What do these journals do and why would I decrease/increase them? What would be the affects if I did?
The
Index Journal is a log of all changes to your index.
It can be useful for tracking changes to your file systems.
The maximum size controls how many changes Everything will keep in the journal log.
You can view the Journal log from the Index menu and clicking on Index Journal.
The default is 1MB which holds about 5000 file changes.
Increase the maximum journal size if you would like Everything to remember more changes at the cost of more RAM usage.
Fast X sort I assume adds an index for that column to improve sorting/searching speed but increases the database size. Is the speed improvement of sorting/searching on these columns worth the overhead of making the database size larger? (eg would it decrease performance of other items
Enabling fast sort will build and maintain separate indexes for each property.
The initial build and sort can take a few seconds.
Maintaining these indexes is very efficient.
There shouldn't be any noticeable performance different once the initial index is built.
Each fast sort index will require about 8MB per 1 million files.
Just enable what you need.
When/why would I change the USN journal size?
The USN Journal contains file system changes to your volume.
The USN Journal is maintained by your NTFS driver (not Everything).
The USN Journal takes up physical space on your drive.
You shouldn't ever need to change the USN Journal maximum size.
32768 KB will store about a days worth of changes on Windows 10+
When you start Everything, your index will be updated from the USN Journal.
If you have not run Everything for a day, Everything will be unable to update its existing index from the USN Journal.
Everything will automatically perform a reindex as the earlier USN Journal entries would have been overwritten.
I recommend a maximum size of 131072 KB for Windows 10+
Leave Allocation delta as: 4096 KB - 8192 KB
The default maximum size is typically: 32768 KB
The default allocation delta is typically: 4096 KB
You can access the USN Journal with the
recent changes database in Everything.
3rd question. I have some folders that are modified very regularly and I don't need to see those changes reflected in search immediately. Eg temporary folders or source code build directories. Is there a way to tell everything that I don't really care about these folders and to index them slowly (and hence improve performance of everything else)?
Everything 1.5 will have an option to pause the index from Index -> Pause Updates.
PAUSED is shown in the status bar when indexing is paused.
Is Everything slowing your system when many file system changes are made?
Please check out the
ntfs_update_thread_mode_background ini setting.
When enabled, Everything will only update your index when there is no disk IO.
To enable ntfs_update_thread_mode_background:
- Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
/ntfs_update_thread_mode_background=1
- Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
- If successful, ntfs_update_thread_mode_background=1 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.
Just be aware if there is constant disk IO, Everything may never update.
4th question. I want to remove the following folder from the index as it always shows up first instead of the actual file I want. How do I permamently exclude a folder from the index?
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent
To exclude C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent from your "Everything" index:
- In "Everything", from the Tools menu, click Options.
- Click the Exclude tab
- Click Add Folder....
- Select the %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent folder and click OK.
- Click OK.
Excluding files/folders