Everything

Everything is a must-have app that does what it says it does in a clear, simple, flexible and very efficient way. Anybody working with a large number of files spread out in multiple directories will find benefit in using Everything.

How to use it:

1. Say you're looking for a file called "My_presentation_20180101.pptx", but you can't remember where you saved it (or even if that's what it's really called).
2. Open Everything
3. Every file on your computer is shown in a list
4. Start typing a few letters, e.g. "prese"...
5. As you type, Everything will reduce the number of items shown in the list to match what you typed
6. If you can't remember whether you used underscores or spaces in the file name, add another search term, e.g. "presen 2018"
7. Again Everything will narrow the list to all files that match the word "presen" AND "2018"
8. You can also exclude terms. Say you don't want those files containing the word "media", add the "!" exclude search term, e.g. "presen 2018 !media"
9. Again the list narrows

Very useful. Instantaneous. Small memory footprint. Not processor intensive. Lots of options.

No it does not search inside files, nor does it claim to do so, nor do I need it too do so ; that would make it too heavy and slow for my use.

Thanks Everything!

This app would be my go-to search if it didn't routinely overwrite and destroy its own database settings. No point to this app for me if I can't specify which parts of my drives I want indexed.