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Add support for custom Everything instances (File Search) #866

Closed vvirtues closed 1 year ago

vvirtues commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I use Everything Alpha (1.5a) but FS does not recognize it as an indexer. I realized that this is because it uses its own instance name to differentiate from another instance (instance name 1.5a). If you add support for custom instances, not only can users use a custom everything instance for FS but also add support for 1.5a, since FS doesnt detect the alpha

Describe the solution you'd like Add support for custom instances/instance names for FS when using Everything as the file indexer

Describe alternatives you've considered Switching to normal Everything installation

Additional context At first I had no idea how to solve the problem of incompatibility with everything-alpha, but I noticed this line in a different program's README (https://github.com/srwi/EverythingToolbar) that mentioned that if you were using the alpha, you had to set a custom instance name for the toolbar to work

vvirtues commented 1 year ago

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adirh3 commented 1 year ago

To use Everything 1.5 with Fluent Search do the following -

  1. Completely exit Everything (File -> Exit) and Fluent Search 2 .Open your Everything.ini in the same location as your Everything.exe
  2. Change the following line: alpha_instance=1 to: alpha_instance=0 4, Save changes and restart Everything
vvirtues commented 1 year ago

To use Everything 1.5 with Fluent Search do the following -

  1. Completely exit Everything (File -> Exit) and Fluent Search 2 .Open your Everything.ini in the same location as your Everything.exe
  2. Change the following line: alpha_instance=1 to: alpha_instance=0 4, Save changes and restart Everything

Thank you, but the Everything.ini file is actually supposed to be Everything-1.5a.ini

pzhren commented 2 months ago

Use everything as the index, but the search results are inconsistent with everything, what if some of them are not searched.