Searching strings inside the files

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gialandra
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Searching strings inside the files

Post by gialandra »

Is it possible with Everything searching for a word inside the files?
void
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Re: Searching strings inside the files

Post by void »

Yes, please have a look at A word of phrase in the file in the Advanced Search from the Search menu.

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gialandra
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Re: Searching strings inside the files

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Great

Thank you
gialandra
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Re: Searching strings inside the files

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Is it possible even to make a fast database with content of file so that it is possible to have fast searching?
horst.epp
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Re: Searching strings inside the files

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gialandra wrote:Is it possible even to make a fast database with content of file so that it is possible to have fast searching?
That would duplicate the index Windows already builds.
There is no need for such an index inside of Everything.
But Everything may use the index build by Windows for its content search.
ovg
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Re: Searching strings inside the files

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horst.epp wrote:But Everything may use the index build by Windows for its content search.
Can you please explain howto?
feldor
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Re: Searching strings inside the files

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void wrote: Thu Jun 15, 2017 10:25 am Yes, please have a look at A word of phrase in the file in the Advanced Search from the Search menu.

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Hi, I just registered to the forums and hopefully answering to an old topic does not make this less than what I want to say. I've been using this software for quite many years and was at some point thinking "... could this search inside files". Well, to be honest, via this post I learned it can :) Made a test on my desktop, ok only with some 200 files there but it did not took from the program to find my sentence that long, few minutes. Indexing all the files and their contents, yes something could be even more better, but I'm happy more than that, with this and I see an update is also coming.
To the dev. / void, thank you. Cheers...
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