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WinDirStat, it's a graphical representation of the contents on your harddrive, highly recommended if you're looking to free up some space
Also Everything, it's a program that instantly finds files on your computer, it's much quicker than the built in windows one since it indexes shit. It's very quick and light weight
Everything - Replacement for Windows Search in that it actually works and will find... everything.
To demonstrate, I placed a randomly-worded .jpg file into a folder on my C:\ drive. Here I use Windows Search, and here I use Everything.
> You can use everything.
You should at least capitalise that if you're not going to link, otherwise it's just confusing to someone who doesn't already know what it is.
https://www.voidtools.com/downloads/
Arguably it wasn't the best choice of name, but it did provide me with this amusing screenshot:
Everything by VoidTools. Very fast file search which builds an index for searching and is nearly instant. Can remember removable disks and search for files on them when they are off line.
I have accepted that it just doesnt work, I installed "everything" it gives you literally everything and is amazingly quick.
It's the first thing I install in a fresh windows installtion, I don't even touch that search bar.
For me,
ShareX. Probably the best utility for screenshots I've found. Also does a myriad of other things.
Launchy. The search function in the W10 start menu just.. doesn't work. I use Launchy to launch programs. Works nicely.
Everything. A search tool for finding stuff in any of your drives. Finds things almost instantly. Not an exaggeration.
Shoutout to Search Everything, an alternative to Windows Search. Only 1000x better. Searching for a translated version of a Windows app won't give you any results though. In order to find 'Kladblok' with Search Everything I have to search for Notepad but I guess that sort of makes sense.
I love mlocate in Linux. try Everything for Windows. Yeah, you could poke around in the word processor's settings and find the default save directory, but the tools I mentioned are great for finding stuff fast.
"Everything" is one of the first things I install. Builds an index using the NTFS file-system, effortlessly keeps the index updated (can index NAS as well), and then presents results instantly as you type. Wouldn't know what to do without it.
There are many alternatives, Launchy is a good one but I will insert my two cents.
For blazing fast file searches go for Everything Search.Everything Search. You'll love it. I don't know why Windows' file search still sucks after all these years.
As for a launcher, try WoxWox. It has a variety of plugins and is themable. Although I would recommend you downloading a fresh build instead of the latest release. 183 is still buggy with Windows 10 (I contrib on github to it, and yes we need to make a new one like yesterday). There is a getting started guide there too so you don't feel overwhelmed.
Go to https://www.voidtools.com/ , download and install "everything". Never look back.
It is lightweight and incredible fast, it finds every file on your PC everywhere.
I never got why the win10 search sucks so much. I mean, google is able to search the whole world internet for anything in milliseconds. The Win10 search does not even properly find files or apps that are installed on a single harddrive in my system.
> And don't get me started on the shoddy QA they do with Windows 10's search function... (Can't even find a application thats pinned to the damn start menu)
Everything Search picks up the slack.
Good meme
In Office programs (Word, PowerPoint, etc) go to File > Options > Save and see where the autosave location is set to (it should also have a button to open the folder)
For everything else, install Search Everything (it has a portable version, if you're on a school computer) and just search for "autosave" or similar.
I meticulously sort my data into different folder systems so that I know exactly where ever file should be located.
But if you want to be able to search all your data, I would recommend Everything. It indexes all your files, making them instantly searchable, and the even have guides for setting Everything up with a network drive.
to install:
- Chrome
- Firefox
- Greenshot
- Launchy
- WinDirStat
- Thunderbird
- Foxit Reader
- Open/Libre Office
- 7-Zip
- VLC
- foobar2000
- Notepad++
- Java 8
Then Everything to find files.
I think you should install this tiny program called Everything. Basically, It's a search engine that locates files and folders by filename instantly for Windows. Unlike Windows search "Everything" initially displays every file and folder on your computer.
It's the same one: https://www.voidtools.com/
It definitely does do contents searching: >Yes, "Everything" can search file content with the content: search function. File content is not indexed, searching content is slow.
ok. how about taking a step back for a bit. look at what Everything is doing. how they do it. Buy it if you must!. Compare it to what you are doing. Is there anything you can make better/more effective/more efficient with what you learned? can you integrate some of their features into Windows search/Cortana?
