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

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Post by simcop2387 »

enitihas wrote: post #20

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 Ev…

While it's a client tool, most Linux distros (and osx I think too) ship with the locate command that does this too.

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

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Post by teknopaul »

simcop2387 wrote: post #21
enitihas wrote: post #20

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 Ev…

While it's a client tool, most Linux distros (and osx I think too) ship with the locate command that does this too.

There is a version of locate/updatedb for windows as well. I think it is called locate32.

I cant use a computer for dev without locate

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

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Post by Jaruzel »

What I'm really after is a web based search portal for all my network data that's hosted on SMB shares. It needs to be easy to setup and manage (so my other half can use it) and understand Windows domain security. Google-in-a-box used to do it (badly), and MS SharePoint Search (bloated and slow). Neither of which are suitable these days. Any ideas anyone?

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

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Post by galfarragem »

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.

Everything usecase is when you need to search really everything. Most times you don't and in that cases Listary is way friendlier.

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

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Post by MarsAscendant »

qualsiasi wrote: post #6

I discovered this tool last week and suddenly fell in love with it. Is it possible to bind it to a hotkey like spotlight? However if it where to fuzzy match like sublime’s super+p I would love it even more.

It's fuzzy alright: https://i.imgur.com/rYXDsgs.png – or did you mean something different?

You can hotkey it if you have a shortcut stored somewhere.

Right-click on the shortcut → Properties → Shortcut menu → Shotcut Key line

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

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Post by zapzupnz »

gammateam wrote: post #14

Need this on OSX Its somehow begun to suck by making too many assumptions

Alfred does a great job of fast, system-wise file search. Not sure if you need the Powerpack or not, but Alfred’s file command (and the rest of it, come to that) is such that I call it a macOS necessity.

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

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Post by atjd »

teknopaul wrote: post #22
simcop2387 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While it's a client tool, most Linux distros (and osx I think too) ship with the locate command that does this too.

There is a version of locate/updatedb for windows as well. I think it is called locate32. I cant use a computer for dev without locate

Everything use a feature provided by NTFS file system, so the `updatedb` part is incredibly fast, i haven't found anything that can even come close on macos/linux.

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

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Post by homarp »

teknopaul wrote: post #22
simcop2387 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While it's a client tool, most Linux distros (and osx I think too) ship with the locate command that does this too.

There is a version of locate/updatedb for windows as well. I think it is called locate32. I cant use a computer for dev without locate

and you can also try fd https://github.com/sharkdp/fd (it works without index)

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

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Post by Semaphor »

joshschreuder wrote: post #16

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-...

Care to write about why you prefer Wizfile over Everything?

Between Wiztree and Windirstat it's obvious as Windirstat is extremely slow.

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

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Post by tapland »

joshschreuder wrote: post #16

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-...

Does this support network locations? Mapping to a drive to make it work in everything works for some things but in general everything is pretty bad at non-physical and non-local drives.

Edit: Doesn't seem like it. The drive that I can add as a folder in Everything doesn't show up at all in WizFile

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