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Raindrops

Thanks for the advice!
My responses are as follows:
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1. Disk temperature:
My app (Crystal disk info) showed red indicator for temperature.
At that time, the F drive was permanently connected to my laptop.
I disconnected it after getting the CRC read errors.

I reconnected it today, and ...

Raindrops

I have a 4 TB USB HDD, which shows high temperature (S.M.A.R.T. data).
I can open some of the files on it, but some others show CRC failure.

I have not tried to open the other files, lest I should end up damaging the disk.
As a precaution, I have disconnected the disk and kept it aside safely.

I ...

Raindrops

Yes, indeed!

I often wondered about the manual.

I like to be a power user of whatever app I use.
But my weakness is that I am lost without a systematic user manual.

In case of Everything, I have barely scratched the surface for want of a UM.
Hence the interest!

I checked out the links you have ...

Raindrops

This is wonderful!

Thanks for this effort!

I would like to join this effort as volunteer.
It would be best to share the document as good doc, so that we can edit it collaboratively.

I have prepared 10+ whole user manuals for free software that I use and love.
They are in the form of wiki ...

Raindrops

Thanks for the feedback!

Yes, the documentation is there, and the greatest hits thread does help.
But both are not optimized for rapid discovery.
(For example, the "top hits" list is not part of the TOC. It should be!)

Most users are in a hurry: They want to look up something and move on.
They are ...

Raindrops

Another change needed is to introduce a subject first, and only then add nuanced topics about that subject.

For example, the concept of "Bookmarks" is unique in Everything.
Normally, a user associates the word "bookmark" with a "location" (a drive or folder in Explorer, and a URL in a browser).
But ...

Raindrops

This forum has solved a lot of user needs and cleared their doubts.

However, this wisdom is scattered all over the forums, and any user has to search hard to find his solution.
Many users do not bother and simply post their question in the forum, which increases clutter.

It is best to add such ...

Raindrops

Thanks for the detailed tips!

This works.

Raindrops

I have two laptops, and my old laptop has nearly 1 TB of data on its HDD.

I have shared its data folder over a private network, and I have full control on that folder from my new laptop.

I would like to index this shared folder in my new laptop using Everything.

Everything will allow me to search ...

Raindrops

I agree!

BTW I use both Sumatrapdf and Oracle VT with FreeCommander (with sLister and uLister wrappers), and they provide all the functionality I listed.

So it would be great indeed if Everything supports wlx.

Raindrops

So, wdx, or wlx?
Well, this is a design choice. The user is not concerned with this issue!
At the end of the day, we should be able to check out all file types in the quickviewer.

IINW some people make a distinction between "Viewer", "QuickViewer" and "previewer".
I am not sure if that applies here ...

Raindrops

The settings from Tuska works, ...
But all this doesn't help to view files in Everything, it only works with Explorer

Well, it appears that Tuska has described a previewer solution for Explorer; and not Everything.

I do not need that solution, because I prefer FreeCommander over Explorer.
I ...

Raindrops

tuska wrote: Mon Aug 12, 2024 3:59 pm 2
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Thanks a lot for this detailed guide!
I hope that I will be able to crack the problem this time.

Raindrops

The problem may be that SumatraPDF by default doesn't show .epub files.
In Total Commander, this is solved by the config for SLister, which sets all file types it should display.

Well, in my system, Sumatrapdf is set as default app for epub file type.
Yet, I am unable to preview epub files in ...

Raindrops

I tried the following:

1. I created a "Previewer" folder in my C:\Users\<userName>\Documents path
2. I unzipped the contents of wlx2Explorer archive in this folder.
3. I also placed the Sumatrapdf exe file in this folder
4. I put the sLister files also in this folder.

The overall content of this ...

Raindrops

For viewing EPUB files, the Oracle viewers are useless,
they don't contain a viewer for this file type.
So, only the TC SumatraPDF wlx/wlx64 viewer is applicable.

ULister and the Oracle viewers are fine for doc and docx formats
and many others of course.

Should I use the sLister+Sumatrapdf ...

Raindrops

I have two laptops. My older laptop has almost 1 TB of data in its internal HDD.
How do I index that drive and search its contents using Everything on my new laptop?

