Everything holds up Windows shutdown

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Everything holds up Windows shutdown

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When I try to shut down my laptop (Surface Book 2 with Windows 10) Everything holds up the shutdown because it takes so long to close. I often have to stop it manually before I can shut down. Is this a common behavior?
void
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Re: Everything holds up Windows shutdown

Post by void »

On system shutdown, Everything will save your settings to disk and save your index to disk.
This should take less than a second, depending on how many files you index.

How many files is Everything indexing? -When the search is blank, how many files are shown in the results?

Everything will process any file system changes before saving you index to disk.
This may take a very long time.

Are you making many changes to your file system?

Please make sure you are not using the compress database option:
  • In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
  • Click the Index tab on the left.
  • Uncheck Compress database.
    -While this setting will make the database smaller on disk, it will take a very long time to compress the database. I recommend leaving this setting unchecked.
  • Click OK.
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.
If the issue persists, could you please send some debug output?

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

This will put Everything in debug mode and log debug messages to %TEMP%\Everything Debug Log.txt
Shutdown your PC.
Restart your PC.
What is shown in your %TEMP%\Everything Debug Log.txt ?
fffffffffffffffff
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Re: Everything holds up Windows shutdown

Post by fffffffffffffffff »

I have changed the settings as instructed and will see how it goes. I had the database compression turned on so maybe that will help.

I have 32 million objects indexed :-(
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