Everything does not appear to be indexing whole drive.

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pjaj
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Everything does not appear to be indexing whole drive.

Post by pjaj »

I'm running the latest 64 bit Windows 10.
Everything does not appear to be indexing the entire contents of one of my disks.
C:\Users\peter\AppData\Local\Everything\everything.db is 183,468Kb and time and date stamped within the past 5 minutes.
The disk it is having problems with is a 6TB Raid disk (G:) (4 X 3TB in RAID 10 configuration), currently holding about 1.4TB of data.
Rather than partitioning it into separate virtual drives it has 8 major folders, Peter, Downloads, Image Library, etc.
There is a separate, external 10TB backup drive (F:).
Every file I've looked for so far has been indexed on the backup, but some are not visible in the original subfolder on the RAID disk.
For example there is
F:\FileHistory\peter\DESKTOP-KSRK4F1\Data\G\Peter\Books\MyFile.pdf
on the backup disk, but Everything does not show the corresponding
G:\Peter\Books\MyFile.pdf
On closer examination Everything has found only 12 of the ~60 pdfs in that particular folder & its subfolders on G: but all of them in the corresponding backup on F:.
Have I missed a setting somewhere?
Have I met some inherent limit?
NotNull
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Re: Everything does not appear to be indexing whole drive.

Post by NotNull »

Older versions of Everything might have missed some files under special conditions (for example: system was *very* busy).
You can make Everything re-read your disks by pressing the Force Rebuild button (can be found under Menu:Tools > Options > Indexes)
That will probably be enough to fix this.

Newer versions of Everything are less prone to missing files, so make sure you are running version 1.4.1.969 or later.
pjaj
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Re: Everything does not appear to be indexing whole drive.

Post by pjaj »

NotNull wrote: Sun Apr 12, 2020 2:40 pm Older versions of Everything might have missed some files under special conditions (for example: system was *very* busy).
You can make Everything re-read your disks by pressing the Force Rebuild button (can be found under Menu:Tools > Options > Indexes)
That will probably be enough to fix this.

Newer versions of Everything are less prone to missing files, so make sure you are running version 1.4.1.969 or later.
Thanks, I was hoping not to have to do that, but I'm giving it a go now. I am running version 1.4.1.969
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