Button command: New lister tab displaying all created/modified files/folders between now and

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I'd love to have a few buttons in my toolbar that can quickly open a new lister tab in list view displaying all recently created and modified files and folders, between a specific time period on a specific path based on an Everthing search, like the following...

Button 1
New tab w/ all created/modified files/folders between Now - One month ago on C:\ (System)

Button 2
New tab w/ all created/modified files/folders between Now - Two weeks ago on C:\ (System)

Button 3
New tab w/ all created/modified files/folders between Now - One week ago on C:\ (System)

I have no clue on how to effectively achieve this and would be very appreciative of any help!

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Try:
1:
FIND CLEAR QUERYENGINE=everythingglobal SHOWRESULTS=tab COLLNAME="1 month ago" QUERY c:\ dm:<=1month|dc:<=1month

2:
FIND CLEAR QUERYENGINE=everythingglobal SHOWRESULTS=tab COLLNAME="2 weeks ago" QUERY c:\ dm:<=2week|dc:<=2week

3:
FIND CLEAR QUERYENGINE=everythingglobal SHOWRESULTS=tab COLLNAME="1 week ago" QUERY c:\ dm:<=1week|dc:<=1week

Change the "|" in every case if you want "AND" instead of "OR".
Note that this would probably add a lot of noise from files you're not interested in, so you might want to also specify some extensions. In that case add ext:ext1;ext2 after c:\ in every command line. Note that there's a space in between.

3

Thank you for your quick response @errante !

I've tried them without much luck: 'No search results were found.'

For the lot of noise reason you mentioned I've changed the path to F:\ (my data drive), which was my main usage goal anyway, under the assumption I should at least be capabale to modify the C:\ path letter to F:\ all by myself :sweat_smile:

Same codes with drive letter F:\ did gave me search results in a new tab, though most of the result files/folders are way older than a week/2 weeks/1 month ago, dating all the way back to the 1990's, so it seems there is something not correctly computing with the date range part.

And if I may also ask, say I would like to add a second path in the same code line to search in, for instance F:\ and E:, how would I add it in a proper way without messing things up?

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Eureka! After some puzzeling I found why I obviously got 'No search results were found.' on my C:\ drive, I have it excluded from indexing in Everything, so no wonder. :sweat_smile:

I also..

  1. Updated Everything to v1.5.0.1405a
  2. Set alpha_instance to false in Everything > Options > Advanced > alpha_instance=false (which I though I had already done in the past but apparently wasn't or may have changed with the latest updates)

No more funny retro search results now, all buttons working smooth and correct!

Thank you very much @errante for these very handy buttons :star_struck: