J. P. Gilliver
2024-07-10 07:32:50 UTC
I think "Everything" is a great tool; as well as its primary function of
finding things (usually well before I've finished typing), it also
doesn't have any truck with various Windows hiding-things behaviours; it
tends to show real path names, for example, and doesn't hide the ".lnk"
extension.
That's the slight snag, though: if I search for something (say part of a
music or video title), then double-click one of the results to see if it
was what I was looking for, a .lnk file is created - and shown, which is
as it should be. But they do add to the confusion if there were lots of
hits, especially once you've tried a few. (They add to the hit-list
displayed of course as they contain the same name as the file they link
to, which matches the template you've specified.)
Is there a way in Everything of suppressing those - either specifying
that certain filenames not be shown (such as *.lnk), or specifically
link files? I've had a trawl through the settings, but can't see one -
but I could have missed it. I thought I _had_ seen a block-filename-spec
setting, but that could have been in something else.
(I think there may be a way in the template box, but having to add
"-*.lnk" or similar for every search wouldn't be great.)
finding things (usually well before I've finished typing), it also
doesn't have any truck with various Windows hiding-things behaviours; it
tends to show real path names, for example, and doesn't hide the ".lnk"
extension.
That's the slight snag, though: if I search for something (say part of a
music or video title), then double-click one of the results to see if it
was what I was looking for, a .lnk file is created - and shown, which is
as it should be. But they do add to the confusion if there were lots of
hits, especially once you've tried a few. (They add to the hit-list
displayed of course as they contain the same name as the file they link
to, which matches the template you've specified.)
Is there a way in Everything of suppressing those - either specifying
that certain filenames not be shown (such as *.lnk), or specifically
link files? I've had a trawl through the settings, but can't see one -
but I could have missed it. I thought I _had_ seen a block-filename-spec
setting, but that could have been in something else.
(I think there may be a way in the template box, but having to add
"-*.lnk" or similar for every search wouldn't be great.)
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)***@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
I don't like that word [atheist]; it implies that there's a god not to believe
in - Eric Idle, quoted in RT 2016/12/10-16
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)***@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
I don't like that word [atheist]; it implies that there's a god not to believe
in - Eric Idle, quoted in RT 2016/12/10-16