Added support for voidtools everything DB#515
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Inspired by #505, I remembered I had some code lying around to parse the database of Voidtools Everything, very similar to mlocate/plocate, but for Windows.
I updated the code and added it to the codebase.
Because Everything is closed source, this is completely based off of reverse-engineering the code, and I haven't found any reference implementation on the internet to help (AFAIK this is the only parser), so this is all based off of my (not too great) reversing skills.
I've tested this on ~10 random database files I had lying around, from multiple computers, all of them have given exactly the same exact results as Everything itself (checked by exporting to CSV and comparing md5sums).
It should support any DB created since 2017, and if given a broken file, I'm willing to add support for earlier versions as well.
All comments are mine, written while reversing the code.
This is relatively slow code (takes 4.5 seconds for a DB with 126828 files),
I have a version written in Rust which is 22 times faster, and if that's something you are interested in, then I'm happy to try creating bindings with Py03.