File Filtering on Specific Drive by Settings

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eeriemyxi
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File Filtering on Specific Drive by Settings

Post by eeriemyxi »

I am using a desktop program called Wox and it has a default plugin to search disk files using Everything. Their GitHub team said that to filter the results, everything should be done on Everything's side; then I tried checking out the settings of this tool and I did manage to globally exclude some files and folders, but now I want to include only files with .lnk and .exe extensions from the C drive (Windows), how can I achieve that through the settings?
Last edited by eeriemyxi on Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:16 am, edited 1 time in total.
void
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Re: File Filtering on Specific Drive by Settings

Post by void »

To include only .lnk and .exe files in Everything:
  • In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
  • Click the Exclude tab on the left.
  • Change Include only files to:
    *.lnk;*.exe
  • Click OK.
eeriemyxi
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Re: File Filtering on Specific Drive by Settings

Post by eeriemyxi »

Thank you, but unfortunately I didn't see my typing-mistake of not including the C drive into my first post before posting it, now that the textual modifications have been approved, what would be the correct method to limit the search results of a specific disk partition through the settings?
void
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Re: File Filtering on Specific Drive by Settings

Post by void »

Everything will index all your NTFS volumes by default.

To choose which volumes Everything indexes:
  • In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
  • Click the NTFS tab on the left.
  • For each NTFS volume in the list:
    • Check or uncheck Include in database.
  • Click OK.
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