A helper tool to explore/browse folders in .efu files in Everything.
Similar to folder navigation in Windows Explorer.
Useful for browsing indexes of offline drives.
Tested with Everything 1.4.1.877
by Nod5 - Free Software GPL3 - AutoHotkey - Tested in Windows 10
Setup Everything to work with Everything Efu Explorer
1 Go to Tools > Options > Keyboard
and add shortcut "Ctrl+Y" for command "File | Close File List"
2 Go to View and enable Status Bar
3 Click Results header and enable the column "Type"
How to use
- Run everything_efu_explorer
- In Everything type ext:efu to search for .efu files
- Select an .efu file and press Enter or Alt+Enter or Alt+Right to open the .efu in Everything
When the .efu is open in Everything
- Alt+Enter = close the .efu file list
- Enter or Alt+Right = navigate into selected folder
- Alt+Left or Alt+Up = navigate to parent folder
Tips and Notes
Tip: add everything_efu_explorer to the Windows startup folder.
Note: everything_efu_explorer is "feature request ware". I hope the Everything developer likes it and makes these features native.
Background
Everything is a very fast file and folder search engine - a great program! It can save search results to .efu file lists for later use.
When a .efu file is loaded Everything lists all files/folders in the index matching the search string. But it can be useful to browse a drive index folder by folder, like when navigating through folders in Explorer. That is what Everything Efu Explorer enables. This makes it more convenient to use Everything as a cataloger for offline drives or discs.
Note: Everything Efu Explorer only works on already existing .efu files.
Steps to manually create an .efu file index for a single whole drive:
- Open Everything
- Enable the option Menu > Search > Match Path
- Search the drive. For example enter search string C:
- Menu > File > Export
A script to automatically save drive indexes to .efu files is available here.
Discussion forum: Here
SHA256 hashes:
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everything_efu_explorer.ahk
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everything_efu_explorer.exe
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everything_efu_explorer.zip
Changelog:
180509
change: require ctrl+Y as shortcut in Everything for Close File List (old: ctrl+L)
change: parse drive letter from second line of the .efu (old: parse drive from _C in filename)
clarified helpfile
180218
code cleanup
fix put paths inside quotes
160819
first version
- Version
- Downloads 407
- File Size 817.56 KB
- File Count 1
- Create Date May 8, 2018
- Last update 2018-05-08 17:45:39
- Last Updated May 9, 2018