I know you have a good eye for good software. for instance, you realized Swiftkey was doing all the right things and you bought it and integrated into Windows, now would be a good time to send David a check and integrate that as well.
I never liked Windows file search, I use Everything (look at the faq for full info). I know this does not fix the problem in Windows but wanted to share something that works for me and might be a solution for you.
If it were me, I'd search my drive to see if I accidentally moved the folder.
If you run Windows, an invaluable tools that I use daily for finding files is Search Everything. In seconds it catalogs every file on your system, and lets you search for specific filenames.
Here is a screenshot of a search for "2018 .png". The space causes the display of all files with "2018" in the name, with the extension .png. (Picture)
Best of luck in your search.
Depending on which type of reset, a Windows reset can include a backup of user files. Before losing hope, load a comprehensive search tool and look for "level.dat". I suggest Search Everything.
Best of luck.
Wox and Everything. Install both, set up a key combination to open Wox, and you can search for everything in real time, no lag. Will even find those files you forgot you had from a year ago.
Everything Search: https://www.voidtools.com/
It's a Windows program that indexes all your files across all drives in real time (runs as a service, or just in the background), and lets you search for folder/filenames instantly. By default when you open the search window, it lists every single file and folder on your computer, then filters down as you type each letter. So much smoother/faster to use than searching complete terms (and hitting enter) multiple times by trial and error when you're not sure of the exact name of something.
The nice thing about this project is that you can just build the GUI part. Shouldn't be a great deal of work, so well suited to a hackathon.
Instead of building the filesystem indexer/database yourself, you can just utilize an index database from another program, like /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db (not real time), or maybe even rlocate (real time).
For me the real time indexing aspect isn't so important, more the filter-as-type aspect, and a nice simple & efficient GUI where you can right-click on results and quickly do stuff like:
- launch the file
- open the file or folder's parent folder in your file manager
- copy the folder or full filepath to clipboard
- The rest of the usual Windows File Explorer / other file manager options when you right-click a file (although the above three are more important in my opinion)
And of course like with a file manager, you can sort columns on: folder name, filename, modtime etc.
It's here, and it's free. Enjoy!
I guess that's the unfortunate thing with calling your app "Everything", it makes it tricky to Google for it! For future reference, I found it by Googling "everything search".
Boot into safemode, navigate to %windir%\System32\drivers and delete the ESEA driver(s) manually from there. After that also empty your temp folder by navigating to %temp%, pressing ctrl+a (to select everything) and then shift+del (to permanently delete everything bypassing the recycle bin).
Restart your PC and run driverquery | findstr ESEA* again, it shouldn't find anything now. I also suggest downloading Everything and searching for "ESEA" with it. Great program for other uses too since unlike Windows Search it actually finds every single file on your PC and does so instantly.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Injustice_2
The Steam version saves in the Steam folder so you'd have to find where the MS Store version saves (doesn't mention it on that page) and move it over.
Doesn't look like it uses cloud saves so it should be in the same format as Steam. It'll probably be saved in the %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\ or maybe WpSystem - easiest way to find it is with Everything.
Even then there's no guarantee - unless someone answers that's already done it.
A while ago I found an app called Everything that works really well - the search is pretty much instant and can find anything, is really customizable and works full-text. Highly recommended, haven't used Windows search since (as I wasn't really able to find any files on my 3 disks without waiting a year or two)
^^also ^^paging ^^/u/vikramdinesh ^^in ^^this ^^reply
There's a really nice one. Download Everything https://www.voidtools.com/ and find literally any file super fast, better and faster than Windows search even. It's even faster than if you let windows preload all file names, it can preload terabytes of files names very fast somehow.
Me, with the latest OS-native, damn-near-worthless, thrash-the-hard-drive, be-all-end-all indexing system that's supposed to solve everything. And then I still end up just installing Everything.