If the above is possible, can I open the files on my old laptops on my new laptop, as if the internal HDD of my old laptop is an ...

Raindrops

Author's guidance found on the Issues tab of the app's repository on GitHub:

I am not clear about the steps even after reading the author's tips.

For example, in case of FreeCommander or TotalCommander, it makes sense to talk about their respective plugin folders.
But when configuring these ...

Raindrops

Hi

This sounds very promising!

Can you please share the steps needed to make this work?

For reference, here are the steps I listed to use uLister with FreeCommander:

FWIW here are the step-by-step installation procedures:
1. Steps for installing sLister+Sumatrapdf
2. Steps for installing ...

Raindrops

I have a collection of files spread of multiple external USB HDDs.

But this collection is too large.
So I kept selecting the best files on every subject, and copied them in a dedicated folder for quick reference.
I kept this folder on my default fixed HDD.

Over the last 20 years, this "quick ...

Raindrops

I also used the zip file.

Raindrops

Here is a short summary of what to do:

1. Download USBDLM (USB Drive Letter Manager) from here
2. Unzip the content into an installation folder (or use the msi to install it)

This excellent YouTube video explains how USBDLM works.
That said, there are a major error in it: At 2:06, it states that ...

Raindrops

Update: Again Uwe guided me.

The problem was due to two lines (line#75 and 76) in the ini file:

DriveID=
Letters=

I thought that they would do nothing because I had not entered any value in them.
Instead, as soon as a drive was connected, these lines accepted its DeviceID and assigned any ...

Raindrops

Yes, I had raised this doubt to Uwe (the developer of USBDLM). He also pointed this out.

I did that, and now the drive letters are assigned consistently.
But each drive gets the wrong letter assigned to it.

For example,
Instead of F, the drive always gets E assigned.
Instead of H, the drive ...

Raindrops

@paulge
Thatnks for the painstakingly written note.
I had already done the exact thing even in my old laptop (where I had not changed anything).
But somehow all drive letters got messed up.

@Horst
I want to mount my five USB HDDs as removable disks (not fixed).
Further, I want to assign specific ...

Raindrops

Use the tool USBDLM.

I checked out the app.
From this Youtube video , it appears that the process is quite laborious.
I have to insert each disk, find out its ID, and copy it in the ini file of USBDLM.
Then I have to assign a unique letter to it.

I have to repeat this for each disk one by one ...

Raindrops

@paulge

Thanks for the reply.

I searched with those keywords, but could not find a significant answer.

I can change the drive letters, but they are not assigned persistently/permanently.
They change randomly.

Can you please paste the URL by replacing the / with another character (say # or ...

Raindrops

@void
I want Everything to remember all offline HDDs, not remove the contents the moment they are disconnected.
In fact, there is a direct benefit of this: I can search for all files/folders without connecting the HDDs each time.
That means I have to plug in a HDD only if I want to read that file ...

Raindrops

I went through those posts, but could not find the answers.

I have 5 HDDs.
I must assign them with drive letters because that's how FreeCommander bookmarks work.
I have put stickers on all HDDs with their drive letters, so that when Everything finds the file I want, I can plug in the right HDD ...

Raindrops

That worked.

But I am still not clear how this works: All the HDDs are "offline" most of the time.
That is to say, they are normally not connected to the laptop.
But I never had this problem before!

So why do I have to remove these "offl;ine" volumes?

Secondly, somehow my storage system assigns a ...

Raindrops

I have multiple drives with duplicate drive letters, which creates a lot of confusion.

Duplicate drives.png
Many of these volumes are removable external HDDs (USB).

Now I have changed my laptop, and transferred the Everything settings using Everything.ini.

How do I clean up the suplicated drive ...

Raindrops

@rube

<pdf|epub> | <stakeholder|game>

This construct does not yield the result I want!
It will list all the pdf and epub files, regardless of whether they have either stakeholder or game in their name!

I want that either stakeholder or game must be in the file name; and the extension must be ...

Raindrops

I changed the setting, and the problem got resolved completely.

For example, I can search like this:

pdf|epub stakeholder|game

Both pipes work correctly.

