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Re: Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly on Windows

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Post by ksahin » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 8:24 AM UTC

rfeague wrote: post #5

Not sure what made this suddenly appear here after so many years, but I LOVE this tool, and now that I'm on MacOS, I REALLY wish there was an equivalent. It's mystifying to me why this isn't a built-in OS feature.

Spotlight or better, Alfred ?

Re: Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly on Windows

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Post by CJKerr » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 8:42 AM UTC

I like Listary - I haven't used Everything to compare, but I'm aware that they're similar.

For text file contents I'm a huge advocate for ripgrep , and for metadata...to be honest I don't have a great solution, so I'll be keeping an eye on the recommendations here.

Re: Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly on Windows

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Post by Traubenfuchs » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 9:01 AM UTC

One of the very few tools I really miss on OSX.

Re: Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly on Windows

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Post by gammateam » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 9:02 AM UTC

Need this on OSX

Its somehow begun to suck by making too many assumptions

Re: Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly on Windows

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Post by ksahin » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 9:05 AM UTC

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #13

One of the very few tools I really miss on OSX.

What about Alfred? https://www.alfredapp.com/

Re: Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly on Windows

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Post by joshschreuder » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 9:17 AM UTC

I switched away from this to Wizfile [0] and I really recommend it.

That plus Wiztree [1] as a replacement for Windirstat have made me a real fan of the devs.

[0] https://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wizfile-...

[1] https://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-...

Re: Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly on Windows

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Post by joshschreuder » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 9:18 AM UTC

CJKerr wrote: post #12

I like Listary - I haven't used Everything to compare, but I'm aware that they're similar. For text file contents I'm a huge advocate for ripgrep , and for metadata...to be honest I don't have a great solution, so I'll be keeping an eye on the recommendations here.

On Windows, Agent Ransack is really good.

Re: Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly on Windows

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Post by mosselman » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 9:25 AM UTC

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #13

One of the very few tools I really miss on OSX.

What about spotlight?

Re: Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly on Windows

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Post by enitihas » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 9:28 AM UTC

mosselman wrote: post #18

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #13

One of the very few tools I really miss on OSX.

What about spotlight?

Spotlight is no where near as feature complete as Everything. Everything literally searches "everything". Searching every single file on your disk matching a regex sorted by file size, piece of cake.

Re: Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly on Windows

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Post by enitihas » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 9:33 AM UTC

This is the only tool I miss from Windows on macOS and linux both. It allows you to search for every single file on your system, allows regex searches. It also allows you to sort the matching files by any arbitrary criteria, e.g, size. It is also incredibly fast, so searching a 1TB HDD is instantaneous. People are mentioning Spotlight here, and I think it is better than Windows search, but is simply not as good as Everything. I haven't tried Alfred so won't comment on it. On Linux also your best bet is to use find( or some gui which does something similar), but no tool offers the same kind of instantaneous full disk search like Everything.