Filesystem, people. It's a system. For your files. Use it.
Every time someone mentions how useful and great Windows Search is now,nI shake my head, puzzled, and direct them to Everything instead.
To demonstrate, I placed a randomly-worded .jpg file into a folder on my C:\ drive. Here I use Windows Search, and here I use Everything.
"Everything" works really well on Windows, else it will depend on your file system, overall setup and what amount of data/files/metadata we are talking about.
Here is the link: https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/
Download Everything, it's a search executable which can literally find any file anywhere in your computer within seconds. It is MUCH better than Windows default search. https://www.voidtools.com/
Open it, type "Capcom.sys", right click the only thing that shows up, delete. Done.
Right click Windows icon > Control Panel > Indexing Options
- Make sure the locations you want windows to look for things are in the Included locations list
- Also make sure there aren't any Excluded locations which you actually do want to have searched (these appear on the right under Exclude, and apply to subfolders of the things on the left)
- Click Advanced > File Types > ensure that exe files are included in the index (and any other file types you want to show up under search)
- You can trigger a manual Rebuild of the index at this point (from the other Index Settings tab) to ensure that all the new/changed locations get added/updated to the index (however, this can take a really, really long time depending on how much stuff you have - some of the excluded locations are there for a reason as there can be 1000's of files in any given windows directory)
Consider not having the index look for a bunch of file types that you don't care about. If you want to do super fast total system search to look for any file or folder, where wildcards are permitted install Everything.
*Also Note: There seems to be a bug that if you click the windows icon and immediately start typing to access search it will show no results, however if you click the icon on the bottom or top left of your results (Find results in apps) then the items will pop up.
This so much. Everything can search my whole drive in miliseconds, but Windows struggles to find my Photoshop exe, most of the time bringing some text file with the actual program. Fix your shit MS.
Don't get me wrong, I love Windows, but coming from Linux everything is just so sluggish and slow.
seconded. everything is awesome. i use it all day every day. it's just sooo useful
it can be hard to google for given it's name, so here is a direct link with download options:
There are programs like Ultrasearch and Everything that use NTFS master file table to near instantaneously search through every single file on the drive even with a slow computer.
There is no excuse for windows search being so slow and useless as it is now.
I once had to delete 19 million files from a single directory. Any attempts to list the directory resulted in all the system's memory to be consumed and the system would effectively lock up. It was amazing.
I used voidtools everything (https://www.voidtools.com/) to filter and export a massive CSV list of all the files. Then powershell to parse the CSV and delete the files one at a time. It took a couple days but it damn well worked.
Let me abuse this opportunity to pimp the Search Everything tool
This indispensable app is a gamechanger - it you have logically named your files - you can locate it in a split second.
One of my clients is a 80 yr old woman dealing with 2 decades of word documents, logically named.
With this tool, she can find any document she wants in seconds.
It's the one tool i use constantly at work too.
I turn off the indexing service because it churns away for hours doing god knows what.
On windows 7, if in the little search bar in the corner you type "filename:blah" it will look for files named blah. It really is poorly documented, I hate the windows 7 built in search. Here's more info: http://www.howtogeek.com/73065/learn-the-advanced-search-operators-in-windows-7/
My favorite search tool is Everything
I use the tool Everything for that. You can bind it to a key combination and it is great. Sorting an unfiltered view by last modified and watching all writes happen in real time is fascinating.
Everything, www.voidtools.com is highly recommended. It takes a while when you first start it, but after that it's really quick and updates any file or drive changes instantly.
For organization, you can export the file lists from Everything or use VVV (Virtual Volumes View) to create searchable offline database of your drives.
I had this problem once years ago. You'd think windows search would get better over time.
To find all folders and files instantly just use Everything:
Everything uses metadata in the NTFS Master File Table to create its index.
The search function is terrible even with a SSD. I use a program called Everything. Absolutely no delays when searching an entire drive, it brings results as fast as you type. Try that with the Windows search and you'll be waiting minutes for it to finish.
Or you can use something like Everything and get instant results for any file on your computer.
