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Nod5:
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.

--- Code: Autohotkey ---#NoEnvSendMode Input#SingleInstance force GroupAdd,xwin,ahk_exe MaxView.exeGroupAdd,xwin,ahk_exe i_view32.exeGroupAdd,xwin,ahk_exe JPEGView.exe #IfWinActive, ahk_class EVERYTHINGF4::clipsaved := ClipboardAll   clipboard = send ^cclipwaitx := clipboardclipboard := clipsavedclipsaved = arr := {}Loop, Parse, x, `n, `r{SplitPath, A_LoopField,,,xextif xext in jpg,jpeg,tif,png,gif arr.Insert(A_LoopField)}x = 0gosub showfirstreturn#IfWinActive #IfWinActive ahk_group xwin#Right::#Left::showfirst:if (arr.MaxIndex()<1)or(x==arr.MaxIndex() and A_ThisHotkey=="#Right")or(x==1 and A_ThisHotkey=="#Left")  returnx += A_ThisHotkey == "#Left" ? -1 : 1do := arr[x]Run %do%return#IfWinActiveIf 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.

IainB:
@Nod5: Thanks for the above where you say:
...quickly display and browse through all and only the images selected in Everything results, even when those images are from different folders.

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It just so happens that, as a relatively new user of Everything, I was pondering over how to do just as you describe, so you have saved me a lot of trouble, including the learning you went through in your post Launch Everything from FARR as non-admin with UAC on but no prompt

Now I shall have to make the time to do it...

Nod5:
Glad you like it. I should have added that this way of browsing/displaying images from many different folders is especially useful for those who do tagging in file names. Search Everything for ".jpg panda", all panda photos ever saved and tagged with panda in the name are listed, select all and run the hotkey to start browsing/displaying them all.

IainB:
^^ Yes, that's what I try to do (have an identifiable "tag" string in the filename of images), but it is not feasible to independently tag each and every image in one's large collection of images, which is why I like the tagging feature for images in Picasa, which uses the IPTC fields - except not always in a "standard" way, it seems...(hence my separate lament on the subject).

Nod5:
I actually try to tag all my saved photos. I use a custom ahk tool to tag many files quickly. I might release it as my N.A.N.Y. submission this year.

I don't use Picasa, IPTC is metadata (not in the file name) right? Do you have some way to first IPTC tag in Picasa and then convert those tags to filename tags?

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