whenever I launch the everything GUI I still see the scanning prompt before the application becomes available for search

[DarienAL]

Wondering if I'm just not understanding how the service version is supposed to work. I have a large folder structure that requires quite a bit of time to index upon the launch of the everything GUI and my thought was to enable the service so that the index would happen in the background so that whenever the GUI was launched the index would be up to date. I have a launched the service and I can see its running but whenever I launch the everything GUI I still see the scanning prompt before the application becomes available for searching. What step have I missed?

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Moved from Everything Service Help

The Everything service doesn't maintain your index.
The Everything GUI maintains your index.

The Everything Service simply allows Everything to index and monitor your NTFS volumes as a standard user.



Please keep the GUI running in the background for the best experience.
Enable Tools -> Options -> General -> Start Everything on system startup
Enable Tools -> Options -> UI -> Run in background.

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 (from the File menu, click Exit).
• Restart Everything.

Please make sure your system is shutting down gracefully.

If Everything is updating on startup for a long time:
Please make sure there's no stuck Windows updates.
Please make sure there's no software spamming your file system with changes.
Please try sorting results by date modified in Everything and monitoring file system changes.

[DarienAL]

Thanks after poking around in the settings a bit more I noticed that the C drive was part of the index. That wasn't actually needed so once I removed that and adjusted the other settings Everything is now working as expected, it takes a little bit to load/update the database but after that everything is good and search queries return his pretty quickly considering the huge amount of flat files I'm index. This is perfect, thank you!

[misterc]

Hi,

I see the same behaviour - but as a long time user of Everything, it hasn't always veen like this.
I'm using 1.5b. When I launch the application I see "Scanning drive C:" in the lower status bar, and the application is unresponsive until this completes. It doesn't scan any other drive despite me having C, D and E selected (as well as some network drives).

This behaviour seems recent. I haven't made any changes to the Everything config or settings, but have updated versions as they were released.

Debug below:

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Everything 1.5.0.1411b (x64)
OS: Windows NT 10.0 26200 (x64)
Admin: 0
Service: 1 (connected / installed and running)
Command line:
Binary: C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe
Profile: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Everything\Everything.ini
Database: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Everything\Everything.db
Instance:

Config:
shell_max_path=0
show_mouseover=0
check_for_updates_on_startup=1
language=1033
show_size_in_statusbar=0
auto_include_fixed_refs_volumes=1
auto_remove_offline_refs_volumes=1
auto_remove_offline_fat_volumes=1
auto_include_remote_volumes=1
open_many_files_warning_threshold=16
set_foreground_window_attach_thread_input=0
search_edit_drag_accept_files=0
full_row_select=0
paste_new_line_op=0
bookmark_remember_sort=1
bookmark_remember_view=1
bookmark_remember_filter=1
bookmark_remember_index=1
index_folder_size=0
db_update_thread_priority=-15
index_recent_changes=1
refs_file_id_extd_directory_info_buffer_size=0
monitor_thread_mode_background=1
filter=EVERYTHING
search_history_enabled=0
columns=[{"name":"Name","width":578},{"name":"Path","width":630},{"name":"Size","width":120},{"name":"Date Modified","width":191}]

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What is shown under Tools -> Debug -> Statistics -> Build -> Last Rebuild Reason ?

[misterc]

Annoyingly (well, perhaps not) it doesn't seem to do it now.

Yesterday I played around with the settings a bit - the only thing I can remember changing is that I had my network drives listed under 'folders' and removed these and instead enabled them under the 'network drives' option.

I'll report back if I can reproduce the issue or it comes back.