Windows search, either in 7, 8 or 10 seemed like it never worked consistently, and was always super slow, even with indexing.
I haven't tried classic shell since Windows 8...totally forgot about that. I'll have to put that on my work machine. If someone wants something even smaller, there's another tiny search program called Everything that is super fast for searching in Windows.
Well they're usually marked as such with a (J) or [J] if you have a full set. Look up GoodSets (GoodNES, GoodSNES, etc.). Everything helped me out a lot with organising ROMs because it has a lot of search options and after the initial 30 second index you can search for any file (or files) instantly.
> I don't need my music player to organise my music for me, that's what the fucking file system is for
Why is it that software overall has forgotten this concept. I am an adult. I can use a computer. Filenames are long enough on modern systems. They have been ever since right around the time a home-computer CPU could play MP3s. (Well, barring the 64-character limit on Joliet, but who's burning CD-ROMs any more?) Just play my stuff as I gave it to you.
It's the same with video. Everyone goes gaga over Plex, but I can't stand that it tries its damnedest to infer what my files are instead of just showing me the filename that I set. So it usually just makes an unusable mess of missed guesses. Gimme minidlna (on my NAS) or Serviio (on Windows). I can handle this.
Hell, even file search. I don't need some sluggish, system-choking indexer to let me search the contents of every single file on the system. I either know where stuff is-- on account of I'm an adult who can use a computer, again-- or I name my files in a way that I'll be able to find them again, so a filename-only search will suffice. (If you're ever out Windows way and want a good filename-only search app, Everything can't be beat. It searches NTFS drives by just reading and monitoring the file tables, so it's stupidly fast-- "search-as-you-type across terabytes' worth of drives" fast.)
And don't get me started on OSs without filesystems... lookin' at you, iOS.
This and "Everything" are my two key file finders/big file finders.
Humor of the day: Try googling for a specific bug in the program "Everything" and you'll start laughing at the results... "problem with everything"
Lascia perdere la ricerca e indicizzazione di Windows che fanno acqua da tutte le parti.
Installa Everything. E' un software freeware con attualmente il sistema di indicizzazione e ricerca più efficace ed efficiente in assoluto.
Di base ti indicizza tutti i percorsi locali, puoi aggiungere manualmente tutti i percorsi di rete che possono farti comodo. Altrimenti forzando una ricerca su un percorso non indicizzato, effettua la ricerca nel modo migliore (eventualmente creando un indice di supporto temporaneo)
In background non occupa risorse e supporta una miriade di funzionalità di ricerca avanzata. Incluse regex.
Per una cosa semplice come serve a te basta una stringa simile
>ext:xlsx;docx "\Sample path\Sample folder" content:"Sample text"
Für Windows:
- Cmder - Konsolen Emulator
- Everything - Eine schnelle Suchmaschine für lokale Dateien
- Wox - Ein Launcher, der mit Everything gut zusammenarbeitet und meiner Meinung nach ein besseres Alfred ist.
I personally only use Windows 10 search for finding programs and that's enough for me. If I want to find a specific file then I use Everything. Windows search has always been god-awful.
I'm afraid if you didn't save it to your hard drive before closing blender it's gone. Blender doesn't save the images you create with it automatically, you have to save it manually. Maybe you can try searching through your hard drive with a tool like <em>everything</em>, but chances are, you'll have to redo it.
Everything, set to sort by run count, bind "show window" to a hotkey. I haven't used the desktop or taskbar in years. Finds anything instantly, uses nearly zero resources, and most things I need after using it for a while are 1 or 2 letters and an enter press because it learns from my habits. I don't even really sort my hard drives anymore, I just name the files and folders with key relevant keywords to find them.
> despues te desaparece hasta la busqueda basica de archivos porque es todo un sistema entrelazado de putos procesos intrusos
Creo que el mayor problema aca es que usas la busqueda de Windows en lugar de descargarte everything
Install voidtools' "everything" search tool from here:
Run it, give it a few minutes to build it's file indexes, and then search for .flp
I rely on it for remembering where my files are, and it's a lot less system intensive, and much faster at searching, than MS's default shitty indexing (which you can turn off once you're using everything).
