MANY files NOT showing up in Everything since "update"

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Alduin's Khajiit
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MANY files NOT showing up in Everything since "update"

Post by Alduin's Khajiit »

Ever since I "updated" Everything, there are thousands upon thousands of files that do not show up in Everything! I search Everything on my external hard drive full of pictures and Everything only shows 286 files where there are at least 10,000 or greater.

This has done this since the latest update recently
void
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Re: MANY files NOT showing up in Everything since "update"

Post by void »

Please uncheck any search options from the Search menu.
Please make sure the Everything filter is selected from the Search menu.

Please try forcing a rebuild:
  • In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
  • Click the Indexes tab on the left.
  • Click Force Rebuild.
  • Click OK.
Please make sure you are not excluding hidden files, system files or have any exclude folders or exclude filters that may be excluding these results:
  • In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
  • Click the Exclude tab on the left.
  • Uncheck Exclude hidden files.
  • Uncheck Exclude system files.
  • Uncheck Enable exclude list.
  • Click OK.
Please make sure you are not including only folders with your NTFS indexes:
  • In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
  • Click the NTFS tab on the left.
  • Please delete anything in Include only.
  • Click OK.
Please backup anything important and check your external drive for errors:
  • Open Windows Explorer.
  • Right click your external drive with missing folders and click Properties.
  • Click the Tools tab.
  • Click Check Now....
  • Check Automatically fix file system errors.
  • Click Start (a restart might be required).
leuce
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Re: MANY files NOT showing up in Everything since "update"

Post by leuce »

void wrote:Please make sure you are not including only folders with your NTFS indexes:
  • In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
  • Click the NTFS tab on the left.
  • Please delete anything in Include only.
  • Click OK.
I had a similar problem since yesterday. Some drives were not searched at all, while in other drives, only a few files were found, and when a file was found, it was displayed hundreds of times over and over as if it was several files. But it's now sorted.

In Tools > Options > NTFS, I selected each drive and then unticked "Include" and pressed Apply each time (and each time waiting for it to finish processing), and then I selected each drive again and ticked "Include" again and pressed Apply each time. There was nothing in the "Include only" field.
f8pc
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Re: MANY files NOT showing up in Everything since "update"

Post by f8pc »

I was missing a lot of files in my results as well and leuce's suggestion worked for me:

In Tools > Options > NTFS, I selected my C: drive and then unticked "Include" and pressed Apply and then selected the C: drive again and ticked "Include" again and hit apply. Magically it worked. I had tried re-building before but it seems this method is a little different.
IanWorthington
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Re: MANY files NOT showing up in Everything since "update"

Post by IanWorthington »

f8pc wrote: Thu Jun 06, 2019 6:47 pm I was missing a lot of files in my results as well and leuce's suggestion worked for me:

In Tools > Options > NTFS, I selected my C: drive and then unticked "Include" and pressed Apply and then selected the C: drive again and ticked "Include" again and hit apply. Magically it worked. I had tried re-building before but it seems this method is a little different.
Ditto. Everything on D: went awol. This was the only thing that fixed it. Thanks guys.
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