Crashed drive folder structure view

[tziprian]

Hello i need to see a contents of an crashed drive. I don't remember exactly what was there and if deserves to try an recovery. is there an way to see contents of dead drive that yesterday was working? Thanks

[void]

I am sorry to hear about your crashed drive.

Please make a backup of your Everything.db under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Everything

Please try db2efu to recover your filenames.



If the filenames are shown in Everything, please export your filenames from File -> Export.

[tziprian]

Thank you for response,

I make this but the drive e:\ is not showing, it seems to be deleted also from Everything database if not showed in My computer? Not should be an delay until refresh the removed drive? I miss something on search?

[void]

Everything automatically removes offline volumes.

Unfortunately, if you don't have a backup of your Everything.db, your filenames are lost.

[tziprian]

Is there a way to keep removed drives in history for a number of days, in settings? For future "accidents"

[therube]

#1, back up your .db file.
Making various periodic backups can't hurt.

#2, Tools | Options | Indexes | NTFS -> Automatically remove offline volumes (uncheck).
(Similar with FAT / ReFS.)


(You can also load old .db into Everything, I believe using the -read-only switch.)