Wow, thanks for the suggestion, seems like a nifty little tool. It reminds me of [Search] Everything, which I used to instantly pull the photos out of the individual folders.
My theory is it's intentionally crippled.
Giving you shit results when you're not paying attention triggers a web search, which in turn generates hits for Bing (and launches in Edge.)
Edit: Other frustrated people might want to look at Launchy or Everything which are both excellent alternatives.
For filenames and paths, download Search Everything by VoidTools (make sure to install it as a Windows Service or it will nag you with permissions until the day you die):
For searching text within files, download Agent Ransack by MythicSoft:
As /u/spoonerstreet23 said voidtools Everything is the best. It even has the functionality you want! If you look at https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/searching/ you can see the second from the last says:
Find folders in D:\music that do not contain an mp3 file:
d:\music\ !child:mp3
I have the search window set to toggle when I press alt-space. So I instantly can search for any file on my pc. It's all indexed so its lightning quick.
Search peaked at WinXP. I just want that back - tick a box to say I want files, or folders, or programs, or a term inside a file.
Indexing has improved since, but the search interface has devolved to uselessness. I ended up installing a utility called Everything to resolve it.
Interesting project.
I'd recommend checking out everything. It does something similar and is extremely lightweight. I'd be interested in a comparison between the content search speed of your search tool and everything (which is relatively slow searching file content).
http://www.classicshell.net/ - program that lets you customise everything windows. https://www.voidtools.com/ - a program called 'Everything' which is a program that finds things in an instant when you search for something.
Yeah, Windows 10 search is very broken. It's one of the reasons I still use macOS, despite hating the new MacBook keyboards, because search just works and I use it so much.
Everything works well for searching in file names but not contents.
I have a client who uses X1 Search which does search file contents, although it costs $50 per year. May be worth it. It also searches Outlook which is handy.
And FYI Outlook 2007 is EOL. Consider upgrading.
Did you check to see if a "windows.old" folder was created? Personally, I'd search the entire drive for your old level.dat files. I use a tool called Search Everything, which catalogs your entire drive in a few seconds and lets you find files anywhere on your system.
Search for "level.dat".
search everything is a nice little app that I found. You can set a keyboard shortcut to open it and then you just search for your file or folder or whatever. Faster than the file explorer and the cortana search in my opinion.
It's true, Everything by Voidtools is now one of the pieces of software I will always install on any new Windows system I run, ahead of anything else. I might use a different browser here and there but I don't honestly think I can go back to the builtin Windows search now that I've so thoroughly spoiled by Everything.
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^(This post not in any way sponsored by Voidtools but holy shit I love this software you guys, I'm not even kidding.)
C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Application data\Bitcoin (XP)
C:\Users\YourUserName\Appdata\Roaming\Bitcoin (Vista and 7)
Those would be the places that wallet.dat is stored.
You can download a program called "everything" (https://www.voidtools.com/) that is a very fast search for windows, and search for wallet.dat, or bitcoin, or any of those types of keywords if you think it's maybe somewhere else on your hard drive.
Something like recuva (https://www.piriform.com/recuva) might work for recovering deleted files... but of course it's best not to run that file from the hard drive you are recovering... put the hard drive into another computer and run it from there so no overwrites.
Can I recommend you a program?
Everything lets you search your hard drive(s) based on keywords, file types, RegEx and so on
Unlike Windows' search, Everything is instant, so it's a really really useful tool for searching through your entire hard drive for that one little file
two I did not see mentioned yet
- everything search, I love the recent changes where you can easily look for files created in the last x minutes
- fastcopy for local copying, it deals with long paths, it gives good log output, its not freezing on damaged disks, and its really fast for thousands of small files. Got it integrated in to totalcommander.
You can use Windows built in search with the 'date:' command.
'date:>11/05/04' finds items with a date after 11/05/04.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa965711(v=vs.85).aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa965711(v=vs.85).aspx#DATES
Or have a look at the faster search tool Everything.
