Suggestions / Fixes

[zilog256]

First of all, I must say "Everything" changed my way of using my PC in everyday's life and greatly enhanced my productivity

Some of the suggestions that follow have already been discussed on topics here.

Background : my main PC has an SSD for system and SEVEN HDDs ranging from 2Tb to 4 Tb....I also have 2 backup external e-SATA enclosures, each one holding 4 drives (same thing, sizes ranging from 2Tb to 4Tb)

1) ENHANCEMENT / FIX : the rescanning of ALL drives each time a drive is connected is really a PAIN. Plugging a 16 Gb USB stick for instance leads to the rescanning of my 7 internal drives + 4 or 8 external HDDs. (suggestion already seen on the forum)

I could disable automatic scanning in everything, but in that case, some of my fixed drives won't be scanned. Why? Because some of them are seen as "removable drives", depending on the controller they're plugged on. So "disable automatic scanning of removable drives"+"use force rebuild" when needed is not an option


2) ENHANCEMENT : the use of a "database per disk" instead of one whole big database could help, but that would certainly mean lots of work on the internal mechanics of the program. (suggestion already seen on the forum)

3) ENHANCEMENT / OPTION : Multithreaded scanning : after I stupidly dared to plug some random USB stick, resulting in a "punishment rescan of all drives", it occured to me that Everything scans the drives ONE BY ONE. In my case (Core i5, plenty of RAM, multiple disks, each with only one partition per drive), a parallel rescan of all disks would be no problem. I think it would be a nice option. The only trick is for Everything to be aware if a physical disk holds multiple partitions, then it should obviously not run a multithreaded scan on it...unless it's a SSD....

4) FEATURE : A pull-down menu on the main window with all disks/partitions (and possibly their names) that could be checked/unchecked to be included on the search. Sometimes I want to run a search on a particular set of disks and not others (backup discs, source files etc), I guess I'm not the only one.

5) FEATURE/OPTION : Scanning of OFFLINE VOLUMES. Could be nice to keep track of offline volumes, but that's almost off-topic for the tool. You decide

6) BUGFIX : Sometimes Everything just "loses" its database : usually it's after the (clean) unplugging of an external drive = I'm stuck with an Everything that finds nothing The only solution is a "Force rebuild". I'm sorry I don't have more specific debugging info.

7) FEATURE/OPTION : a "Force Rebuild" button : in the main interface, would be handy (suggestion already seen on the forum)


In fact, the most urgent thing for everyone IMHO is the 1st suggestion

Thanks again for this excellent program.

[void]

Thanks for the suggestions.

1) ENHANCEMENT / FIX : the rescanning of ALL drives each time a drive is connected is really a PAIN. Plugging a 16 Gb USB stick for instance leads to the rescanning of my 7 internal drives + 4 or 8 external HDDs. (suggestion already seen on the forum)
2) ENHANCEMENT : the use of a "database per disk" instead of one whole big database

In the next release of Everything you will be able to add, remove or update a single index without the full rebuild.
For now, please enable keep offline volumes.

3) ENHANCEMENT / OPTION : Multithreaded scanning

I will look into an option to do this, this can actually make indexing slower if there are multiple volumes on the same device.

4) FEATURE : A pull-down menu on the main window with all disks/partitions (and possibly their names) that could be checked/unchecked to be included on the search

A locations bar is on my TODO list, for now, please use custom filters.

5) FEATURE/OPTION : Scanning of OFFLINE VOLUMES

Use folder indexing or filelists.
Enable keep offline volumes for offline NTFS volume support.
There will be better support for this in the next release of Everything.

6) BUGFIX : Sometimes Everything just "loses" its database

If Everything encounters an error while building the index, it will abort creation of the index and give you an empty result list.
Everything currently hates external drives, I will have better support in the next release.

7) FEATURE/OPTION : a "Force Rebuild" button : in the main interface, would be handy (suggestion already seen on the forum)

Tools -> Options -> Indexes -> Force Rebuild.

[zilog256]

Thanks for the quick answer.

1) ENHANCEMENT / FIX : the rescanning of ALL drives each time a drive is connected is really a PAIN. Plugging a 16 Gb USB stick for instance leads to the rescanning of my 7 internal drives + 4 or 8 external HDDs. (suggestion already seen on the forum)
2) ENHANCEMENT : the use of a "database per disk" instead of one whole big database

In the next release of Everything you will be able to add, remove or update a single index without the full rebuild.
For now, please enable keep offline volumes.

Thanks for the tip! I had looked in all the available interface options but hadn't see the configfile fix. Will try this one definitely!

3) ENHANCEMENT / OPTION : Multithreaded scanning

I will look into an option to do this, this can actually make indexing slower if there are multiple volumes on the same device.

Yes, unless you take care of differentiating SSDs that don't care about concurrent I/O loads and HDDs that would suffer greatly from it.

I'm aware that's extra work involved and that not everyone might need it but it seems like a powerful feature

4) FEATURE : A pull-down menu on the main window with all disks/partitions (and possibly their names) that could be checked/unchecked to be included on the search

A locations bar is on my TODO list, for now, please use custom filters.

Perfect, thanks!

5) FEATURE/OPTION : Scanning of OFFLINE VOLUMES

Use folder indexing or filelists.
Enable keep offline volumes for offline NTFS volume support.
There will be better support for this in the next release of Everything.

Perfect, thanks once again.

6) BUGFIX : Sometimes Everything just "loses" its database

If Everything encounters an error while building the index, it will abort creation of the index and give you an empty result list.
Everything currently hates external drives, I will have better support in the next release.

OK

7) FEATURE/OPTION : a "Force Rebuild" button : in the main interface, would be handy (suggestion already seen on the forum)

Tools -> Options -> Indexes -> Force Rebuild.

Yes, but I was meaning a button on the main window, easier to click than going into submenus. But it's really not a vital function I'll admit as much