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Mizufluffy

Lately I've been trying out the Folders sidebar with combination of the search bar.
I like how I can quite easily select a folder in the sidebar instead of typing path:"some_full_path_here" in the search bar. However, if I want to go deep down in the directory tree in the Folders sidebar then that ...

Mizufluffy

I agree with void with Select Bookmark.
Anyone who doesn't already know about the shortcut (Ctrl+B) might never even find out about the feature. I'll admit I don't use it that often but I think it is a good feature. Although, since the layout is very similar to Organize Bookmarks window, I ...

Mizufluffy

It appears version 1.5 has the features I prefer I will wait for that version - Cheerio

Ah, right. Sorry about my last message then. I've been using 1.5a for months as my main Everything (I still have 1.4 but not in active use) so it's easy for me to forget what 1.5a features are missing from 1 ...

Mizufluffy

How does one find find filenames with dots abc.def.ext

example abc.def@gmail.comhttp using the default "Everything" search filter

I created your example file abc.def@gmail.comhttp on my system and if I search for "abc." then I get 125 results. I wouldn't call it "too many" but I can see what ...

Mizufluffy

Also I am surprised the full path of the found files does not seem to be an option for display in the found list I am unable to locate such an option other than to hover over each file name May I suggest such an option be provided as it is more convenient to view the entire list than to hover over ...

Mizufluffy

What do the Regular Expression Match columns show?

Thanks.

If you search using regular expressions, for example with regex: function, then it shows the part that matches the regular expression. For example, on the example below I created some random files that all had something in common, in ...

Mizufluffy

I'd like to add a few things. For example, if I'm using the following regex (with regex mode enabled)
C:\\ProgramData\\.+\.exe
Then I tend to get a lot of paths like this as a result:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_bugreport.exe ...

Mizufluffy

Yes, there's an Advanced Search (TODO) placeholder under the View menu already.

Oh, you are right. I was looking at View menu when I was typing my previous message but I must have missed it. I believe I was looking the area between Menu and Customize... (TODO) so basically everything above the ...

Mizufluffy

But if you select all 3 filters Everything will search for .txt and .url files and ALL the files and folders in C:\Music.
I get it, but in my opinion it should search for only .txt and .url files in C:\Music.

By this logic selecting ".txt" and ".url" filters would not find any files because no ...

Mizufluffy

I have plans to turn the Advanced Search into a sidebar.

A folder/treeview sidebar is in development.

I hope this will be something you can enable / disable because I personally like the search field and how most of the space has been reserved for the results. I think the Advanced Search is a ...

Mizufluffy

If I understood this correctly, you want to search for word "beach" from folder names but also from file names that have a certain extension? In that case you can do something like this:
<folder: | ext:jpg;png;mp4> beach
In the first part, <folder: | ext:jpg;png;mp4>, there is a group and OR with ...

Mizufluffy

If you want to see only files in search results then you can add this

Code: Select all

files:

to the search field. If you want to see only folders then you can add this

Code: Select all

folders:

to the search field.

Take note of the colon after the word because it indicates it's a function.

Mizufluffy

The following searches will only match the first 3-5 character word with all digits:

regex:\b(\d{3,5})\b regular-expression-match-1:123
(this will also match 2123)

Try a regex search on the regular-expression-match-1:
regex:\b(\d{3,5})\b regex:regular-expression-match-1:^0*123

If you know where ...

Mizufluffy

123.jpg
01234.jpg
1234.jpg
12345.jpg
and
AS00124567 12345.jpg

So, the file name must contain substring 123 separated by a word boundary (such as a whitespace character) but that substring may have other characters too, right? If we look at AS00124567 12345.jpg then can you tell does the ...

Mizufluffy

I can think of two ways to do this. One is to use len: function, for example len:<=5 (length is less or equal to 5). The other way would be using regex, for example regex:"^.{1,5}$". Character ^ marks the start of a string, period (.) means any character, length is in { and } brackets (from 1 to 5 ...

Mizufluffy

Everything 1.5.0.1281a - Status bar: 0 objects (0 files, 0 folders)

I think I personally prefer that one the most. That way I can see total count first just like before, then file count because 1) I tend to prioritize files over folders, 2) in my case I usually have more files in results than ...

Mizufluffy

raccoon wrote: Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:38 pmAre there columns for descendant-count?

At least in the 1.5a when right clicking column title area and then Add Columns... you can find it on the list.

