Question about bandwith usage when indexing google drive

[stewartbourke487]

Using Everything to index google drive - works fine. My Google drive is mounded as a disk on my machine (G:)

I have a question about bandwidth and network resources.

Given that Everything is monitoring filesystem changes, is it only working on the local G: drive, or is it using any internet bandwidth or network resources when monitoring the drive?

Thank you

Stewart Bourke

[void]

Hard to say as Everything uses the Windows API call ReadDirectoryChangesW to monitor changes to your Google drive.

I would assume this drive is cached locally and the changes are event driven.
There should be minimal resource usage and minimal bandwidth usage.

Check the resource usage with the Windows Resource Monitor:
From the Start menu, search for:

resource

Click Resource Monitor
Click the Network tab and check network activity from Everything and the System.



ReadDirectoryChangesW can open many handles to folders.
These should eventually close.
Check your handle counts for the Everything.exe process in the Task Manager.

[stewartbourke487]

thank you - that helps me understand.

I'll check the resources as you suggest.