was inactive with 1.5
Sorry guys for this question but how to setup everything in Dopus? I have Everything latest version installed but can't find it anywhere. Also top bar search field i only see "Windows Search..." and not "Global Everything search" as shown.
Disabling the Everything 1.5a instance:
- Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
/alpha_instance=0 - Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
- If successful, alpha_instance=0 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.
Restart Everything:
- From the File menu, click Exit.
- Restart Everything.
2 Likes
I feel like I'm probably missing something really obvious here, but when selecting which search tool to use from the drop-down, what's the difference between "Everything" and "Global Everything"?
- Everything (Local) – Uses Voidtools Everything for an indexed search below the current folder.
- Everything (Global) – Everything indexed search of the whole machine.
2 Likes
Got it. Seems obvious. Gives the ability to always use the full machine search vs current dir. Thanks!
Before I abandoned by custom scripts for size/count columns since they couldn't match native performance with many items due to per-item scripting overhead, I had answers to these 
:
As far as I remember, this can easily result in an ∞ loop for folders, so you wouldn't follow.
But the more general solution is to simply have both:
- "true" size column: don't follow any symlinks etc.
- "dumb copy" size column: follows symlinks (for files) and calculates their size, so that when you copy a folder to another location, the size of the resulting copy would match (of course, with advanced copies you can copy symlinks as symlinks, but then see above, there is a column for that)
For hardlinks as files: you'd have a column that uses
Size/# of hardlnksthat would reflect the "true" size burden on your disk (and and icon that shows it's a hardlink, and another column with a count of hardlinks) and- column that simply shows single file size.
For folder calculations, you'd again have two:
- sum up only the former "true" size burdens, so the folder size would dedupe, and then another
- sum up all single file sizes, so folder size would be higher than the true disk cost, but would match if you made a "dumb" copy of this folder
I'm having this issue of search not detecting Everything. Does anyone have a solution?
I have v1.4.1.1024 (x64) installed and running. The folder size options has Everything checked:
Click the magnifying glass on the left, not the dropdown on the right.
1 Like
I have a strange issue with Microsoft Edge.
Every time MS Edge updates I get this discrepancy between how DO (13) reports the directory size. I have Everything 1.4 installed and I refresh the indexes manually.
I've never noticed it before so I can't say if it existed in DO 12 or not.
This appears to be the only folder that experiences this issue.
I have noticed after a few days the issue appears to be gone until the next update.
It's like MS is hiding something and then at some point says it's done hiding and removes it.
Hi All
I am very new to Directory Opus although I have been using Everything for over ten years (I think!).
I can get the 1.4 versions to work very easy, but tried all the above suggestions but cannot get version 1.5 to work at all. I love that version for the speed and dark mode, but 1.4 is still very quick with DO compared to the very slow Windows Search. Any other solutions would be very helpful. Thanks
1 Like
In the .ini for Everything, make sure only one instance of alpha_instance= exists and it is set to 0.
In Everything - Tools - Options - Context Menu - Open (Folder) is set to:
$exec("C:\DOpus\dopusrt.exe" /acmd Go OPENCONTAINER PATH "%1" OPENINRIGHT NEWTAB)
Use your path to Everything.
Run a search in Everything, not in Opus.
When the results appear, double click on the Path column for the item found.
Opus will open that path in the right hand side of a dual lister.
2 Likes