Everything

[[https://www.voidtools.com/|voidtools' Everything]] is a live file search tool for windows. I find it very useful for a number of scenarios.

Trying to find a file

The obvious case of not being sure where something is. The immediate response of Everything helps when I only know some parts of what I'm looking for.

For example, I had [[tools:imagemagick|tools:imagemagick]] installed on my windows machine, but it wasn't on my path. I wanted to use it to convert the logo for this wiki from a png into an .ico.

I used this query in Everything:

path:imagemagick ext:exe

and instantly knew where all of the exes belonging to imagemagick on my entire machine were.

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Observing a build (or other operation)

TODO: Describe sorting by last modified and filtering path, then running a build