How to hide inactive HDD's in "Folders" window?

[dimitrius1000]

I connected couple friends HDD's and now I'm see them greyed with question mark in "Folders" window.
How I remove them from the list? Screenshot attached.

Thanks!

[void]

To automatically remove offline volumes:

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the NTFS tab on the left.
• Check Automatically remove offline volumes.
• Click OK.

To automatically remove offline FAT volumes:

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the FAT tab on the left.
• Check Automatically remove offline volumes.
• Click OK.

To remove any manually added offline folders:

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Folders tab on the left.
• For each offline folder:
  • Click Remove.
• Click OK.

[NoobYorkCity]

OK but is there a way to temporarily hide the indexes of offline drives without permanently deleting those indexes? Please forgive me if it's something really obvious and I'm just oblivious to it.

[void]

There's currently no option to hide offline volumes in the folder sidebar.

I have put on my TODO list to add such an option.
Thank you for the suggestion.

[NoobYorkCity]

Is there a way to backup and restore the indexes themselves?

Or export them into something like a CSV file?

[void]

File -> Export
Export as EFU or CSV.

[Herkules97]

Is there a way to backup and restore the indexes themselves?

Or export them into something like a CSV file?

There is no way to export specific indexes to return them later.
There are exports such as .efu file lists but they can lack data(or just date accessed) and aren't a part of the original db so you can't continue from them.
They are static, while the indexes you exported them from are dynamic.

You could copy the db itself, but then the parts that have been changed over time will be outdated if you ever run from backup.
I suppose the automatic rebuild would fix that right up.
The only way to keep things as-is is to..keep them as-is.

For excluding the offline HDDs, maybe there is a way to toggle hiding any results from those? Void would know.
This isn't it, but say /!fsi:6. From then on all searches will not contain that entry. Maybe to turn it on, just /fsi:6?

[void]

The Everything.db contains all indexes.
You can backup your Everything.db then load it later as read-only from File -> Open File List....
But there's no easy way to restore from an old Everything.db

For excluding the offline HDDs, maybe there is a way to toggle hiding any results from those? Void would know.
This isn't it, but say /!fsi:6. From then on all searches will not contain that entry. Maybe to turn it on, just /fsi:6?

Everything doesn't have the option to filter the folders sidebar by online status.
You can filter from the results window with:

!offline:

offline:

You can exclude individual volume indexes with !fsi:
But again, this will not hide from the folders sidebar.



Result omissions can be used to filter the folders sidebar.
However, it will only filter by filename, not online status.

[Herkules97]

Yeah I was sitting on the toilet and realised, filters might work for that
By setting a filter to hide fsi:6 for example then in Options - Home - Filters adding it so it always applies? I've never used that, but I think there have been posts in the past where it's claimed that's how it works.

But then now I read that post again and I look at the photo again and realise he is still asking for the sidebar.
So I guess what I said never had any relevancy.

One possibility is to not use the sidebar, that would hide them.
But this is coming from someone that has never used it.

The filter method above might work for text searches, I am not trying it so I don't know.

[void]

By setting a filter to hide fsi:6 for example then in Options - Home - Filters adding it so it always applies?

It will apply to the result list, but not the folders sidebar.