Bug about "getproperty"?

[nikov]

Hi,
The following column formula should show the original media length of a ".lnk" file but it is failing:

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ext:lnk addcolumn:a:1 a-label:="MediaLength" a:=getproperty($shortcut-target:,"Length")

Note that, I tried with "Duration" and Canonical Names but they all failed.
Also note that, it does not fail to fetch some properties such as "Size", "Name", etc.
I noticed that, if I disable "Index file size" then size fetching also fails.
Why is this behavior? This behavior defeats the purpose of function like "getproperty" because property indexing can take a long time and a user will usually expect, this will fetch the currently listed files' property.
Is there any way to do this without property indexing?
Am I missing something or is it just a bug?

Thank you.

[void]

It's a limitation with getproperty().

Only indexed values are supported at the moment.

[nikov]

Thank you for letting us know.

I also noted this as an update in a related post:
viewtopic.php?t=14264

[void]

Everything 1.5.0.1367a improves get-property()

get-property() will now read the property from disk.

The following should now work as expected:

ext:lnk addcolumn:a:1 a-label:="MediaLength" a:=get-property($shortcut-target:,"Length")



You may want to format your length:

ext:lnk addcolumn:a:1 a-label:="MediaLength" a:=format-duration(get-property($shortcut-target:,"Length"))
ext:lnk addcolumn:a:1 a-label:="MediaLength" a:=format-duration(get-property($shortcut-target:,"Length"),"[h]:mm:ss")

get-property()
format-duration()

[nikov]

Many thanks for this fix/feature. But you may also note that, it cannot fetch "Run Count" and "Date Run" property. If they are property too then one may usually expect these are fetchable too.

[NotNull]

These are not in the Everything database; they are in external CSV files: "Search History.csv" and "Run History.csv"

Search- and Run History are even optional (Menu:Tools > Options > History )

[nikov]

Thanks NotNull, I saw these CSV files. But I only mentioned about "Run Count" and "Date Run" property, they are tracked by only "Run History.csv".
Although they reside in a CSV file or in memory but they are maybe still considered property too. They can be useful. I just thought and tried to remind the developers in case if they have forgotten to implement this, because programmatically it maybe not that hard; only in these two cases get-property() would have to fetch from CSV or memory.
All of these is to improve consistency and polish of this nice program.

[NotNull]

Yes, I guessed that much. Just wanted to give some background information.

[void]

I'll look into support for "Run Count" and "Date Run".

Thank you for the feedback.