my everything randomly now requires more exact prompts

[bigvoidfan]

I've been an Everything user for a few years (huge fan), and have always been able to perform non-exact / out-of-order filename searches using filename keywords with success. It's so useful how I can effectively use what I remember in the filename to find the file on my computer. Recently this seems to have stopped working and I'd like to revert it back.

For example:
- if I am searching for a file named 2024 budget October 15 personal.xlsx
- historically a search of

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personal budget

or

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October 2024

would successfully return the file
- Now I need to remember the exact order of the words in the filename and search in a way that matches, for example

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2024 budget

or

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October 15

Any idea how to (re)achieve this? Thanks in advance!

[tuska]

Hi,

You can simply search as follows (without " "):

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personal budget
October 2024
2024 budget
October 15

Search Syntax - Everything

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Operators:

space	AND
" "	Search for an exact phrase.

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[bigvoidfan]

Thanks - the "" I had in my post were to indicate what I was searching for (not that I was using quotation marks). Have updated the post for clarity!

[therube]

Check your settings under the Search menu item to see if something didn't inadvertently get set.

[bigvoidfan]

Check your settings under the Search menu item to see if something didn't inadvertently get set.

that was it! i toggled settings on and off - it was the "enable regex" setting. thank you!