Changes are not displayed immediately

[Matthew]

Everything application on Windows.

When using Everything on an SMB resource from Windows, the application works as expected. When a file is renamed, the change is immediately displayed in the search results.
Unfortunately, when working on SMB that is hosted on Linux, the immediate detection of file changes does not work. A rescan is required to make the search results show the file with the new name.
Is this a bug or expected behavior?

[void]

Everything uses ReadDirectoryChangesW to monitor changes to SMB shares.

If ReadDirectoryChangesW is not implemented by the host then Everything will be unable to see remote changes.



Everything 1.5 will have the option to use SHChangeNotifyRegister instead of ReadDirectoryChangesW.

To force Everything to use SHChangeNotifyRegister:

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Advanced tab on the left.
• To the right of Show settings containing, search for:
  dir
• Select: read_directory_changes
• Set the value to: false
• Click OK.

SHChangeNotifyRegister will only detect local changes made to SMB shares.
SHChangeNotifyRegister will not detect remote changes.

[Matthew]

It worked, thank you.