How to get updated File Lists recognized and Indexed?

[alittleofeverything]

I am new to Everything, but am really liking what I'm seeing thus far. The implementation of network folder support is enabling me to finally move on to something more current than Locate32 (which has served me well for years). I need a little help with a few items though... Below is my setup.

• I have two computers and a NAS (Networked Attached Storage) device. I'll call these Local_PC, Remote_PC, and Local_NAS.
• I have installed Everything on Local_PC and Remote_PC.
• Everything on Local_PC is set to only index several shares on Local_NAS (via adding Folder UNC paths, eg, \\Local_NAS\share_name).
• Everything on Remote_PC has several File Lists added (each File List corresponds to a share on Local_NAS) via Indexes->File Lists. There are no Folders or Drives being Indexed on Remote_PC (as I want Everything to just use the data for Local_NAS files). Remote_PC has access to the files on Local_NAS via a VPN, but I of course don't want to have Remote_PC index Local_NAS via the VPN as that would be slow, inefficient, etc. Thus my reasons for creating File Lists on Local_PC and sending those to Remote_PC.
• I understand how to create File Lists via command line, and that is working fine. And I can take care of transferring the File Lists to Remote_PC (so that they are accessible to Everything on Remote_PC).

Now for my questions:
1) How do I get Everything on Remote_PC to recognize that the File List has changed? I had hoped that simply by the File List being updated that Everything would then use the new data, but that does not seem to happen. I have tried completely exiting and restarting Everything, but when I perform a test search Everything still does not see the new data in the File List (I'm guessing it is not rebuilding the Index?).

2) Does "Attempt to monitor changes" work for network folders (via UNC)? In my initial experience it seems it does not. This would not be a surprising limitation (or uncommon), but I just wanted to see if others have had better experience.

Thanks much in advance for any assistance!

[alittleofeverything]

For other's reference, here's what I tried (and what ended up working):

• Adding the EFU folder to Folders didn't work, even with manually telling the Folder to Update Now.
• Force Rebuild works, which apparently re-reads the File Lists.
• So I'm just going to use the following in a Scheduled Task ("-startup" is just to prevent the Everything window from opening):

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  "C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe" -reindex -startup

I guess I'm a bit surprised that this isn't built in to the File List mechanism--ie, I would think that adding a File List to "File Lists" would make Everything automatically notice when the added File List has changed, and thus would initiate a reindex/rebuild on its own. But apparently that is not the case?

Nonetheless, I'm glad to have gotten question (1) sorted out! And I'm still feeling very good about Everything--I think it is going to be a good fit for me.

[Robinson]

I am having a similar problem -- when the file-list is updated, I have to use "Force Rebuild" to recognize it.

One thing that used to work was instead of replacing the existing file-list, create a new one. I used append a date at the end of the file name when creating new one. Add that new file-list and Everything should recognize it right away. I can't try it right now, but it used to work.