Certainly not search. Windows 10 requires you to install Everything to even get a functional search feature. To this day, Cortana will refuse to search any drive aside from C:\
I use Launchy and Everything in combo to get something similar on Windows. Alt+Space for Launch, Ctrl+Space for Everything.
I'm pretty sure launchy can do file search too but I like the more detailed view of Everything when searching for files. Launchy is great for program launching.
Have her log into onedrive.com to see if they were getting stored there automatically.
Run Everything, wait for it to finish indexing, then do a search for one of the names of the photos or the file format they were in (like .jpg or something) ~ they may show up somewhere.
The indexing is kind of borked* but I even have issues with Classic Shell. I'm also using the enterprise edition.
*The borked-ness of the search is that it can sometimes not pull up the thing you know should be there. So you type in "Control Panel" and just brings back results from the web and not the Control Panel you need to make changes.
Other than this one single issue, I haven't had any issues at all (both personal and professional), so thats actually pretty amazing.
When the search is being stupid, I just open Everything | (ninite link)
Edit: I forgot, I hate how sticky the windows are when moving between monitors. I tried a fix when I first installed that didn't work but haven't tried much since then.
I don't know. It's the only real complaint I've ever had about Windows. It seems strange that theyve never put the effort into fixing it. Even if they have to do the whole 'powered by Bing' thing or whatever.
Whenever I do a new install, the first thing I do is install Everything. It''s the best OS search tool I've ever seen (locate is good on Debian/derivatives but it seems I always have to manually call updatedb or it doesn't stay up to date while Everything is immediate).
Some google thing still running somewhere - perhaps you have Chrome set to run apps in the background when the browser is closed? Check the Task Manager for google things running, check the Task Scheduler for any google tasks, check all the installed apps in Settings > Apps, run Everything, type google in the search bar to see where all the google things are in Program Data and AppData folders.
Also - by deleted, do you mean you uninstalled it properly? Probably the best thing to do is to reinstall Google Drive for PC, and then uninstall it properly by going to Settings > Apps and uninstalling it again.
Confluence is one of the worst things ever created. It’s nice for documenting research and it has JIRA “integration” and some “social” features (tagging people, comments, likes), but it’s impossible to find things especially if you don’t make good use of the spaces. It’s also extremely slow (like JIRA).
In my mind documentation software should be as fast as Everything and actually find relevant things and allow you to filter/learn to rank based on what’s filtered out.
I absolutely agree with you. To make your Everything experience even better, make sure you use the Everything v1.5 Alpha build. It can now not only find files and folders, it can index the contents of just about any file type you want, and it can index all of the metadata options available in File Explorer.
No, seriously, give Everything a try. If you search for stuff within your disks a lot it is a life changing experience, As a datahoarder, I'd call it a life changing experience.
https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/indexes/
>"Everything" will automatically index all fixed NTFS volumes.
>To manually index fixed NTFS volumes:
>- In "Everything", from the Tools menu, click Options.
>- Click the NTFS tab
>- uncheck Auto include new fixed volumes.
>- Click OK.
Usual recommendations are:
- First thing to try is search for files that have the same prefix but end with the extensions .blend1, .blend2 etc. This will only happen if you have Save Versions and Auto Save etc. setup in Preferences. If you use Windows, use the Everything search program by Void (https://www.voidtools.com/) as it's very quick, once setup, to search C: drive completely and efficiently because backup files may be in odd locations you're not aware of.
- If you truly can't get it to open, the last resort is create a new Blender file and then use File>Append to at least import your work. Try to Append whole Collections first and if that's corrupt, drill down to Model Material etc. and Append items in one at a time.
You seem to be missing a folder named "saves", which is where your worlds will be.
If I were in that situation, I'd check my recycle bin to make sure it isn't there. If not, I'd install a search tool such as Everything, which will rapidly find all files that match your search criterial. Minecraft worlds have all have a file called Level.Dat, which is what I'd search for. (Picture)
Download Everything by voidtools, it allows you to instantly search through your whole computer so you never face this problem again. For example, you could just search ".png" and sort by date for this case
I'd recommend a free program called "Everything". If ever I'm stuck looking for a new file I've just created I search for the file extension and sort by date modified, and it's right there at the top of the list.
