{"id":12129,"date":"2019-11-07T21:28:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T21:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=12129"},"modified":"2019-11-07T21:28:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T21:28:42","slug":"everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2019\/11\/07\/everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

My thanks to the editors of the latest PC Pro<\/em> magazine for making me aware of Voidtools’s Everything<\/a> freeware. It’s a super-fast file-finding tool, and one which can be restricted to indexing just a specified folder. <\/p>\n

It’s freeware, and similar to the old Agent Ransack. But it’s an almost instant file-finder, because it builds a local index. Here it’s showing results for the Torba caveman character for Nursoda’s Doctor Pitterbill…<\/p>\n

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I installed it without its NTFS disk-indexing option, as I was hesitant about having its driver-services persistently loaded at startup. This meant that I had to run it in Windows Administrator mode, which it then needs to build an index of files. I was pleased to find I could still have it index the main folder containing all my key Poser\/DAZ runtimes. <\/p>\n

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Scanning of all my very large Poser\/DAZ runtimes then took about five minutes, and it resulted in the Everything utility instantly becoming a very nice super-quick alternative to PzDB. It’s especially useful for those times when you don’t want to spend time loading and unloading PzDB, nice though PzDB is (because it understands the Poser\/DAZ content systems, is a lot faster than P3DO, and has many other features).<\/p>\n

Once installed you then just learn a few tricks with Everything…<\/p>\n

A plain search for torba<\/strong> will also show DoctorBa<\/strong>g in the search results. However if you turn on “Match whole word”, this problem vanishes.<\/p>\n

You can search for a phrase the usual way. For example, “lost world”<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can bookmark results. For instance you can bookmark:<\/p>\n

*keyword path:libraries
\n*keyword path:props
\n*keyword path:face
\n*keyword path:textures
\n*keyword case:MAT<\/p>\n

You load the bookmark and just replace ‘keyword’ with the real one. The path:<\/strong> command means you only get results from specifically named folders. case:<\/strong> finds only CAPITALS. Useful when all your MAT files use upper-case.<\/p>\n

Why the *keyword<\/strong> and not just keyword<\/strong>? Because a partial word won’t do the job. For instance, search for ShaaraMuse3D’s 3S_MysticRedLands props folder with just redlands<\/strong> will get you no results at all. What you need there is *redlands<\/strong> where the wildcard *<\/strong> tells the software ‘could be anything here’. It seems that *keyword<\/strong> and “Match whole word” can co-exist nicely.<\/p>\n

However in some curious cases it won’t. For instance, RealMenHair<\/strong> will find nothing. A search for *ealMen<\/strong> will also find nothing. Yet *RealMen*<\/strong> will<\/em> find the RealMenHair folder. So if you can’t find anything using the above methods, add a * wildcard to the end, as well as to the start of the search.<\/p>\n

Also note that words need to be complete. Thus Vacuum<\/strong> will not find Vacuum_Zeppelin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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You can even then view results with Thumbnails of the folders, showing visual hints of what’s inside. One can also sort by “date created” and thus get a basic form of content-clustering. Both settings can be embedded in a bookmark.<\/p>\n

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What Everything won’t do is try to preview images and files natively. Instead a quick double-quick launches the folder in Windows Explorer, or previews the .PNG in IrfanView (or whatever speedy image previewer you use).<\/p>\n

Nor can it add keywords as tags. A use-case for that is: one can’t find all Nursoda content in one’s runtime, because Nursoda does not use his name in the content’s file-path. One would then need to have PzDB to add a “Nursoda” tag to all his characters and their content. This would make them findable in one search. <\/p>\n

Can Everything do drag-and-drop to load a character or prop into a Poser scene? If it can show the result directly in results, yes. I had success with the Doctor Pitterbill .CR2 file. However, if the result is inside a folder, then you’ll need to open it in Windows Explorer and drag-and-drop from there.<\/p>\n

Everything should be used in combination with the free RSR to PNG Converter<\/a>, which will add .PNG thumbnails to runtime content if these are missing. <\/p>\n

The old Agent Ransack is worth keeping though, as it integrates into your Windows mouse right-click in Windows Explorer, and thus can be used in tandem with Everything…<\/p>\n

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My thanks to the editors of the latest PC Pro magazine for making me aware of Voidtools’s Everything freeware. It’s a super-fast file-finding tool, and one which can be restricted to indexing just a specified folder. It’s freeware, and similar to the old Agent Ransack. But it’s an almost instant file-finder, because it builds a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companion-software","category-freebies","category-poser","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}