search "Everything but .lnk"

[hispalo]

Hi, I´m a new and very enthusiastic user of Everything and I´d like to suggest something. A new option for the search menu consisting in search everything except files with .lnk extension. Until now I do this including "!.lnk" alongside the others items I´m searching for, but I think it would be great have this as a built-in option. Thank you.

[therube]

Tools | Options | Indexes -> Exclude

[hispalo]

Thank you.

[Stamimail]

Pay attention that using Exclude, will exclude all .lnks from the index (=database), so that you won't be able to find any .lnk later.

You might look at a Filter solution.
Enable
View > Filters

Search > Manage Filters...
Add NEW filter
Search:

Code: Select all

!ext:lnk;url

For using this filter as default behaviour, choose it in
Options > Home (tab)

[merlinuwe]

This solution doesn't work for me in 1.4.1.895 (x64)

If I search for lnk, *.lnk, or !.lnk in the search window, I get the wished results.

But when I use these entries as a filter, they have no effect. What can I do?

[merlinuwe]

Ups - found it by myself:

[matze]

If you only want to exclude .lnl / .LNK files sporadically, you can enable the "AND/OR/NOT" filters and append " AND NOT .lnk" to your search:





(I noted that even though the AND/OR/NOT operators are translated in the options dialog, the English operators "AND" / "OR" / "NOT" need to be used.)

[NotNull]

I noted that even though the AND/OR/NOT operators are translated in the options dialog, the English operators "AND" / "OR" / "NOT" need to be used.)

What version of Everything 1.4 are you running? Current version is 1.4.1.1024
Here it is translated to: AND, OR und NOT Operatoren erlauben

Language packs can also be downloaded separately here.


Speaking of which .. just took a quick look at the German translation. Some things seem off (to me, not a native speaker).
Maybe someone with better knowledge of the German language can take a look at it?

menu:View > ... Thumbnails
... Symbole = Miniature / Miniaturbilder

menu:View => Sort By
Geändert am = Änderungsdatum
Erstellt am = Erstellungsdatum


Menu:Help => Everything Help
Online Hilfe = Everything Hilfe
(help can be offline too)


Options:

Indexes => Exclude
Ein/Ausschluss = Ausschluss


General => Quick Launch shortcut
Verknüpfung im Infobereich der Taskleiste erstellen = Verknüpfung in (auf?) dder Taskleiste erstellen


UI => Run in background
Immer im Hintergrund bleiben = Im Hintergrund bleiben / Im Hintergrund halten



( and I thought I saw "Bei Start" instead of "Beim Start" somewhere. Can't find it anymore )

[NotNull]

If you only want to exclude .lnl / .LNK files sporadically, you can enable the "AND/OR/NOT" filters and append " AND NOT .lnk" to your search:

Everything uses the exclamation mark ( ! ) as the NOT operater by default.
So one of these should do it too:

Code: Select all

!ext:lnk
!.lnk