Offline volumes cause unresponsiveness
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2019 10:27 am
This bug concerns Version 1.4.1.935 (x86), and didn't seem to be present in versions 1.3.x.
From time to time Everything is unresponsive: I call its window from the system tray, but the window takes about 60+ to seconds to appear.
To investigate the problem I run Everything in debug mode. The cause seems to be this: I have two drive letters (Y:, Z:) that refer to external network locations ("\\location\etc"). They are only accessible for a limited part of the day. The delay happens whenever Everything inquires Windows about those drives:
To try to solve this, I UNchecked "Automatically include new fixed volumes" and "Automatically include new removable volumes", and checked "Automatically remove offline volumes" from the Indexes/NTFS and Indexes/ReFS options. Note also that I UNchecked the option "search and index existing volumes" (or similar) at install time.
Unfortunately this didn't solve the problem.
I then also added Y: and Z: to the excluded list. But the delay still appears.
Is it possible to solve this situation somehow, and tell Everything to inquire Windows ONLY about the volumes listed in the Index/NTFS options?
Everything is an amazing program! I use it constantly during the day. Cheers!
From time to time Everything is unresponsive: I call its window from the system tray, but the window takes about 60+ to seconds to appear.
To investigate the problem I run Everything in debug mode. The cause seems to be this: I have two drive letters (Y:, Z:) that refer to external network locations ("\\location\etc"). They are only accessible for a limited part of the day. The delay happens whenever Everything inquires Windows about those drives:
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QueryDosDevice Y: \Device\LanmanRedirector\;Y:[...]
Y:\ GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint FAILED 87
QueryDosDevice Z: \Device\LanmanRedirector\;Z:[...]
Z:\ GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint FAILED 87
ntfs volume create list 0.040916 seconds
Unfortunately this didn't solve the problem.
I then also added Y: and Z: to the excluded list. But the delay still appears.
Is it possible to solve this situation somehow, and tell Everything to inquire Windows ONLY about the volumes listed in the Index/NTFS options?
Everything is an amazing program! I use it constantly during the day. Cheers!