Plenty more benefits outside of that one use-case. It's literally one of the first programs I put on a fresh OS install.
Edit: Link.
You're probably not going to want to dump the whole MFT as it will end up containing hundreds of megabytes of text that will be difficult to parse, much of which will be useless data anyway. A better way to do what you're asking might be to use an indexing tool like Everything Search to scan the MFT and collect the most useful metadata like each file path, name, size, and modification date, then export its database to another drive for safekeeping. It's easy to use and mostly self-explanatory, and it will let you quickly search the index for any file or folder (its main purpose).
Also, I love that you replied to my comment complaining about a bong to ask this question.
- Search for any folders containing name of the app
- Search for any registry containing name of the app
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/regscanner.html
ps: be careful while playing with registry files
I like to use a tool called Everything. Once it indexes all your files it's super fast. In your case you can use it to easily sort every file on your hard drive by size, and see what's taking up the most space.
Did you try the Recover methods I gave you to try to find them?
They won't disappear just because your computer crashes as long as it saves the file, unless your hard disk is faulty in which case you will have greater problems with your computer.
You could download a fast search program called Everything (https://www.voidtools.com) and search for *.blend*
But useful things like system search, Spotlight is better and more dependable than Windows search. You can install 3rd party utilities like Everything but similarly, you can install 3rd party windows management on macOS as well.
> Everything for searching windows
I just want to point out for people not familiar with it that "Everything" is actually the program's name and it's the best all purpose file and folder search tool for Windows hands down.
Glad you were able to fix it OP.
You might also want to look into Everything. I don't use it all that often but it's a powerful search tool based on the times I've used it in the past.
Best program I’ve ever used is called (Everything)
It’s totally free and fast.
It’s amazingly useful to find file types (pics, audio, video) put a file type like (jpeg, avi, or mp3)in the search bar and it will search every file on your computer and external drives. Not sure what file type SoundCloud uses but try it and you may get lucky and find some great shit you forgot all about!
It’s also great at getting rid of left over bits of viruses and crap (search name of the popup, or virus program and delete it)
Everything is a fastest desktop search and indexing utility for Windows that can rapidly find huge amount of every types of files and folders by name across many drives.
I am using this nifty tool. Search results are instantly, starts up really fast and uses almost no system ressources. Just rightclick the shortcut, properties and give it a key combination (I use Ctrl+Alt+S) so you can instantly launch it.
Sounds too good to be true, thats why I love it so much.
Could be a restore point. Download the search program, Everything. Then sort your computer by date modified / created. See if you cannot track down where the files are coming from. If the are coming from system volume information then that is probably the cause.
I consider backups and network shares separate processes and functions. For network shares, might be worth trying something like NextCloud since you gain the ability to share files like you would on any cloud drives. Plus there are sync clients for all of your platforms.
Also, insofar as you can share your NextCloud data directory as a network share, you can use something like Everything (https://www.voidtools.com/) to index and make it quickly/easily searchable. It looks like the dev is working on making exif a searchable parameter, which would make this whole process pretty convenient.
I know everything (program that indexes the contents of drives and lets you search the files super fast) is able to keep offline drives indexed. The only thing I'm not sure if each one of the drives would have to have a seperate drive letter (which is obviously not possible for your 110 drives) or if there is another way to individually index each drive without assigning a letter. Maybe mount points?
first right click any dll and "open with" and uncheck "always open with" and go to preferences and vst and remove all the path's left from "ADD'' and clear cache/ re-scan and then add the path to your vst's again and first use search everything to check the locations,because probably your dll's are all over the place,hope it helps.
Install Everything if you haven't already! - https://www.voidtools.com/ or from Ninite
TBH, I still use "dir" from command prompt way too often... I just never trust the built in Explorer search after it has missed too many files that I knew existed.