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I am using the following script -

src of index.cmd
which I use to index to an external usb drive, that is on f:. I want to exclude the above folders, but the options are not working. After I run this command I can see in perfmon there is disk access and indexing for the entire disk, and it takes a long time since there are a lot of small files, which is why I want to exclude them.

Does this work for you with the following command-line options?

Everything will recursively scan all folders.
Folders matching your exclude filter are not scanned.

Scanning a folder will find all child files/folders.
This is the slow part.

Setting a file filter will not help performance.
A file filter will simply exclude files from your EFU output, they are still scanned.

For the best performance, exclude as many folders as possible.



The following worked as expected for me: (dev, scrapbook and tmp folders were never scanned)

-no-db and -instance are ignored when using -create-file-list
-create-file-list does not create an Everything instance.

(Since we're here, I'll just babble... note...)

-create-file-list-* slashes are not ambidextrous, always .
Oh don't hold me (too much) to the above (see that 100001, don't know if it's just a typo or if I did enter 100001 [which would be wrong]). In any case, there are quirks here. In general, seems interim / are OK - except at the beginning of the final path part, but then are also OK if used as a final closing path part (/100000 vs /100000/ vs \100000/ ...).

So in this case, you ought to normalize slashes - to back slashes (sucks , heh).

void wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 5:56 am Everything will recursively scan all folders.
Folders matching your exclude filter are not scanned.

Scanning a folder will find all child files/folders.
This is the slow part.

Setting a file filter will not help performance.
A file filter will simply exclude files from your EFU output, they are still scanned.

For the best performance, exclude as many folders as possible.



The following worked as expected for me:

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set excludeFolders="dev;scrapbook;tmp"
set excludeFiles="*.tmp;thumbs.db;*.bak"

start everything64.exe -create-file-list external_drive.efu f:\ -create-file-list-exclude-files %excludeFiles% -create-file-list-exclude-folders %excludeFolders%

(dev, scrapbook and tmp folders were never scanned)

-no-db and -instance are ignored when using -create-file-list
-create-file-list does not create an Everything instance.

Thanks to everyone for the replies and sorry for my late reply here.

@void, isn't that the same command I have? When I run, I see those folders being scanned (read access in perfmon).
@NotNull, you suggest using '**\dev' or ''\**dev' ? isn't that a file glob pattern that will also match any folder with dev in its name or in any subfolder?

Also qn for @void, is the disk label now getting indexed and can I have a column for it? in Windows external drives can get mapped to same drive letter, so its hard to tell. I use your excellent app as a disk catalog and search too.

external drives can get mapped to same drive letter

Specifically set a drive letter to specific (external) drives.
And if set to a high enough letter (such that letter collisions aren't apt to occur), the drive letter will (essentially) be static.

(Alternatively, USBDLM - USB Drive Letter Manager for Windows.)

therube wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:42 pm

external drives can get mapped to same drive letter

Specifically set a drive letter to specific (external) drives.
And if set to a high enough letter (such that letter collisions aren't apt to occur), the drive letter will (essentially) be static.

(Alternatively, USBDLM - USB Drive Letter Manager for Windows.)

yes I've done this but a few of the drives are the same. that program you linked looks very useful, thanks. It amazes me how so much of this stuff is still not built into the OS.

Everything 1.5.0.1372a adds support for forward slashes (/) in -create-file-list-exclude-folders