This shows me files that have either of these terms.
All files having pdf and epub extensions are listed.

Thanks!

That said, I have ...

Raindrops

If I enter pdf|epub in the search, I can see all pdf and epub files.
But if I add any additional word, I cannot see any results.

For example, I tried the following searches:
pdf|epub stakeholder
stakeholder pdf|epub

(I changed the order of the search terms to see if that has any effect.)

In ...

Raindrops

Thanks!

BTW, I would like the following additional bookmarks in this collection:
1. Video (mp4, webm, avi, mov, wmv, mkv, flv, etc.)
2. Audio (mp4, m4a, wma, ogg, aac, MIDI, wav, etc.)
3. docs (pdf, doc, docx, txt, epub, odt, odp, ppt, pptx, pps, xls, xlsx, rtf, txt, CSV, azw3, chm, mobi, etc.)
4 ...

Raindrops

The file: command works.

But if I click on the preset bookmarks from your collection, the Results pane is blank.

Even folder-related nodes, such as Folders , and Empty folders also do not work.

Everything: 1.5.0.1383a (x64)
OS: Windows NT 10.0 22631 (x64)
Admin: 0
Service: 1 (connected ...

Raindrops

It is already set to 1.

Raindrops

I have installed your latest bookmarks in Everything 1383a.

But for most of the preset bookmarks, the results panel remains blank.
In all cases, the Everything option is selected in the item type drop-down.
In other words, no filter is applied to the search results.

Here are three examples ...

Raindrops

Thank you!

Another idea is to let the user search for a particular hotkey in this window itself.

Imagine this scenario:
1. User clicks in an input field, and presses a hotkey (e.g. CTRL+SHFT+SpaceBar).
2. The field shows all functions that are bound to this hotkey.

This will make it easy to find ...

Raindrops

It is hard for an average user to know (or remember) various configuration-related commands like About:keys .
Instead, such commands should be converted into interface control (button, drop-down list, input field, check box, etc.)

For example, instead of the about:keys command, a button should be ...

Raindrops

Yes, ESC was bound to File|Exit.

File|Close was already bound to another hotkey: CTRL+SHFT+W.
I added ESC to that, and now everything works fine.

Raindrops

Oops!

I just discovered a much simpler case:

So I do not have to do anything inside Everything to crash it: Just pressing ESC is enough!
This kills the threads.
After that, both hotkeys (CTRL+SpaceBar and SHFT+CTRL+SpaceBar) cannot launch a window.
The only way to launch Everything is by clicking ...

Raindrops

Just to clarify, my typical workflow was-

1. Select string in a browser
2. CTRL+C
3. CTRL+SpaceBar - To launch Everything window
4. SHFT+CTRL+V - To paste the string w/o punctuation in Everything window
5. ESC - To dismiss Everything

When my hotkey stopped launching Everything "randomly", I ...

Raindrops

The next course of action is to examine debug logs to try and work out what is going on:

In Everything, from the Tools menu, under the Debug submenu, click Start Debug Logging.
from another program, hit your Everything hotkey.
---please try repeating the above a few times to get Everything ...

Raindrops

OK.

I checked the dumps folder. It has several dump files generated over last one month.
These are created mainly by msteamsupdate.exe and one file is created by explorer.exe.
But there's none by Everything.

Right now, I do not know if the problem got resolved.
So I will have to wait till the ...

Raindrops

BTW all the settings you mentioned so far were exactly the same. I haven't changed anything at all.
And yet Everything was working fine for such a long time.
I kept on updating Everything to the latest alpha version, and it kept working.
All of a sudden, this problem has popped up!
That's the ...

Raindrops

Wow! Thanks a lot for the diligent pursuance of this issue!

I have inserted point-by-point responses inline.

That last screenshot shows the Everything search client is not running.
It most likely crashed?
That's the screenshot taken after the hotkey stopped responding.
But some Everything ...

Raindrops

So, when the hotkey is working, the Task Manager shows 3/4 lines of Everything processes.
They may be running in the foreground or background.
But when the hotkey fails, there are only two lines, both running in the background.

Raindrops

When hotkey fails to launch Everything:

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