The
Everything Search Engine updated to version 1.3.4.686, after a steady stream of updates this summer.
As many here already know Everything very quickly searches through lots of file and folder names on NTFS hard drive. Great to instantly find that particular file you're looking for but forgot where you put. Together
FARR and Everything make up a devastatingly dynamic file detection duo. ;D
Let this be an open thread for tips, tricks, ideas and code for poweruse of Everything. I'll start.
1. In
this post I showed how to quickly pass searches from FARR to Everything
2. I made an autohotkey script to quickly display and browse through all and only the images selected in Everything results, even when those images are from different folders.
F4::
clipsaved =
arr := {}
{
if xext in jpg,jpeg,tif,png,gif
}
x = 0
return
#Right::
#Left::
showfirst:
return
do := arr[x]
return
If you have
autohotkey installed you can run the attached .ahk file. Else run Everything_view_images.exe in the attached zip file (md5 hash c9bde6b19168c7c0593035b435b5c862 ). Next search with Everything and select some image files. Press F4. The first image will open in your default viewer. Next press win+right and win+left to display the next/previous of the selected images. The code should work if your default image viewer is
MaxView or
JPEGView or
IrfanView and the viewer is set to "single instance" mode.
Want to change the
hotkey? Edit line 10.
Want to try it with some other default viewer? Edit the filename on line 5 to that of your viewer's exe file.
Want to display the images in a non default viewer? Then also edit line 39 to something like
Run "C:\Program Files\IrFanView\i_view32.exe" "%do%"
but with the application path for the preferred viewer.
3. The same approach as above could be used to do other quick operations on Everything results. For example a script that does GREP searches on the content of all selected files using a tool like
Silver Searcher and list all detected content snippets.