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Keep offline volumes in the index.
Everything should only index once.
Everything will perform a quick reindex if you add or remove a volume from your index.
When does it happen?
When you start Everything for the first time.
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When you add or remove a volume from your index.
In which case then how can there be such a thing as "keep offline volumes in index"?
When reindexing, Everything will keep an old copy of your index.
The filenames from your offline volume are gathered from your old index.
Once the new index is created the old index is destroyed.
Is "rebuild index" the same thing as monitoring internal hard drive for changes and updating?
No.
Rebuild index is creating a full and fresh scan of your volumes. (expensive)
Monitor changes watches your file system for changes and updates your existing indexes. (inexpensive)
Do I ever have to rebuild the index?
Generally, no.
You will need to rebuild if you:
delete hardlinks
add hardlinks in Everything 1.4 or earlier.
After running a check disk that made a change to your volume.
Everything will automatically reindex if:
a lot of changes were made to your file system while Everything was not running.
An NTFS USN Journal is deleted or re-created.
Your Everything.db was missing or corrupt.
How do I know if it's happening?
Everything will show reindexing or scanning in the status bar at the bottom left.
Is there a way to stop it?
Once started, a reindex cannot be stopped.
Is Everything missing files or still showing deleted files?
-Please make sure Everything is installed correctly:
- In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
- Click the General tab on the left.
- Check Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything.
- Uncheck Run as administrator.
- Check Everything Service. (Please make sure this is tick-checked and not square-checked)
- Click OK.
- Exit Everything (right click the Everything tray icon and click Exit).
- Restart Everything.
Is Everything reindexing often?
-Please make sure Everything is installed correctly:
- In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
- Click the General tab on the left.
- Check Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything.
- Click OK.
-Please try disabling automatically include new volumes and automatically remove offline volumes:
- In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
- Click the NTFS tab on the left.
- Uncheck Automatically include new fixed volumes.
- Uncheck Automatically include new removable volumes.
- Uncheck Automatically remove offline volumes.
- Click OK.
-Please try increasing your USN Journal size to at least 131072 KB:
- In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
- Click the NTFS tab on the left.
- For each NTFS volume:
- Set Maximum size to: 131072 KB
- Click OK.
-Please make sure Windows is shutting down gracefully. (bluescreens will cause Everything to lose recent changes to your file systems)
-Please make sure Everything is shutting down gracefully on system shutdown. (don't terminate Everything on shutdown)
-Please make sure there's no pending Windows updates that are stuck. (stuck updates can make millions of file changes triggering a reindex)
-Please try storing your Everything database on another drive (Tools -> Options -> Indexes -> Database location)