: 2021-10-20 19_53_54-path__c__temp_ folder_ - Everything (1.5a) 1.5.0.1280a (x64).jpg (162.2 KiB) Viewed 6914 times

Mizufluffy

Oh, wow. That's exactly what I want. I just tried it and it is indeed working how I wanted.
I usually look through Help > Search Syntax because the list is short enough, however, I'm aware that under Search > Insert Function... there is this extended list of functions in 1.5a but it's still work in ...

Mizufluffy

I recently tried File List Slots because it let me have a set of predetermined list of folders. My idea was then to find those folders that would contain a certain number of files regardless of the path depth. Normally I would use childfilecount: for something similar to this but in this case it won ...

Mizufluffy

File name Apple, Mango and Orange

if i search

Apple, Mango, and Orange = Results DOESN'T show up

Apple, Mango, Orange = Results DOESN'T show up

see how inconsistent the symbols are while searching?

so this is the same issue as the + symbol, i just want to exclude commas or symbols while ...

Mizufluffy

ok, while commas do ineed work, i still need an exclude option, for example Apple + Mango, it just wouldn't show results unless i remove the + symbol

It's a little bit hard for me to understand what kind of file names you are expecting to find. Do you have any actual full file names you could ...

Mizufluffy

BrettUSA269 wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 3:31 pm I downloaded version Version 1.5.0.1279a (x64) but it did not copy my settings from Version 1.4.1.1005 (x64)

Is there a way I can do this vs having to setup everything again?

These may help you:
Import settings from Everything 1.4
Import other settings

Mizufluffy

Here is a simple example. I created a few files with similar names.
apple , mango.fruits
apple mango.fruits
apple, mango.fruits
apple,mango.fruits
In the image below I had three different searches going:
apple mango
apple , mango
"apple , mango"
The first one has no comma and can find all ...

Mizufluffy

horst.epp is correct.

Here is an example of the context menu with a screenshot:
Copy Full Path to Clipboard - "C:\temp\New Text Document.txt"
Copy Path to Clipboard - "C:\temp"
Copy Name to Clipboard - "New Text Document.txt"
Everything 1.5a Context Menu.jpg

If you can't see those options yet ...

Mizufluffy

Try one of the following (untetsed, btw):

metabolic \desktop\
\desktop\ metabolic
shell:desktop metabolic

\desktop\ file:metabolic
shell:desktop file:metabolic

(there are more possibilities)

I tested these for you. I created a metabolic.txt file in two different locations.
metabolic ...

Mizufluffy

harryray2 wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:07 am Apologies if I've asked before. I can't remember.

That is why the forum has a search function. I did a quick search for "bookmark comment" and found this
comments for bookmarks and filters from Aug 19, 2021.

Mizufluffy

Could you please do a breakdown of the two terms? Thanks

regex:S\d\dE\d\d
S - Matches letter S
\d - Matches a digit
E - Matches letter E
So it has S, two digits, E and two digits, for example S01E01

regex:.S\d\dE\d\d
Very similar to previous one but it has . at the beginning.
. - Matches ...

Mizufluffy

I tried Everything-1.5.0.1276a.x64-Setup-m1.exe (although the link you provided was pointing at Everything-1.5.0.1276a.x64-Setup.exe), and now the Type column appears to be working correctly. It does not show any values when the search, and the result area, is empty.

Mizufluffy

After installing the latest alpha, version 1.5.0.1276a (x64), I noticed that column Type has value File even when there are no files listed, for example when the search field is completely empty. I don't recall this behaviour from the previous version, and I often start with empty search and Type is ...

Mizufluffy

void wrote: Sat Sep 18, 2021 11:29 pm Please try the following search:

diacritics:•

I noticed that another alternative option that works is
regex:•

Mizufluffy

Can you please tell me —«everything 1.5a» is stable? What is your experience with 1.5a? Or is it still too early a version to upgrade to it?
In my personal experience with 1.5a it has been working well, and void has been fixing up quite quickly when they are being reported and there has been ...

Mizufluffy

It might help if you added those filters each on their own line? Here's a simple example, tested in Everything 1.4:
Everything_Exclude_Filter.jpg

The exclude filter in the options allows only excluding folders but there is this Temporary Excludes feature in Everything 1.5a that allows excluding ...

Mizufluffy

I can also resize Everything Options window, and the excluded folders list because of that, without problems. I was even able to drag a border all the way to end of my second monitor so basically about 2x 1920 pixels wide in total.

Mizufluffy

@SuperDude

Would this perhaps work?
D:\Everything64\Everything64.exe -s "wfn:%1"
I can't say I'm familiar with Everything command line options much but according to https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/command_line_options/ the -s (or -search ) sets the search text. This in a theory ...

