exclude external drives from indexing

[kumar]

How can I exclude and prevent external drives (USB Flash drive, external hard drives, etc.) from indexing? Can I preemptively specify to index only my C drive and nothing else?

[void]

To exclude new drives:

• 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.
• Click OK.

Please note that some removable NTFS volumes are reported as fixed.

To index only your C: drive:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the NTFS tab on the left.
• For each volume that is not your C: drive:
  • Click Remove (only available if the volume is offline) or uncheck Include in database.
• Click OK.

[kumar]

thanks for the reply.

I think this works after the fact i.e., after I connect the drive which is not helping because per your suggestion I removed the drive and unchecked include in journal (the drive letter was F) and afterwards this same external drive showed as G and everything started indexing again and when everything runs indexing (this is another issue), it slows my computer to a crawl.

There should be a way to somehow say don't index anything other than my C: drive, maybe preemptively specify all drive letters that I don't want to index even though the drive is not connected instead of waiting for the drive letter to show up in everything options to exclude it from indexing.

[therube]

Just some notes I made some time back.
I'd have to review just what I did (can't do that now), what my intentions were, but it should give you something to start with.

Note the the initial

:: everything -choose-volumes

is REM'd out.
And I don't think the intent here was to run the commands sequentially (in the same batch file), but to rather run (the above) command, first (& thinking it too would need the -instance switch), then (REM that out), then run the other...


go.bat:

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:: this sets 'auto include fixed volumes' to '0'
:: (to NOT include them - though, FOR *NEW* volumes only,
:: i.e., any NOT *already* enumerated in Everything.ini)

:: -choose-volumes, sets the pref, then exits, immediately
:: so any other actions specified are ignored

:: note that -choose-volumes does NOT tell Everything to
:: not SCAN "known" volumes (i.e. those already in E.ini)

::   everything -choose-volumes


:: if you then wanted to do more, /then/ you would have to
:: run everything with the additional parameters wanted


everything -instance NODB -read-only
pause
exit


::   everything -nodb -instance NODB -choose-volumes

:: NOTE that the -NODB option prevents read OR write
:: of the .DB, but that does NOT stop Everything
:: from the updating of its' (in memory) index

:: ONLY -READ-ONLY does that

:: ALSO, note that Everything stores its' .ini, .db,
:: ... relative to Everything.exe, so if you start
:: Everything.exe from a relative path, say:
:: ..\..\everything.exe, its associated .ini & .db
:: will be stored in ..\..\ - not in the (CWD)