Incorrect "!" transfer to Everything

[vassapup]

Everything syntax treats "!" as the NOT operator, so searching i.e. "!abc" on full disk root directory will simply hang the Total Commander (due to returning of very long list of all the MFT files records from Everything).

Everything needs backslashing of "!" and turning regexp on in order to search "!abc". But TC doesn't search "\!abc" with Everything for "!abs" as Everything does.

[petermad]

I can confirm that !abc is not found when Everything is turned on.

But I cannot confirm that TC is hung - it just takes about 10 seconds before TC listing the search. This is for my entire drive C: 197451 files in 39918 directories.

[vassapup]

It seems that Everything searches all the disks ( > 1 000 000 files for me). I got with "!" several times Everything and TC hang ups, (with need to restart Everything, because TC then says that the program is not ready and displays wait window progress).

[petermad]

All my NTFS drives only holds around 300.000 files all together

[ghisler(Author)]

So what would be the correct syntax to find a name starting with ! character?

[tuska]

So what would be the correct syntax to find a name starting with ! character?

Here are my findings (Attention to the * (asterisk)):

Filenames: !abc, !abc_Kopie

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ed:*!abc ................. finds ONLY !abc, does NOT find: !abc_Kopie
ed:*!abc_Kopie ........... finds ONLY !abc_Kopie, does NOT find: !abc

Filenames: !abc.jpg, !abc_Kopie.jpg

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ed: *.* !abc.jpg ......... finds *.* INCLUDING !abc_Kopie.jpg - does NOT find: !abc.jpg
ed: *.* !abc_Kopie.jpg ... finds *.* INCLUDING !abc.jpg - does NOT find: !abc_Kopie.jpg

/EDIT: Wildcards (from Search Syntax Help)
https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6197#p6197

[vassapup]

IMHO the right way to solve the problem is to contact with Everything developer (http://www.voidtools.com/contact/) to arrange behavior of Total Commander + Everything in future updates, i.e. Everything will recognise backslashing of "!" in normal mode (imho, unrecognizing of a backslashed operator as a simbol is kind of a bug) and Total Commander will backslash "!" to Everything.

[tuska]

Mmhh, I think I don't understand.
Below are a few more examples with results without TC hanging.

Filenames: !abc.jpg, !abc_Kopie.jpg

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ed:"!abc" ............................... finds !abc.JPG AND !abc_Kopie.JPG
ed:"!abc" !abc_Kopie.jpg ................ finds !abc.JPG NOT !abc_Kopie.JPG

Filenames: !abc, !abc_Kopie

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ed:"!abc" ............................... finds !abc AND !abc_Kopie
ed:"!abc" !abc_Kopie .................... finds !abc.JPG NOT !abc_Kopie

Filenames: zzz!abc.jpg, zzz!abc_Kopie.jpg

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ed:"!abc" ............................... finds zzz!abc.jpg AND zzz!abc_Kopie.jpg
ed:"zzz!abc.jpg" ........................ finds zzz!abc.jpg
ed:!zzz!abc_Kopie.jpg  .................. finds *.* but NOT zzz!abc_Kopie.jpg
ed:"zzz!abc.jpg" !zzz!abc_Kopie.jpg ..... finds zzz!abc.jpg but NOT zzz!abc_Kopie.jpg

ed:!abc ................................. finds *.* NOT zzz!abc.jpg, zzz!abc_Kopie.jpg
ed:"!" .................................. finds zzz!abc.jpg AND zzz!abc_Kopie.jpg

[jberry910]

I can confirm that if I use ev:\! it will search all drives. My selection is a single drive only, but this searches all drives. Using ev:! results in no files found.

I cannot confirm that it TC is hung.

For me this is the same behavior in 9.10b3 and 9.0a

[ghisler(Author)]

Using \! at the start seems to work for me, I will add it.

[vassapup]

It also returns files with "!abs" in full path. But it would be not TC bug.

[ghisler(Author)]

TC does filter the results received from Everything with its own search function (unless you use the ev: or ed: prefix), so this shouldn't be a problem.

[ghisler(Author)]

This should be fixed in Total Commander 9.10 RC1, please test!

[petermad]

Seems fixed - In TC 9.10rc1 just searching for: !abc (no ev: or ed: parameter) with 'Everything' enabled does find !abc wich it didn't before

[Flint]

Strange, on my computer it still does not work. Find result is just empty. I tested 32- and 64-bit versions, with clean INI. If "Everything" option is ticked — "No files found". Unticked — the file or dir I searched is displayed. Using Everything itself I also can find those names correctly.

Win7 x64, TC 9.10rc1.