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Find Files enhancement
Posted: 2023-05-27, 08:56 UTC
by wanderer
Would be nice to have a way to exclude junctions from the search...
Re: Find Files enhancement
Posted: 2023-05-27, 09:47 UTC
by petermad
Help wrote:IgnoreLinks=0 Allows you to ignore hard links (junctions, reparse points) to directories in various functions. Note: The function "Synchronize dirs" uses a separate option "SyncIgnoreJunctions".
Sum of:
1: copy/move/calculate occupied space
2: internal packers (zip, tar)
4: branch view
8: find files (except when using Everything), re-scan tree
16: ignore links even when they are selected in the current directory. Otherwise only links in selected subdirectories are ignored.
Re: Find Files enhancement
Posted: 2023-05-27, 11:12 UTC
by wanderer
2petermad
Hey, thanks but that's permanent. I was talking about a checkbox to be able to set it on-demand.
Re: Find Files enhancement
Posted: 2023-05-27, 13:17 UTC
by petermad
2wanderer
Yes, that could be nice++ - it would be even nicer if the TC-setting could also set 'Everything' to not follow junctions...
Re: Find Files enhancement
Posted: 2023-05-27, 13:59 UTC
by Horst.Epp
petermad wrote: 2023-05-27, 13:17 UTC
2
wanderer
Yes, that could be nice++ - it would be even nicer if the TC-setting could also set 'Everything' to not follow junctions...
Everything doesn't follow folder junctions by default with NTFS indexing.
Re: Find Files enhancement
Posted: 2023-05-29, 18:18 UTC
by NotNull
petermad wrote: 2023-05-27, 09:47 UTC
Help wrote:IgnoreLinks=0 Allows you to ignore hard links (junctions, reparse points) to directories in various functions.
This Help text needs some serious fixing....
- There is nothing to "follow" in hard links. It is just another pointer to the same "inode" ( ~ another path to the same file)
- Folders can't have hard links
- junctions, reparse points are not a manifestation of hard links
- A junction *is* a reparse point
- Missing here is another form of reparse points: (Directory) symbolic links.
Re: Find Files enhancement
Posted: 2023-05-30, 08:55 UTC
by Vasilich
@NotNull
1. in quoted help text there is no any entry for word "follow". Have you mixed it with Peter's answer?
2. Folders can have junctions. I assume you want to propose to use "soft links (symbolic links and junctions)" instead of "hard links (junctions, reparse points)" ?
3. see 2
4. see 2
5. see 2
Re: Find Files enhancement
Posted: 2023-05-30, 15:27 UTC
by NotNull
Vasilich wrote: 2023-05-30, 08:55 UTC
1. in quoted help text there is no any entry for word "follow". Have you mixed it with Peter's answer?
No. That is just the common expression when talking about links: You follow a link (to get to the target of that link)
2. Folders can have junctions.
Never said they couldn't. Even stronger: ONLY folders can have junctions.
(which technically speaking is incorrect; don't want to complicate things even further)
I assume you want to propose to use "soft links (symbolic links and junctions)" instead of "hard links (junctions, reparse points)" ?
The only thing I proposed is to fix the current description as It is wrong on too many levels. How that is done is not up to me.
I have no idea what you want to tell me/us with point 3,4 and 5?
Re: Find Files enhancement
Posted: 2023-05-31, 07:37 UTC
by Vasilich
i just want you to propose the proper text instead of just pointing to mistakes. Or to take my proposal
Re: Find Files enhancement
Posted: 2023-05-31, 09:07 UTC
by NotNull
I can't. I have no idea what the IgnoreLinks setting actually does. Or should do.