Portable Search Index?

[kkpatel87]

Hi all,

Is it possible to install the portable version of Everything on a removable drive and index only files on that removable drive? The reason i ask is I have a fairly large library of technical specifications and i would like to make it portable.

A similar application is Dropout http://dropout.codeplex.com/releases/view/118354 but i like the interface of Everything much better. Thanks!

[therube]

If the drive is formatted NTFS, you can do that directly.
Just deselect the wanted drive letters you don't want indexed.

If not NTFS, you can use Folder Indexing & again deselect what you don't want.

No reason necessarily that Everything has to be on the removable drive.
It can be on your HDD.
Create a shortcut & use the -config switch to point to an appropriate config file (.ini).

[elfor]

Something like that would be nice, maybe a true "homedrive" option or command line parameter.

So if i run "Everything.exe -homedrive" from my F: usb drive, only that F: drive is indexed.

Everything else, C: D: or whatever, is ignored, without having to deselect anything by hand!

[NotNull]

How about:

(assuming Everything.exe is somewhere on your USB disk)

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start /wait "" Everything.exe -create-file-list SpecsLibrary.efu \
Everything.exe -instance "TechSpecs" SpecsLibrary.efu

This will create a fresh FileList of the USB disk (*) (the "\" is the root of the current disk; you could also specify "\MyFolder" for example);
the "start /wait" makes sure the indexing is complete before going to the next phase:
Load the freshly createds filelist as a new Everything instance.


(*) The drive letter will probably be different from the last machine where you used this, so a rescan should be done anyway (or is there a way to make the path universal?

[NotNull]

... OR ...

* Place Everything.exe plus Everything.ini on said USB disk
* Configure for non-admin Folder Indexing and save
* Manually change the folders= this entry in the INI file to :

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folders="\\"

(or folders="\\path\\to\\MyFolder" )

You can now double-click the Everything.exe on the USB disk to get only the content of the USB disk with the right driveletter.


EDIT: Added a preconfigured INI file, so you can test.
As said, put Everything.exe and this INI file somewhere on your USB disk and start Everything.exe
Please make sure no other Everyhing is running; this is a simple non-instance testversion.

[elfor]

Confirmed, it works, you did it again...

I also added db_location=nul, used the -nodb command line parameter, and set the ini to read only.

Now that's portable!

[NotNull]

Confirmed, it works, you did it again...

I also added db_location=nul, used the -nodb command line parameter, and set the ini to read only.

Now that's portable!

Nice!

If you want to be sure that your prortable Everything doesn't interfere with a running "regular" Everything, use instances.
(otherwise it will connect to the already running regular database)

Something like this:

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Everything.exe -config Everything.ini -instance "This is cool!" -nodb

If you don't specify the ini-file, Everything will create one extra on exit using the name of the instance.

[elfor]

This is now my final line:

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start Everything.exe -nodb -db nul -config Everything.ini -instance Portable

Notice the "start" at the beginning?

That's so the command window closes immediately, instead of staying open in the background until Everything.exe itself closes, pro tip!

I also added/disabled these two setting in the Everything.ini (which i write protect):

run_in_background=0
show_tray_icon=0

So you don't just minimize the program thinking you closed it, rookie mistake.

[NotNull]

Another tip:

Use START "" everything.....
START regards the first parameter, if included in "", as the window title.
So, if you want to START "C:\path with spaces\everything.exe", that is regarded as the title and not the command.

To prevent that, make a habit of always adding an empty "" (or "dummy" or "title" or whatever)