Everything occasionally loses Office programs

[Emilio]

Every now and then, Everything (64-bit) loses Microsoft Office (Home and Student 2016 64-bit) programs

Normally, they are among my top programs, but for example, I don't see them here:


I don't see the desired results when I search for Word:


or more specifically, winword.exe:


I can only see the programs again if I force rebuild the index. Then they show up again in the list:



and I can search for the programs as well:



I have not been able to determine when this happens, or what's causing it. Is this a known issue/is there a fix? Thank you.

[NotNull]

It is not a known issue that Everything looses it's run count of files.

It looks like Everything has lost track of the existence of winword.exe.That could sporadically happen in older versions of Everything. A Force Rebuild should fix it (as you already found out ). Newer versions of Everything should have less issues with that.
Did the runcount for Winword.exe come back after the rebuild?


The run count is stored in "Run History.csv". You can open it in a text editor and check if winword.exe is still in there.
(location: %APPDATA%\Everything folder).


Extra suggestion:
You can manually change the run count of files by choosing Set Run Count... from the context menu of this file. Or these files; you can change the runcount of multiple files at once.

[Emilio]

Hi, thanks for your response!

I'm running the latest version of Everything, and the runcount does indeed come back for Excel, Word, and Powerpoint after a Force Rebuild. I should clarify though, that it's not the losing of the runcount that's my issue, it's that the entries seem to be lost entirely (e.g. when I try to search for them specifically).

The next time I notice this happens, I'll check to see if winword.exe is still in the "Run History.csv" file. Thanks for your help.

[void]

These missing Office files are hardlinks, the original file is usually in C:\Windows\Winsxs\...

While Everything indexes all hardlinks, it does not maintain them.

After an Office update these files will be removed from your Everything index and new hardlinks will not be added.

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.

Maintaining new hardlinks is in development.

Your run history should still be intact.
Forcing a rebuild should find the missing office files and your run counts should be preserved.

[Emilio]

That makes sense, thank you. I'll continue Force Rebuilding.