No Search Results for Flash Drive on USB Port

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DavidERoss
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No Search Results for Flash Drive on USB Port

Post by DavidERoss »

Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64)
Everything 1.3.4.686 (x64)

I opened Computer and selected drive I, which is the USB port for a flash drive. I right-clicked and selected Search Everything from the pull-down context menu. I saw in the status bar at the bottom of the Everything window that drives C, D, and J (partitions of two internal hard drives on my PC) were searched along with drive I. The result was "0 objects".

I repeated the above but selected Agent Ransack from the pull-down context menu. Agent Ransack found 609 items: 135 folders and 474 files. (Agent Ransack is available from http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/.)

For this task, I would prefer to use Everything instead of Agent Ransack since Everything is faster. Also Agent Ransack is designed to search within files for specified strings, and I only wanted to see the dates of the most recent files on the flash drive. Why can Everything not find anything on my flash drive?
therube
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Re: No Search Results for Flash Drive on USB Port

Post by therube »

Is the drive NTFS formatted?
If so, check your settings in Options | Indexes -> NTFS.

If not, you will need to use something like the File List feature.
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