Date Accessed Change Detection
Deleted Hardlink Detection
Files moved from excluded folders remain excluded
Date Accessed Change Detection
Everything doesn't update date accessed changes in real-time.
This is a limitation with Everything and the NTFS USN Journal.
There's no USN Journal event when the date accessed is updated.
Everything will update the date accessed when the file is modified or renamed.
To refresh date accessed information:
- In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
- Click the Indexes tab on the left.
- Click Force Rebuild.
- Click OK.
Deleted Hardlink Detection
Everything doesn't detect deleted hard links.
This is a limitation with Everything and the NTFS USN Journal.
Everything doesn't store file IDs, so cannot remove files/folders by ID.
The filename stored in the USN Journal for deleted hard links is not reliable.
To remove deleted hard links from your index:
- In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
- Click the Indexes tab on the left.
- Click Force Rebuild.
- Click OK.
Files moved from excluded folders remain excluded
When a folder is excluded by an exclude filter under Tools -> Options -> Exclude, Everything does not monitor changes within that folder.
For example, if $recycle.bin is excluded:
- You delete a file, moving it to the Recycle Bin.
- Everything removes the file from the index because it is now in an excluded folder.
- You restore the file from the Recycle Bin.
- Everything does not see the file being moved out of the excluded folder, so the file remains missing from the index.
- In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
- Click the Indexes tab on the left.
- Click Force Rebuild.
- Click OK.
Everything will track changes to result omissions.