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[Ignatius]

Hi,
I download lots of videos and I often need to check to see if something has already been downloaded. Often the name is not enough so it would be very useful if you could have to option to see the length of video files. This may make the indexing and searching a bit too long but I thought I would at least throw the suggestion out there.
Ig

[NotNull]

This is possible in Everything 1.5:

• Search for:

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  video:   length:2h40m..3h

  This will find all vidoes with a duration from 2hour,40 minutes up until 3hours
  
  Some other related searches:
  length:2h will find duration from 2h to 3hours
  length:<1h10m will find videos shorter than 1hour, 10 minutes.
  
  See the Search Syntax for more options and details.

These searches might take a while as each video file needs to be inspected individually.
To make these searches *instant*, add the video length to Everything's index:

• Go to Menu:Tools > Options > Indexes > Properties
• Click the Add button
• In the left pane, select Video
• In the right pane, select Length
• Press OK
• Configure Include only folders: , Exclude folders: and Exclude files: to your liking
• Press OK
• Let Everything index the container filenames
  (progress bar will be shown in the statusbar of the main Everything window)
• Done.

From now on searches for the length of video files will give instant results.


You can even show an extra column in the resultlist with these lengths:

• Right-click the header of the resultlist, for example on Name
• Select Add Columns from the context menu
• In the left pane, select Video
• In the right pane, select Length
• Press OK
• Done