Are some files ignored/excluded by default?

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antares
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Are some files ignored/excluded by default?

Post by antares »

I've noticed that my mostly default installation of Everything doesn't show all files. I was looking for outlook.hol holidays file, but Everything didn't display it, making me think it doesn't exist on my computer.
I don't use any exclude list. Are there exclusions by default?
void
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Re: Are some files ignored/excluded by default?

Post by void »

Everything should index all your files by default.

Please make sure no search options are checked under the Search menu (eg: uncheck match case, uncheck match whole words, uncheck regex)

Please make sure the Everything filter is active under the Search menu.

Please make sure Everything is installed correctly and running as a standard user:
  • 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.
Please try forcing a rebuild:
  • In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
  • Click the Indexes tab on the left.
  • Click Force Rebuild.
  • Click OK.
antares
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Re: Are some files ignored/excluded by default?

Post by antares »

Thanks, it worked - found two files outlook.hol btw. The settings were correct / the same as you suggested. So I guess the index rebuild did it. Does it not get routinely rebuilt when running Everything as a service?
(When I didn't run it as a service on my old computer, it would get rebuilt every time I first started the program in current Windows session - judging by the wait time before anything was displayed in the main window.)
void
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Re: Are some files ignored/excluded by default?

Post by void »

It is possible this file is a hard link.

Everything 1.4 doesn't monitor changes to hard links.
new hard links and changes to existing hard links will be tracked in the next major update.

The Everything Service simply allows the Everything Search client to have low level read access to your NTFS volumes.
It is the Everything Search client that maintains your index.

Everything normally only indexes once.
If you make many changes to your system while Everything is not running, Everything may perform a fresh reindex the next time it is started.
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