Search results disappear over and over

[dmw]

I have used Everything for 12 years now, today it started flashing the search results clear for up to a minute, and repeats sometimes in seconds. This is very frustrating when I am trying to scroll through the results.

I updated to 1.4.1.1015x64 today, but that didn't fix it. I don't know if I have a setting wrong. I checked Windows update but there wasn't a recent one (for a month).

Can you help???

Don Westergren

[NotNull]

Hard to tell what exactly is going on based on your description, but the following might be worth a try:

Maybe your system is very busy with something like an update, which causes massive amounts of file to be created or (re)moved.
And if you sorted by Date modified, Everything will keep updating your list. Typically Everything is fast enough to keep up, but who knows ..

Does it help if you sort the results by Result Count? (Menu:View > Sort By > Result Count)

[dmw]

Well, there is not an update going on, nor any update (windows or other) for at least a week. I just tried the suggestion to sort by count - that works the same way - still flashes the results to clear for up to a minute and sometimes reflashes in seconds.

I have tried a lot of settings in options but none have stopped this clearing of the everything display. I use Everything a lot and yesterday there was no problem, today it won't behave. I haven't made any changes nor loaded any programs in this time.

Don

[void]

A few guesses:

An icon shell extension?
Please try disabling icon shell extensions:

• In Everything, type in the following search and press ENTER:
  /icon_shell_extensions=0
• If successful, icon_shell_extensions=0 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.

To re-enable icon shell extensions:

• In Everything, type in the following search and press ENTER:
  /icon_shell_extensions=1
• If successful, icon_shell_extensions=1 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.

Corrupt database?
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.

Bad window size or column widths?
Please try auto sizing the window and column widths:

• In Everything, press Alt + 1

[void]

Everything might be taking too long to perform a query.
This can cause the result list to appear White.

Is Everything showing Querying... in the status bar?

Please make sure no search options are checked under the Search menu (eg: uncheck match case, uncheck match whole words, uncheck match path, uncheck regex)

How many files is Everything indexing? have you notice if Everything is suddenly indexing many more files than usual?
Is your CPU being throttled (over heating)

[dmw]

Stand by while I try these suggestions. This problem happens in the search has any number of found files: 3 or 100. When the results are shown, the note in the status bar shows the number of files found. When the display clears the note says "Indexing, then Sorting File Names"

Don

[void]

Indexing/Sorting filenames in the statusbar suggests something might be spamming your file system with changes.
This would cause the USN Journal to fill, the USN Journal ID to change and Everything to rebuild the index.

Please try showing the debug console and monitoring changes to your file systems:

• In Everything, type in the following search and press ENTER:
  /debug

Look for the following lines in Cyan color:
USN <action> <filename>

Is the debug console constantly displaying new USN messages?
Is it the same filename for most USN messages?

[dmw]

OK, I tried all the above suggestions, but my Search display still flashes clear over and over. I do get a lot of USN notes but none say "Action" with the USN lines, they do say RENAME or DATA or CREATE but they are not the same after those names. The "Force a Rebuild didn't stop the clearing.

Don

[void]

Thanks for trying the suggestions.

Could you please send me some debug logs capturing the flashing:

• In Everything, type in the following search and press ENTER:
  /debug_log
• Try to produce the flashing (if possible)
• In Everything, type in the following search and press ENTER:
  /restart
• Please send your %TEMP%\Everything Debug Log.txt to support@voidtools.com

[dmw]

well, /debug and /restart show zero files for results.

I recently updated Everything from 1.4.1.969x64 to 1.4.1.1015x64. I think the clearing of results started after that update. I will try going back to the earlier version.
Don

[void]

well, /debug and /restart show zero files for results.

It should be:
/debug_log

These are special search commands.
You will need to press ENTER to execute them.
The number of results in the statusbar will show 0.


Please let me know if 969 helps or not.

[dmw]

OK, I think the earlier version is working properly - no clearing in over 10 minutes.

I am using Everything-1.4.1.969x64-US-Setup.exe which is 810 KB.

The version that clears the display over and over is Everything-1.4.1.1015x64-Setup.exe and it is 1,764 KB. This is over twice the size of the version that works. So it appears that the latest version has a problem built into it.

I will continue to use version 969.

Thanks, Don

[void]

Everything-1.4.1.1015x64-Setup.exe and it is 1,764 KB

That is the multilingual version.

Everything-1.4.1.1015.x64.en-US-Setup.exe is only 812 KB.




Everything-1.4.1.1015 might be incorrectly detecting one of your NTFS volumes as online/mounted.
Are you using any software that is mounting a NTFS volume? (eg: Encryption software)

[dmw]

I checked Disk Management, all my drives are NTFS, none are mounted as far as I know - they are all drives, but two are USB 4tb drives that I use for backups. None are encrypted.

I just downloaded and installed Everything-1.4.1.1015x64.en-US-Setup.exe with size = 812 KB, it is stable, no clearing after 10 minutes now.

So my computer with 8 NTFS drives does not like multiple languages. I am glad to get the latest version to work properly - Thanks.

Don