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Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly on Windows

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

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Post by ubercow13 »

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.

Locate is kind of slow, even just executing a search is slower than Everything

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

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Post by Multicomp »

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.

Options - Keyboard - Toggle Window hotkey.

I use Alt + / to search, get results, then again to close the window right back to whatever I was foing

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

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Post by piyush_soni »

onurtag wrote: post #34

Using everything with an autohotkey script that replaces Ctrl+F for years now. If I Ctrl+F while an explorer window is open it allows me to search within that folder. Same with desktop, documents and taskbar.

Can you please share the AHK script? :)

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

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Post by Zekio »

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.

You can use https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox as an interface for Everything which has configurable hotkeys

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

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Post by retSava »

Something like this, or the Sublime text omnibox (whatever it's called), is what the Windows search box should be.

Ie the one you get when pressing the super/win button then start typing. It's embarrassingly bad currently. Typing 'word' the first suggestion is wordpad, not ms office word, despite me never running wordpad other than on accident. Not only bad string matching, it doesn't take into account how frequently I use either app, despite the user tracking the OS does. Strange is the land indeed.

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

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Post by onurtag »

piyush_soni wrote: post #35
onurtag wrote: post #34

Using everything with an autohotkey script that replaces Ctrl+F for years now. If I Ctrl+F while an explorer window is open it allows me to search within that folder. Same with desktop, documents and taskbar.

Can you please share the AHK script? :)

Here it is: https://gist.github.com/Onurtag/166df8b88744c48e93a64b7c8965...
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