Super User Asked by ChrisB on February 6, 2021
How can I prevent Everything Search Engine (a Windows file and folder search utility by Void Tools) from indexing files without extensions? In other words, I want the index to include only (1) files with extensions, and (2) all folders.
I found much written about how to search for extension-less files and even how to exclude them from a search, but nothing on how to stop Everything Search from indexing them in the first place.
The search below can exclude extension-less files:
!!file:*.*
The negative of this doesn’t work when trying to exclude files from the index (Tools > Options > Indexes > Exclude > Exclude Files):
!file:*.*
(doesn’t work)
!!!file:*.*
(also doesn’t work)
I can search for and return a list of files without extensions like this:
ext:
But oddly, the negative does -NOT- work to exclude files without extensions from a search (also doesn’t work for Indexes > Exclude Files):
!ext:
(doesn’t work in a file search; doesn’t work in the "Exclude Files" criteria)
For now, my workaround is to set the search defaults (Tools > Options > General > Home > Search) to custom and the criteria to !!file:*.*
. Extension-less files are still in the index, but excluded by default from a search.
Does anyone know how to actually exclude extension-less files from the index? I’m using version 1.4.1.935.
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