but it would be nice to have a drop down for past searches where hitting the down arrow will expand the combo box to show the last 20 or 100 searches.

I'm currently having to parse the html output of everything using it's html server.

Can we have it output json or text instead of html?

E.g., I really would like the file names, number of results, file sizes, extension and maybe date but in a json format rather than having to parse the html and ...

It would be nice to be able to do a file compare sort of for dupes.

The idea is one can designate folders and/or files as a "source" which then everything will compare against the database to find matches.

It should be a relatively simple feature to add. Maybe enable various ways to compare such ...

Everything might be performing a full reindex.



Yeah, I think this is what was happening. I was using a rather old database and since I use it on a ram drive(I copy it to it once for maximum performance) it would keep trying to update it. Maybe I changed a setting or something in Everything ...

therube wrote: Mon Jun 28, 2021 3:19 pm (Aside from the actual problem, see if adding the

-read-only

switch to the Everything.exe command line helps?
[That would only be of benefit if you didn't want any drives to be updated.])

That causes nothing to be loaded(0 objects).

I have a rather large drive that doesn't change and I've disable scanning of the drive after the main scan. Yet about once a week of not being used Everything still scans the large drive taking around 25 minutes to scan the drive for changes then it crashes.

I removed all drives from Indexes and ...

Updating in the background is in development.




So I disabled the database compression and moved the database to a ramdisk and it loads in about 1 second, before it was 5-10(compressed on the ramdisk, otherwise about 30 seconds or even longer). The tooltip says that compressing the database ...

I switched everything over to use folders. I had to exclude 20 drives manually and I'll have to exclude more when I bring them online but I guess it's better than nothing.

I use a 32GB ramdisk. It would be nice if evrything could copy the database to the ramdisk on startup and then copy it back to the original location when shut down. This would speed up things greatly. I noticed my drive thrashes quite a bit when scrolling through the files(it even vibrates my desk ...

when I enter search string is there any way to set certain chars to ignore so I don't have to explicitly specify them?

I'm talking about things like !, ),(,. _, -, etc (and of course spaces).

This.Is.Some-Filename_example.pdf

I would like to search just "is some filename" and it match. I still ...

I really don't want it to update at all except when I trigger it. I want to completely disable updating except when I force it manually.

(Again, not what you're wanting, but, Show exactly one copy of each filename?
And further off the track, Question: Comparing drives/folders for files .

Anyhow, a unique: might not be a bad idea, if it is doable.)


It is not hard to do. A few lines of code.

Some way to set an option to ignore ...

Every time I start I everything takes a little while to load. It usually says updating. I don't really need it to update the database. I assume it is scanning the drives for changes. I thought I saw in the options how to disable updates but I can't find it. I don't want it to scan for updates except ...

If you know dupes are kept on particular drives, you can exclude those drives !Z: .
You can excludes dupes, !dupe: or !sizedupe: .
(Note that dupe: [sizedupe:] are global in scope.)

You can set up a Filter, say a NO-DUP Filter, that is an Everything filter - except that excludes dupes.
So you can ...

I have a lot of duplicates because I 1. Have some nearly duplicate drives(backup but there are differences). 2. Sometimes use junctions to link different drives.

This unfortunately causes a ton of duplicates in everything. I have over 10M files and probably 1/3 are duplicates.

Can we not have a ...