Not sure what made this suddenly appear here after so many years, but I LOVE this tool, and now that I'm on MacOS, I REALLY wish there was an equivalent. It's mystifying to me why this isn't a built-in OS feature.
I like Listary - I haven't used Everything to compare, but I'm aware that they're similar.
For text file contents I'm a huge advocate for ripgrep , and for metadata...to be honest I don't have a great solution, so I'll be keeping an eye on the recommendations here.
Spotlight is no where near as feature complete as Everything. Everything literally searches "everything". Searching every single file on your disk matching a regex sorted by file size, piece of cake.
Alfred does a great job of fast, system-wise file search. Not sure if you need the Powerpack or not, but Alfred’s file command (and the rest of it, come to that) is such that I call it a macOS necessity.
I don't want to put Everything down because I still think it's a good app but anecdotally I have seen Everything using constant % CPU (I assume it was indexing search, and it wasn't a huge amount but still). This is across a few PCs I've put it on.
I believe Wizfile doesn't have an index as it does everything via the MFT so I don't even need to keep it running in the background at all times unless I want to quickly call up search. YMMV.
Does this support network locations? Mapping to a drive to make it work in everything works for some things but in general everything is pretty bad at non-physical and non-local drives.
Edit: Doesn't seem like it. The drive that I can add as a folder in Everything doesn't show up at all in WizFile
I'm not 100% sure as I don't search network locations, but from what I can see you can add Network-ed computers via Options -> Select Drives -> Add Folder.
I only have my own machine right now to test but searching seemed like it might work?
Their WizKey program looks like it might solve one of my biggest Windows frustrations after switching from the Mac. If it can reproduce the Mac's way of typing accented characters (eg Cmd-U followed by o to type ö) then I'll be buying it shortly.
I haven't tried that one, I'll add it to the list. So far I've been using AutoHotKey and a script I found somewhere, which mostly works, but is a bit awkward to setup.
I use the Japanese input method (from the language pack) to solve this. Wish I was joking, but when in hiragana input, you're still able to input words from a Romanji base, and entire English input in full width characters if you start you word with a capital. As the IME has to compensate for having multiple words from the same keystrokes in Japanese, with Roman characters, you get accented characters in the same menu.
I don't exactly see this as a great solution, but with my limited use, it surprises me that this is restricted to a CJK input
Great suggestion. For those comparing Everything and Wizfile (which I just installed), it looks like Wizfile doesn't support regex whereas Everything does.
This is the only tool I miss from Windows on macOS and linux both. It allows you to search for every single file on your system, allows regex searches. It also allows you to sort the matching files by any arbitrary criteria, e.g, size. It is also incredibly fast, so searching a 1TB HDD is instantaneous. People are mentioning Spotlight here, and I think it is better than Windows search, but is simply not as good as Everything. I haven't tried Alfred so won't comment on it. On Linux also your best bet is to use find( or some gui which does something similar), but no tool offers the same kind of instantaneous full disk search like Everything.
Everything use a feature provided by NTFS file system, so the `updatedb` part is incredibly fast, i haven't found anything that can even come close on macos/linux.
What I'm really after is a web based search portal for all my network data that's hosted on SMB shares. It needs to be easy to setup and manage (so my other half can use it) and understand Windows domain security. Google-in-a-box used to do it (badly), and MS SharePoint Search (bloated and slow). Neither of which are suitable these days. Any ideas anyone?
Something like this, or the Sublime text omnibox (whatever it's called), is what the Windows search box should be.
Ie the one you get when pressing the super/win button then start typing. It's embarrassingly bad currently. Typing 'word' the first suggestion is wordpad, not ms office word, despite me never running wordpad other than on accident. Not only bad string matching, it doesn't take into account how frequently I use either app, despite the user tracking the OS does. Strange is the land indeed.
I love this tool. Windows search is really really bad, and for some unholy reason throws Cortana and Bing into it. I want to search for things on my PC not the internet!
This, along with xplorer2, are among two most used programs on my Windows computer. Really quick in general, including thumbnail generation for pdf/images/etc and monitoring folders/files in realtime.
Pretty good tool. Have been using this for many years.
+ Supports REGEX search.
+ Enable HTTP server and then expose the port using ngrok and you can search your system from anywhere.
+ Supports Hotkey (Ctrl+E is what I use)
I typically use `[Win] + [S]`, which feels more natural to me. Easy way is to disable default Cortana search bound to `Win+S` by a registry hack [1] or just use AutoHotkey [2].
Interface-wise we got Fsearch (https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch) on Linux, but it's not feature complete. I love Everything, and I get a bit nostaligic over these simple but feature packed windows apps that are all but living fossils in the .NET and WFP times.
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You can hotkey it if you have a shortcut stored somewhere.
Right-click on the shortcut → Properties → Shortcut menu → Shotcut Key line
"foobar" may match a file named foosomethingbar.
Like this: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*VeGVAZsCVUYXrbI37...
I use Alt + / to search, get results, then again to close the window right back to whatever I was foing
For text file contents I'm a huge advocate for ripgrep , and for metadata...to be honest I don't have a great solution, so I'll be keeping an eye on the recommendations here.
Its somehow begun to suck by making too many assumptions
That plus Wiztree [1] as a replacement for Windirstat have made me a real fan of the devs.
[0] https://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wizfile-...
[1] https://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-...
Between Wiztree and Windirstat it's obvious as Windirstat is extremely slow.
I believe Wizfile doesn't have an index as it does everything via the MFT so I don't even need to keep it running in the background at all times unless I want to quickly call up search. YMMV.
Edit: Doesn't seem like it. The drive that I can add as a folder in Everything doesn't show up at all in WizFile
I only have my own machine right now to test but searching seemed like it might work?
They don't show up as normal folders in explorer.
https://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wizkey-m...
This looks promising, thanks for the tip!
I don't exactly see this as a great solution, but with my limited use, it surprises me that this is restricted to a CJK input
I cant use a computer for dev without locate
If I Ctrl+F while an explorer window is open it allows me to search within that folder. Same with desktop, documents and taskbar.
Ie the one you get when pressing the super/win button then start typing. It's embarrassingly bad currently. Typing 'word' the first suggestion is wordpad, not ms office word, despite me never running wordpad other than on accident. Not only bad string matching, it doesn't take into account how frequently I use either app, despite the user tracking the OS does. Strange is the land indeed.
[0] http://www.donationcoder.com/software/mouser/popular-apps/fa...
custom keyboard shortcuts:
CTRL+SHIFT+E - open everything
CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+q - filter pdf -> ext:pdf
CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+e - filter excel -> ext:xlsx;xlsm;xlsb;xltx;xltm;xlt;xls;xlam;xla;xlw
CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+d - filter all documents -> ext:xps;pdf;msg;docx;doc;pptx;ppt;xlsx;xlsm;csv;xlsb;xls;
documents or downloads folders -> path:documents|path:downloads
Best alt-tab supplement out there, lets you change programs by typing their name with auto-complete.
[1]: https://superuser.com/a/707293
[2]: https://www.autohotkey.com/
I haven’t gone deeper into it to see how I can avoid duplicate results.
[1]: https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox
I love VidTools Everything - but for videos you might want to see previews of the content ;)