Everything 1.5a added color highlighting!

https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15904&sid=ca02a20c1c92a6f0644180d9a43ff1ae

This is great! The newest update, v1388, to EV1.5a adds color highlighting for directories and\or files types!

Can finally start match some of over the top dopus highlighting in EV now. :grinning:

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I am a fan of colored file types, so thank you for letting me/us know! o)

Associated icons and they appearance, they come and go and change constantly. Icons don't really help much to differentiate file types and groups of files. Files being colored resolves this and directories load noticeably faster as well! o)

If you stick to the same colouring in every application or OS, it really gives a coherent experience, whether you are in DO, Everything or even a linux terminal. No need for icons at all, we also had no icons in the file display on the amiga, it was not a problem! o)

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Without colouring, like in the regular Windows Explorer, it just looks really odd and the icons.. Kind of useless, it all blends together into some, I don't know how to call it, maybe "file and folder wishy washy".. o)

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Thanks! o)

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Agreed. Especially in everything. Will be able to instantly differentiate working files\dirs from the back up drives with this highlighting.

How does Everything decide what is a "dupe"?!..
Ah, it does not, but it is able to group identical files, is this dupe-grouping new as well?

Nope.

Thu Dec 09, 2021 6:34 am

https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=41786#p41786

They added "dupfrom:" recently.

Seems like it uses file size unless told otherwise.

This post examples forces a hash.

https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=71881#p71881

Thanks, it's kinda hard to follow all the news and software being used these days! o)

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Truth!
I have ~5 forums I check everyday. Dopus & EV are always first. They've the best, most exciting happenings!

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Is it possible to display the search results in Directory Opus issued by Everything v1.5a with color filters as well?

In Everything v1.5a interface, using Color filters, you can concretely have a foreground color which is different for files coming from C:\Windows and C:\Program Files folders:

When using DO with this Everything v1.5a and doing the same search


=> You do not automatically get the color filters in Directory Opus search interface using Everything v1.5a

Kris, please link your accoont.

@tbone I just came across this thread and I am really intrigued with your file types having different color schemes. This is something I would find absurdly useful. I also noticed you have coloring applied to different values in the columns data i.e. the dates and whatnot. How do you go about coloring the different file types and column data into different colored groups like you are showing in your screenshots?

@travibe

dopus has a few ways off apply custom colors, icons, and labels.

first you create your labels. set a name with your custom colors and icons on this page in prefs...

Preferences / Labels / Label Definitions

you can set any number of combinations affecting text and\or icons. I've about 30+


and than 2nd you use the page below it to create filters for file exts, names, paths etc on..

Preferences / Labels / Label Assignments

Yes, I have it setup in a similar way as xavierarmand is showing. I use multiple file extensions in a single filter though, it makes things more easy to adjust. For some reason I use a wild mix of Wildcard Labels, Filter Labels (and mixing regular expression and wildcards here as well). I guess this is due to some experiments with these labels in the past, but things work fine, so I don't bother to clean this up for now.. o)

You can also use the File Type groups of DO to colour specific file types, using these groups avoids collecting single file extensions into filter expressions, but it might have some downsides as well (you might need to create new groups if, you can't see directly what file extensions are affected in the Label editor etc.. ). Not recommending anything here, just telling what comes to my mind when looking at this.

My God.... its beautiful :astonished_face: lol

You are a man of complex tastes. I am going to be going over this for some time now, just one more way to hyper-specialize good ol' DOpus to my ever expanding needs.

Thank you guys for your help and pointiong this out!

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