-explore with expand!

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meteorquake
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-explore with expand!

Post by meteorquake »

-explore is the main command-line launch I tend to use now for most things rather than a flat path search.

I'm finding it would often be handy to have an option with it that expands the folder tree target folder so the first child folders are ready-showing to click on. It may be some will want it deeper so the option could be "expand-depth", with 1 meaning just expand to show the immediate children.

I'm not sure if there's a way available yet, but the equivalent of the XP-version of Explorer /root would be amazing, rooting the folder tree on the given path, as it allows the tree to be completely decluttered to just what you're working on.

Cheers, David
therube
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Re: -explore with expand!

Post by therube »

-explore
What is, -explore?
NotNull
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Re: -explore with expand!

Post by NotNull »

therube wrote: Tue Jan 03, 2023 5:38 pm
-explore
What is, -explore?
From Command-line Options :
-explore <path>

Set the folder sidebar selection to the specified path.
The path can point to a file or folder.
The selection will be set to the parent folder if the path specifies a file.
void
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Re: -explore with expand!

Post by void »

The next alpha update will have a -explore-expand command line option.

I'll make another post here once this is ready for testing.

Thank you for the suggestion.
void
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Re: -explore with expand!

Post by void »

Everything 1.5.0.1334a adds an -explore-expand command line option.

Please combine with -explore

For example:

Everything64.exe -explore "C:\Windows" -explore-expand



I will consider a /root option to limit the results to a specific folder.
Thank you for the suggestions.
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