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Results show a valid path, not a path that does not exist
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:54 pm
by Earl
Maybe a stupid question but I do not know enough about Everything yet.
Maybe I am doing something wrong, but when I get results back I can do things with the results but not all of them. Many results when I click them say that windows cannot find the path to the result, it rings a bell and shows a red cross. And it is correct, the path does not exist (anymore).
I want to see only real paths that work, not ones that cannot be found.
Is there a way to do that, I cannot find it yet.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Earl Specht, The Netherlands
Re: Results show a valid path, not a path that does not exist
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:44 pm
by void
Please make sure Everything is installed correctly and running as a standard user:
- In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
- Click the General tab on the left.
- Check Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything.
- Uncheck Run as administrator.
- Check Everything Service. (Please make sure this is tick-checked and not square-checked)
- Click OK.
- Exit Everything (right click the Everything tray icon and click Exit).
- Restart Everything.
Please try forcing a rebuild:
- In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
- Click the Indexes tab on the left.
- Click Force Rebuild.
- Click OK.
Does the issue persist?
Re: Results show a valid path, not a path that does not exist
Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2023 9:07 am
by Earl
Hello (David?)
It works now.
The first part of the fix, was good, I did not have to change anything.
The second part did the trick, Rebuilding.
I have never done a rebuilding, so I am thinking I should do that sometimes? Or not?
Could it be also that I am searching a lot of data (Terabytes)?
Greeting and many THANKS for your help, if this continues to work it will save me much time.
Re: Results show a valid path, not a path that does not exist
Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2023 9:13 am
by void
Generally, no.
You shouldn't need to perform a manual reindex.
Everything 1.4 doesn't track changes to hard links. (Everything 1.5 will)
Everything doesn't detect deleted hard links.
It can sometimes help to force a rebuild to detect these changes.
Excluded files/folders are not automatically reindexed when the should be included.
If you have enabled any exclude filters under Tools -> Options -> Exclude, it can sometimes be necessary to force a rebuild to find files/folders that should be included.
Tracking changes to NTFS volumes will be slightly improved in
Everything 1.5.