Total Commander

• In Total Commander, browse to the textfile that contains the filenames and highlight it.
• Click on "the other button"
• Everything will open with all matches
• Ctrl-C/Ctr-V or drag/drop the files to a folder in TC.
• Done

TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
"C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe"
-filter Everything -search-file-list %P%N
C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe
Search for a list of files anywhere
C:\Program Files\Everything\

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NotNull wrote: 2021-03-04, 18:41 UTC I am really curious if the 'fake files' method is faster?

@echo off
cd /d %~dp0
set filelist="%~1"
set filelistpath="%~dp1"
echo %filelist%
echo %filelistpath%
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('type %filelist%') do echo %%a
for /f %%a in ('type %filelist%') do echo %%a >%filelistpath%\%%~nxa

NotNull wrote: 2021-03-04, 19:34 UTC That is also a possibility .. I interpreted it as "a folder with many sub-folders"

So instructions if you want to search for the filenames everywhere (multiple folders, disks, etc:

• In Total Commander, browse to the textfile that contains the filenames and highlight it.
• Click on "the other button"
• Everything will open with all matches
• Ctrl-C/Ctr-V or drag/drop the files to a folder in TC.
• Done

"The other button"

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
"C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe"
-filter Everything -search-file-list %P%N
C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe
Search for a list of files anywhere
C:\Program Files\Everything\

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MARK2580 wrote: 2021-03-04, 22:52 UTC The first time I tried to use this program, when I needed to search for files every day in one folder where there are 160,000 files and 23,000 folders,
TC did it very slowly.

[✓] Run as administrator
[✓] Everything Service

2. TC Parameter --> ev: wrote: "However, the search is only carried out in those drives/folders that have been defined accordingly in the 'Everything' settings,
i.e. under menu "Tools" - "Options..."
- Indexes: NTFS (Local volumes) - ☑ Include in database,... (Hard disks + USB drives: NTFS formatted)
- Indexes: Folders - ☑ Attempt to monitor changes, ◉ Update (e.g. network folders, USB drives[FAT32,...], etc.*))
- Indexes: NTFS https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/everything_service/
- Indexes: Folders https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/folder_indexing/

*) etc. means in this case: Drives that are not NTFS formatted."

If 'Everything' is checked - without the prefix ev: - then the search criteria of TC (with the support of 'Everything') apply,
i.e. you still get the search result much faster than if 'Everything' is not checked.

Maybe I'll try to make friends with this program again. The first time I tried to use this program, when I needed to search for files every day in one folder where there are 160,000 files and 23,000 folders, TC did it very slowly. And I did not understand how to create a permanent database in Everything that will be used to search in this folder and deleted it.

petermad wrote: 2021-03-05, 11:24 UTC Maby the screenshots in this post can help you: https://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=365262#p365262

MARK2580 wrote:And another question: how (in the program itself) to search for a file in a specific directory, and not on the entire device?
Or it is only possible with the TC search box.

C:\Tools\Everything\ searchword (replace "searchword" with your search term - watch out for the space between path and search word)
C:\Tools\Everything\Everything.ini   OR e.g.
"C:\Tools\Everything\Toolbar in the Taskbar\Migration\Everything Toolbar in the Taskbar.txt"  <- blanks, then use "" quotes

TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
C:\Tools\Everything\Everything.exe -parentpath
%V
C:\Tools\Everything\Everything.exe
Open PARENT PATH\*.* [.. F2] (INCLUDING SUBDIRECTORIES) of TC in Everything (-parentpath)|Cursor position doesn't matter!|https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/command_line_options/|https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/searching/
C:\Tools\Everything\
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MARK2580 wrote:udp: another question, why does Everything show up in search results ?

Menu "Tools" -> Options... -> "Results" -> [✓] Hide results when the search is empty

tuska wrote: 2021-03-05, 17:48 UTC In my opinion, we are now digressing a bit too much from the actual topic (file lists).
Questions about 'Everything' should be dealt with in a separate topic.

MARK2580 wrote: 2021-03-05, 18:10 UTC

tuska wrote: 2021-03-05, 17:48 UTC In my opinion, we are now digressing a bit too much from the actual topic (file lists).
Questions about 'Everything' should be dealt with in a separate topic.

I agree
Thanks for the detailed descriptions, I will read them later, unfortunately my native language is Russian and I will have to translate all this from the beginning, and then try to understand it.

MARK2580 wrote: 2021-03-05, 15:48 UTC Can you briefly? Those. this program constantly hangs in memory and monitors all operations with files, create some kind of database? Is it because of this that she searches quickly?

And another question: how (in the program itself) to search for a file in a specific directory, and not on the entire device? Or it is only possible with the TC search box.

"C:\my folder\"  "some file"

folder\  "ome fi"