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Everything 1.5 beta (May 2026) - adds drag-and-drop to Poser and DAZ, tagging, Boolean search

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Electro-harpist

Admirable
The freeware local search tool Everything 1.5 is now in open beta (May 2026). It can now drag-and-drop from your runtime to the Poser or DAZ Studio stage. It also adds tagging, and is even faster than before. Everything 1.5 Beta - voidtools forum

Setup:

1. Options | Folders | Add. Add your runtimes. 'Index Subfolders', 'Never Rescan'. 'Rescan now'.

2. Top Menu | Search | tick 'Match Path'. This picks up your keywords in the file path, as well as the filename.

3. Options | Search | tick 'Allow Literal Operators'. This lets you use the Boolean AND, OR and NOT in search queries. e.g. M4 hair NOT chair

4. Top menu | Search | Organise Filters. Add a new filter to remove unwanted filetypes from results, such as...

NOT *.jpg NOT *.xmp NOT *.obj NOT *.dso NOT *.rsr NOT *.dsv NOT *.pmd NOT *.db NOT *.tif NOT *.dsd

Add more unwanted filetypes as needed.

5. Now do a test search. Sort search results by 'Date Created', to have drag-drop items sitting right next to their thumbnails. Drag-drop has been tested for figures, poses, clothing, expressions. All working.

Tagging sensibly uses the Properties | Tags metadata that Windows has in all .PNG files. Thus no special third-party software is needed to add/remove tags from your runtime thumbnails.
 
Alisa

Alisa

RETIRED HW3D QAV Director (QAV Queen Bee)
Staff member
QAV-BEE
I've moved this to the Freebie Resources section, where I think folks will find it more easily. I will wait for the non-beta release of the newest version, and haven't used it for DS or Poser, but this is a seriously awesome program. I have used it for years, and it's SO far superior to the normal Windows Explorer search. I have it open all the time.
 
English Bob

English Bob

Adventurous
Thanks for reminding me about Everything. I hadn't used it since version 1.3 (more than ten years ago!) Recently I've been resorting to using the Linux Mint file manager's built-in search to find things - it's a lot more intelligent than Windows. I had to do this again today, and it will be a lot more sensible to have a decent search on the same machine that runs Poser. The drag-and-drop should be a useful bonus.
 
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