Content Indexing - "Include only folders" and "Exclude folders"

[richiek]

This is so cool!
I have a question about the format of the "Include only folders" and "Exclude folders" input. I have some folders structures along the lines of:

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c:\basedir1\subdir\subdir2\...
c:\basedir2\subdir\subdir2\...

so there is a shared hierarchy but with different base directories (all being indexed by Everything).

So I tried to do this in the "Include only folders" input:

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*\subdir\subdir2\

and

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subdir\subdir2\

to catch that same subdir hierarchy in the two locations, but neither worked. I had to add the two directories in full. Now in reality I have quite a few of these specific subdirectories I'd like content indexed and they have corresponding hierarchies in a few different locations, and I'd really prefer not to have to add them all in-full. Did I just do something wrong with my two attempts above?

[NotNull]

Everything 1.5 uses new wildcard matching.

If your folders are on the same level/depth, like in your case:

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c:\basedir1\subdir\subdir2\...
c:\basedir2\subdir\subdir2\...

, you can use C:\*\folder\subdir\subdir2\

Alternatively, use

**\subdir\subdir2

to also search for content in X:\folder\subdir\subdir2\

If needed, regular expressions can aslo be used to describe the folder patterns.

[void]

Thank you for your feedback.

Please try the following "Include only folders":
**\subdir\subdir2


*\subdir\subdir2
will work with the latest Everything 1.5 Alpha

Version 1.5.0.1242 allows wildcards filters to match from any subpath, for example:
*\subdir\subdir2 will match c:\subdir\subdir2 and c:\rootfolder\subdir\subdir2

This is now the same behavior with a normal Everything search.
Test the following search in Everything to see the same results as your wildcard filters:
*\subdir\subdir2

hmm, I've just discovered the search: *\hosts

[richiek]

Ah, great! That is a nice concise syntax.

[richiek]

Okay, I updated from 1238a to 1242a to get the latest and try this, and something is definitely not working for me.
I tried removing all inclusions/exclusions entries except one "Include only files" entry set to "*.hlsl" - so everything is pretty much blank except for that one field.

A normal Everything search for "*.hlsl" shows a lot of files being indexed.
However, a search for "content:" shows no hlsl files at all being considered.

Now if I go ahead and modify "include only files" with "*.cpp" I see a bunch of cpp files when I search with "content:". Same for "*.h" (so they're both successful). I did explore this further just a bit: I tried with "*.vcxproj" and nothing came up. So I'm really curious why some extensions are working and not others, and my index definitely has file names with all the extensions I tried.

[void]

Thank you for the bug report.

Everything was ignoring content for unknown file types.

Please try the latest Everything 1.5 Alpha.

Version 1.5.0.1243a will now search for content in known file types, then try iFilters, then try text/plain.

I've expanded the known file types to include hlsl, vcxproj and many more.

You may need to force a rebuild from Tools -> Options -> Indexes to get Everything to pickup content in these files.

[richiek]

Great! That seems to be working for me now.

Many thanks.

[void]

A little more about which files Everything treats as text/plain:

text/plain file types

[menes]

Hello,

Is it possible to add a dialogue to choose/modify exclude folders at the "Properties" panel in options in the same way as in "Folders"? (A list of Added Folders, a list of Excluded Folders with the appropriate file pickers (Add / Add Custom)).

[void]

Thank you for your suggestion menes,

I have on my TODO list to show a ... button to the right of the exclude/include folders.
When clicked, Everything will show the list of folders from where you can add/remove/edit etc.

[menes]

This is great, thank you!