Failing to find files v1.4.1.1005 (Windows 11?)

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HerbM
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Failing to find files v1.4.1.1005 (Windows 11?)

Post by HerbM »

Version 1.4.1.1005 is failing to find some files. (A lot but certainly not the majority).

Running on Windows 11 which MIGHT be part of the problem.

I have been running Everything happily for a couple, years, using es.exe almost exclusively with great results.

Everything running as a service. (Get-Service Everything) Tried restarting service, didn't help.

Stopping both service AND everything, then restarting seems to have fixed it, at least for this file (even though system was rebooted this morning) -- reporting anyway in case problem returns.

Haven't changed any Everything settings in a long time (months at least.)

Recently, not sure when, probably a week or so ago (Aug 1 2021 or earlier?) I started noticing some files being omitted from results with simple queries.

I can't (yet) say if it is new files or something where the database is stale etc.

Obviously running on Windows 11 since the Dev Beta release, 6+ weeks ago, could conceivably be involved.
Flight 132 but it was definitely happening on flight .120 also. Build 22000.132

Any ideas where to start for testing and getting you a good bug report?

The following is a simple example shows such an inconsistency:

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# Everything is running and show similar results as ES:

> dir utility-Log.txt  # file exists in current directory:

    Directory: C:\Users\Herb\Documents\WindowsPowerShell

Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
-a---           9/11/2020  4:54 PM        1067427 utility-Log.txt

es utility-Log.txt  # Shows nothing
es *utility*log*      # Shows nothing
es                        # shows lots of files (as expected)
es C:\Users\Herb\Documents\WindowsPowerShell utility-Log.txt  # Nothing, used to work
es C:\ utility-Log.txt # shows nothing, used to work

Obviously if this was a general problem you would know about it already.

This almost certainly must be something peculiar to my system or settings.
void
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Re: Failing to find files v1.4.1.1005 (Windows 11?)

Post by void »

Thank you for the bug report HerbM,

I am testing Everything 1.4 and 1.5a on Windows 11 x64 Insider.

If the issue occurs again, could you please check to see if the Everything Service is still running:
  • In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
  • Click the General tab on the left.
  • Is Everything Service tick-checked or square-checked?
Everything 1.4 does not track changes hard to links.
Everything 1.5 alpha does track changes to all hard links.
Neither track deleted hard links.

Can you give a rough example of a filename that is missing from Everything? (eg: is it a user file or an OS file?)

Are you excluding any files under Tools -> Options -> Exclude?

debug logging can help find the issue.
All USN journal events are logged to Everything Debug Log.txt.
If you enable debug logging and notice a recent file missing, could you please send you debug logs to support@voidtools.com with the missing filename.


To force Everything to reindex your missing files:
  • In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
  • Click the Indexes tab on the left.
  • Click Force Rebuild.
  • Click OK.
HerbM
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Re: Failing to find files v1.4.1.1005 (Windows 11?)

Post by HerbM »

Sorry for delay.

I have been distracted by other issues, but I'm still tracking this and will follow up if it can be shown to occur.

Service is "check marked" (tick) checked in Options->General
User files for certain. Txt files, pdf files. Specific names mentioned in original report above but I first noticed it on PDF files probably since I work with them the most.

Exclude list was CHECKED but nothing appeared in the actual list. (I have now cleared that.)

If it happens again, I will try the debug logging, and the index rebuild.

Also thx for the method to rebuild indexes.
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