Can one somehow make annotation to the drives?

[Biff]

Can one somehow make annotation to the drives, e.g. IDs, sizes, contents:


And, why is E: added three times (instead of the actual drive letter of the drives used by all of the other programs and displayed)? I assume these are the same models, makes of drives (WD Elements) with the wrong letters. They have a different ID each. How could I correct that, respectively correct it without plugging in all of thoses drives? In the search (results) the letters obviously are shown correctly.

[void]

I have on my TODO list to keep the volume label for each volume.

I like the idea of being able to set a custom label or comment for each drive.

Thanks for the suggestion.

[Biff]

No, no, I have to say thank you for the greatest program.

And, why is E: added three times (instead of the actual drive letter of the drives used by all of the other programs and displayed)? I assume these are the same models, makes of drives (WD Elements) with the wrong letters. They have a different ID each. How could I correct that, respectively correct it without plugging in all of thoses drives? In the search (results) the letters obviously are shown correctly.

[void]

All these volumes are offline.

Each entry refers to a unique volume GUID.
If the drive letter changes the old entry should automatically be removed.

There are multiple E: drives, one for each unique volume, most likely one for each USB thumb drive.

To remove offline NTFS volumes:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the NTFS tab on the left.
• Select a volume to remove.
• Click Remove (Note: only offline volumes can be removed).
• Click OK.

To automatically remove offline NTFS volumes:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the NTFS tab on the left.
• Check Automatically remove offline volumes.
• Click OK.

[Biff]

Many thanks.

If the drive letter changes the old entry should automatically be removed.

Alright, but obviously it isn't.

auto_remove_moved_ntfs_volumes

Set to 1 to enable.

Set to 0 to disable.

Automatically remove old NTFS volumes that have moved to a new drive letter.

It is enabled, if I see it right, I left the default settings:

There are multiple E: drives, one for each unique volume, most likely one for each USB thumb drive.

Yes, but I do have only one single E: drive. I havve diffent WD Elements, USB 3.0 drives, from 3 to 5 TB. I have assigned new drive letters to 2 or 3 of them some weeks or so ago, I assume. May be that is the cause.

When I exclude one or two of the E: drives obviously all of the E: drives get excluded, there is no item (folder, file) shown in the search result:


I would like to keep the single E: drive existing and remove the ones not existing (anymore), what is the best way to do it without losing the index for the existing E: drive?

I have enabled all of the E: drives now, but it is not shown anymore in the search result, how could I get it back?

I use a second Everything located in another folder, started with a .lnk:
"C:\Lw C\Programme\Everything\Everything.exe" -instance "Fi"

All its indexes are gone (no item shown in the search results), but still be shown in the index tab, without the one of the drive just plugged in and another one, what might be the reason for it:

[void]

You can use the File System Index (fsi:) search function to find the matching E: drive.

The fsi function limits the search to the matching file system index.

For example: fsi:0 will list results for the first file system index, fsi:1 for the second and so on..

Through trial and error, search for fsi:x, where x matches your E: drives. fsi: uses the same order in the NTFS volumes list.
So if fsi:5, fsi:6 and fsi:7 is e:\, and fsi:6 is the index you wish to keep, remove the first offline E: drive and last offline E: drive.

[Biff]

Thank you very much!

fsi:1 to fsi:3 does not show anything. fsi:0 is C:. fsi:4 is F:. So I guess, according to the order in the indexes tab, E: is completely gone / removed. How could that happen? How could I avoid it a next time?


I use a second Everything located in another folder, started with a .lnk:
"C:\Lw C\Programme\Everything\Everything.exe" -instance "Fi"

All its indexes are gone (no item shown in the search results), but still be shown in the index tab, without the one of the drive atual plugged in and another one, what might be the reason for it:

[65Cobra427SC]

I have on my TODO list to keep the volume label for each volume.

I like the idea of being able to set a custom label or comment for each drive.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Just ran across this thread. With over 10 pairs of external drives that share two drive bays, a custom label would mean "Everything" to me

[Biff]

I have on my TODO list to keep the volume label for each volume.

I like the idea of being able to set a custom label or comment for each drive.

And may be add to that label the amount of files on that drive / free and used space of the drive?

[YuriIT_28]

++Volume Labels (and possibly GUIDs)
That would be awsome:)

Thanks