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I found this thread to figure out what "-rescan-all" is, since it's now in the released build. It's not mentioned either in the -? help or the place on the site documenting the switches. So, the difference with -reindex is the http aspect mentioned above? Anything else? It's a little uncle...

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One thing I'd be curious about: when that happens, is it a subset of 3rd-party services or all of them? If it's a subset, I bet it's a case of Defender being overzealous with some smaller, less familiar services. If it's not a subset and it takes out even extremely well-known ones like Google Update...

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I've never seen a major Windows update (and by that I mean a build update as opposed to a CU) remove non-Microsoft services, including yours. Such a practice would be a catastrophic bug that would never fly given the number of 3rd-party services that essentially every system has. But as I did specul...

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Everything should not be missing changes to NTFS volumes. I think I've finally figured out when this happens. Let me run this scenario by you. What happens when there are a LOT of changes, as in a build-to-build Win10 upgrade, which I do practically every week with Win10 Insider? Afterwards, and no...

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The new indexing, what they're referring to as "Find my files," only indexes file system metadata, which they say is up to 100x faster than file content indexing. That's what I was referring to. It also automatically excludes OS files and temp areas. Windows still does have its traditional...

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This test build announced a new form of indexing: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/10/24/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-18267 It didn't sound like much, but when you add in the extra information from this developer-oriented article, which also discusses the new form of i...

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Thanks for pointing that out. I must not have understood that before though, since I did have "Run as administrator" checked, and I wouldn't have had that (and bothered to deal working around the related UAC prompt) had I known that using the service (also checked) was just as effective. I...

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I always had "Run as Administrator" checked, but I must have implemented one of the UAC workarounds a long time ago, and it must have come undone with the upgrade. I'll backtrack to see about that. It's been so long, that I thought the purpose of the service was to avoid the UAC prompt, bu...

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This is obviously not a big deal, since builds in that branch of Windows won't be out for a half year, but I thought I'd mention something that's puzzled me since installing it today. I have Everything 1.4 (895) (also tested with latest 1.41) configured for "Run as Administrator" and "...

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OK, so I do have some excludes (though "Exclude hidden/system files and folders" are not checked), which have fooled me before: cache folders in the data profiles of several browsers, c:\windows.old, $Recycle*, and System Volume Information*. I rarely use Recycle Bin at all, deleting almos...

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I'm seeing something similar, though it's not about any particular type of file that I've noticed. What happens is I go to search for something that I absolutely know is there (and is not new), like skype.exe for example, and it doesn't find it. But it will find any number of other things that I thr...

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I think what you're describing is a chicken and egg situation from Everything's standpoint: how can it warn a user that the given results (if any) are being altered by a filter if it's supposed to be ignoring what's in the filter list? Meaning that it should have no knowledge of any results in those...

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Because it's so easy to setup exclusions with good intentions and for good reasons, and then forget all about one or more of them months or years later when you're not getting a result on something that you know exists, might it be a good idea to include an option that in this scenario would display...

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No. I'd actually forgotten that Explorer had that feature. I purely use players like VLC.

I see the DLL is not in memory at the moment despite Firefox being open, but I haven't been checking since.

No further crashes, btw.

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I mention this just on the off chance that it's relevant seeing that it happened in Win10 14376 (once today, once yesterday) and never before to my memory. Note that this was seen with 713b (I didn't know of the existence of 719b until today.) It was just sitting on the tray both times this happened...

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That's not a special file AFAIK, and it shows up fine here in a later Windows (the version of Windows shouldn't matter). What version of Everything are you running? Are you sure that you're indexing what you think you are (try rebuilding the index) and that you haven't made any errant exclusions? Ca...

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Great find, gdv! I often forget about that file (not everything in Everything can go in the UI, though I think that one can).

There have been other gems too, like "hide_on_close=1", which will retain your last search results in the Everything window instead of clearing it every time.

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Last Searched makes sense to me, but I was just thinking of those who'd prefer Most Frequently Searched (i.e. the way it is now).

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I agree with Specular, that this list should be in chronological order. Many times I'm looking for the search that I searched just recently. As I mentioned before I think it should be also History Button instead of the triangle. This just registered with me today--that the most recent isn't on top....

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void wrote:If this information is cached by Windows, it will only take a few seconds to rescan.

