Thanks again for this amazing software, others should learn!
Two unrelated questions:
1. Sometimes I need to search files in a specific folder, so starting the search with \ brings a list of matches but if there are similar folder names with spaces it would be useful to autocomplete a folder path, such as in linux shell.
2. I have seen a thread to search Outlook message files but would like to know if I can search Thunderbird messages.
Path completion is on the to-do list for a next major version of Everything.
But that will likely be the path from the beginning, so starting with C:\...
Otherwise Everything would have to path-complete 7401 folders if you type \w (that is how many folders start with a "w" on my system).
You can enclose your foldername in "" if it contains spaces.
According to several forum posts, searching in Thunderbird messsages is possible (use the forum search; top right of the page), but at a glance there was no instruction how to do that. Hopefully someone else steps in to help you further (no recent personal experience with Thunderbird)
[*] And personally, I hope that includes variable completion. That way I wouldnt have to type %LOCALAPPDATA% in full.
therube wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 3:04 pm
Is TB using (text based) Mbox?
If so then wouldn't a
content:
search find (text strings) in the particular Mbox file?
TB is text based and
content:
will find the Mbox files that contain the search string. In the case of many Mbox files with few messages in each, this would be workable, but I suspect that is not the usual case. (Note that Thunderbird MBox file names have no extension)
therube wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 3:04 pm
Is TB using (text based) Mbox?
If so then wouldn't a
content:
search find (text strings) in the particular Mbox file?
TB is text based and
content:
will find the Mbox files that contain the search string. In the case of many Mbox files with few messages in each, this would be workable, but I suspect that is not the usual case. (Note that Thunderbird MBox file names have no extension)
I switched Thunderbird to the Maildir format a long time ago.
This has many advantages and also the benefit of finding content with Everything
or even better wirh the Windows indexer.
