compress filelists

[fpefpe]

I been working on a slow download in a vm running everything -- I have large "file list"
since these files are just text, wold it make sense to support gzip compression? adding a new filetype *.efuz ?

To test this, I had one file compress over 85%

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I will consider gzip/zip efu file support.

Bzip2 support could be added easily since Everything already uses bzip2 for the language pack and database compression.

Thanks for the suggestion.

For now the best solution would be to compress and extract the efu file manually.

It might be worth noting, once you have indexed a file list the %APPDATA%\Everything\Everything.db can be copied and opened else where with -db command line option in Everything:

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Everything.exe -db Everything-filelist.db

Make sure Everything is not running before using the -db command line option.
The Everything.db will be much smaller than a gziped efu file.

[fpefpe]

Hello -- thanks for the info -- bzip2 is fine too -- I think it does a better compressing job than gzip --