While Everything is not running, try making a folder eg: foobar and see if it shows up in the index after a -reindex.

It does, so that must have been it! That never would have occurred to me.

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OK, got it. Is -reindex supposed to handle folder indexing though? I tried running the above command on a system with only folder indexing, and Everything exits in a couple seconds, seemingly doing nothing more than refreshing the timestamp on the .db file. It would take much longer than that if rea...

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Hi. I noticed "improved -update -exit" in the beta release notes, which probably fixes the items you had mentioned above.

What does this mean now for the best way to do an automated reindex? Are the two separate everything lines still needed, or is it better done with one?

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On one machine which has several local volumes that I had excluded from indexing ("include in database" unchecked for each), upon upgrading to 1.4b from the last 1.3, all of the local volumes were switched to being included in the index. This shows in the UI, but it's easier just to show w...

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The main problem though is that unless you have Everything running in an active session, the date and size of the folders/files as viewed on the Web server for drives created this way do not show up, just the folder/file names (regular drives are fine). So, if Everything is running via the Everythi...

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Thanks, I knew it had to be somewhere.

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I'm sure this option exists, but I've gone through the obvious places and am just not seeing it. Let's say you do a search, get results, and then "close" Everything (it doesn't really close--it just minimizes to the tray). You then click on Everything again and your search and its results ...

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Love seeing a new version! I noticed "database now stored in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Everything by default" in the release notes, but except for the portable version, I can't seem to get the .db to write to the installation dir despite making the appropriate selection during install, verifying &quo...

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Thanks, I didn't notice that's what it was.

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I mention this not because of interest in this particular file but in case it might mean something more. I happened to be looking for winmail.exe, which exists in "Windows Mail" beneath Program Files and Program Files(x86), when I discovered that Everything didn't find it on the system in ...

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Thanks all, it looks like it's working now.

I wish I'd noticed that -update switch before, but somehow I missed it. Still, even if I had, I doubt that I would have combined it with START, which is very subtle and not often needed in batch files.

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We had amazingly similar trains of thought on this. To start with the end, yes, for -reindex one of those two things would be ideal. I think the "Force rebuild" from within the GUI, while accomplishing the same thing, is doing it in a different way since no DOS box is invoked. I actually h...

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OK, I did that, and sent the results to the email mentioned in that other post, but I think this is a batch file issue and not a problem with your program (and it's not even related to indexing). Since the batch is sequential, it will wait forever, if necessary, for the first command to complete. Si...

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Thanks. That's what I've tried, however.

The second line doesn't run because the program never exits. The batch must interpret that as the first command still executing.

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OK, so I tried that, but killing Everything prevents it from writing the db, so that's out. So what I'm trying to do is have Everything exit elegantly after the -index so that the db is written out. Is there a way to index and exit? Or at least make the index write out the db? I tried running the -e...

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I've found that when running Everything as a service that the index is never updated, despite the check box being checked that's supposed to do that. So I figured, no problem, I could stop the service at night, run -reindex, and then start the service. The problem is that -reindex runs the program t...

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I had tried that in XP/2003 earlier, since I recall long ago it making a difference with some other program, but it didn't affect the problem. What I mean specifically is taking the service off the "system" account and giving it admin credentials. I hadn't tried it in Win 8.1 though, so I ...

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Thanks I can add a few points of clarification/correction to my last post. First, SUBST drives do show up in NTFS if you have "Auto include new fixed volumes" checked. It doesn't make a difference for this issue though. Next, SUBST not showing up via Add in Folders in Win7/8 has nothing to...

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I've been playing around with SUBST and NET USE (for shares) to map drives to particular directories. That would be a good solution but for some complications. First, I should mention that such drives do not show up in the NTFS section, but that's not really the problem since they can be added via F...

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If, for example, one is required to use a port other than 80 (and even if not, really, but especially if so), is there some trick to create a custom URL like this: http://search Instead of: http://YourPCName:81 A related question pertains to this old thread, which I didn't want to bump. Is that sugg...

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Thanks. I will get on this and report back.

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Hello. Since the release of the new version, I've rediscovered Everything for the first time in many years and am loving it. I think it's an incredible achievement given its size. It seems impossibly fast, too. My question centers on the Web server. I've seen the page about customization, including ...

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