Mizufluffy

I actually yesterday had to fix one of my bookmarks to something similar like this and realized it didn't quite work as expected in my case. This is because
files: regex:pathpart:".*\\[^\\]*this:[^\\]*$"
finds paths where search term is a substring of another word. For example, fact is a ...

Mizufluffy

Regex syntax is a mystery to me, I need to dig into it definitely.

If I may, I'd like to suggest a few websites that could help you get started if you want to dig into regex.

https://www.regular-expressions.info/index.html
Quick Start, Tutorials, Examples, Pitfalls and a lot more, a good ...

Mizufluffy

Index Journal might work for your purpose. You can find it under the menu Index > Index Journal. You can track various changes to the file system with it such as file or folder creating, renaming, moving and deleting.

I filtered it to one folder in this case because without any kind of filtering ...

Mizufluffy

I don't know how this could be done in 1.4 but I have an alternative solution for 1.5a (tested in 1.5.0.1272a). This search lists files if the direct parent folder includes the searched word.

For example, it can find files in
C:\temp\theHalloweenHere
C:\temp\theHalloweenHere\halloween
C:\temp ...

Mizufluffy

Easiest way to do this would most likely to follow the steps below. First disable NTFS volumes from the index. Then add the folders you want. You don't need to exclude anything unless it is a subfolder in your added folders.

Options > Indexes > NTFS:
Try to remove the drives you can. Those that ...

Mizufluffy

Looking at filter or bookmark creation in 1.4, neither has an ability to select columns. However, the ability to select columns for filters or bookmarks can be found in 1.5a (I'm currently using 1.5.0.1272a).

In 1.5.0.1272a:
For example, a filter:
2021-08-14 20_57_29-Edit Filter.jpg
and the ...

Mizufluffy

Let's say I have three text files:
" Manchester.txt " that has text "Manchester" in the content,
" Manchester (Not in Content).txt " that has no text "Manchester" in the content and
" M-something.txt " that has Manchester in the content but not in the file name.

If I search for Manchester I get ...

Mizufluffy

Is there an option or setting to disable Filter/Bookmark keyboard shortcuts when search field has focus? I'm using Everything 1.5.0.1270a.
I noticed some keyboard shortcuts can cause problems while searching. For example, let's say I want to type a character } and I have a bookmark shortcut CTRL ...

Mizufluffy

In Tools > Options > General > Home I have set up columns Name;Path;Size;Date Modified;Type.
By default these are showing correctly in the result view.
However, if I temporarily remove a column(s) either manually (right clicking column and deselecting it) or, for example, use a bookmark that has a ...

Mizufluffy

Awesome! Thanks a lot for this feature. I tried it a little and it seems to work exactly how I was hoping for. This gives a lot more freedom when defining custom searches for filters and bookmarks.

Mizufluffy

Do you mean and as in "2 and 3"? Not really. It simply describes a range from one value to another value. For example, {5,50} would mean "from 5 to 50" instead of "5 and 50".
Also, it is possible to leave upper value out and do {5,} in which case it means "5 or more".

Mizufluffy

Thanks that's useful, but my problem is I'm trying to include extensions with just 2 or 3 characters. I can get rid of a one character extension in a silly way with !*.? but that doesn't help with more than 3.

If you want both 2 and 3 character long extensions then you can simply do
regex ...

Mizufluffy

My next problem is, and I don't think I'll work this one out myself, is to limit the extension to three letters....exe .mp4 etc. There are some files with just one,two or many letters in the extension
If you add this regex in your search then it should limit it to 3 characters:
regex:"\.\w{3 ...

Mizufluffy

What I just tried myself, after reading your question, was this:
First I added 'Extension' column: Right click one of the column titles > Add Columns... > Everything Properties > Extension > Ok.
Then I searched for this:
files: distinct: sort:extension

I took a look at the list it gave me and ...

Mizufluffy

I mean, yeah, /hide_extension=1 does the job but the thing is I like seeing extensions basically 99% of the time so having to switch between /hide_extension=0 and /hide_extension=1 does not seem like an ideal solution just for a few special cases. However, I think I found somewhat decent way to deal ...

Mizufluffy

I'm a little bit curious why the Name column seems to be unremovable.

When right clicking column header to add, orginize etc. them, 'Name' is shown as active but uneditable. If I go to 'Organize Columns' and remove 'Name' column from there and click OK then 'Name' column stays and nothing seems to ...

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