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Feature: Add Everything search & folder size calculation

Open elliotttate opened this issue 5 months ago • 6 comments

Closes #5845 Closes #16979

  • Add Everything search engine integration as an alternative to Windows Search
  • Implement fast folder size calculation using Everything's indexing
  • Add settings UI to switch between Windows Search and Everything
  • Show warning if Everything is not installed with download link
  • Automatically use Everything for folder sizes when selected as search engine
  • Add safeguards for large directories to prevent memory issues
  • Support architecture-aware DLL loading (Everything32.dll/Everything64.dll)
  • Implement graceful fallback to Windows Search when Everything is unavailable

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/55a15c30-8385-4aae-86b1-593d31464307

elliotttate avatar Jul 28 '25 14:07 elliotttate

Also the folder size calculation doesn't work correctly. Randomly putting one folder size on others and changing when refreshing

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0f459b53-54ab-40b2-82a4-086e96fe6d3e

Josh65-2201 avatar Jul 28 '25 14:07 Josh65-2201

There a stack overflow crash (line 292) when in some folders and calculate folder size is enabled using Everything 1.4 image

Josh65-2201 avatar Jul 28 '25 19:07 Josh65-2201

@elliotttate this doesn't seem to work on ARM64.

yaira2 avatar Aug 13 '25 14:08 yaira2

@elliotttate this doesn't seem to work on ARM64.

As far as I understand, Alpha still does not support ARM64. But in theory, you can do 1.4.1 versions until 1.5A is available in ARM form.

bropines avatar Sep 12 '25 09:09 bropines

@elliotttate Are you able to continue on this?

Josh65-2201 avatar Sep 18 '25 21:09 Josh65-2201

Please get this done it would be so awesome to be able to see folder sizes and actually search with a good UI.

Omena0 avatar Nov 11 '25 22:11 Omena0