Result sort order resets to "file name, ascending" on every new search

[theSuede]

Hi! Thanks for an awesome tool, I use it a lot!

Problem: After a Windows update (W11 22H2 feature update, the new Windows explorer with tabs) the search result keeps resetting to sort by name, ascending.
Previously, I've had it set on sort by date, newest first, and it stayed there. Now, as soon as I touch the query line it resets sort order to 'by name'
CTRL-F7 sets it back to sort by date with a quick-key, but that gets old pretty quick...

Options/general is set to:
store settings and data in %APPDATA%...
NOT running as admin
Do run as service

Have tried uninstalling, cleaning up, reinstalling - same behavior.

[NotNull]

For new searches, Everything will fall back to sorting by a property that is already indexed and pre-sorted (fast sort enabled)

First thing to check: Is the Date Modified information indexed?

• In the menu, go to Tools => Options => Indexes
• Enable Index date modified
• Enable Fast date modified sort
• Press the OK button

Second thing to check: What is your default sort method?

• In the menu, go to Tools => Options => General => Home
• Set the Sort field to either Use last value or Date Modified (Descending)
  USe last value will use the last used sort method for new searches (if fast sort is enabled for that method...)
• Press the OK button

Does Everything now behave as expected?

[theSuede]

Hi!

Checking 'Date Modified' in Tools => Options => Indexes did indeed fix the issue after the indexing had run an update scan. Thank you very much!

Does this add a lot (compared to having just file name indexed) of disk activity / database mem size? Strange that it worked before the Win update...

[raccoon]

Indexing the basic file attributes like date modified doesn't add anything to indexing time, since this data is already part of the NTFS MFT being read from. It just adds a few more megabytes to the database stored to ram and disk.

Fast Sort (pre sort) is almost always more beneficial, so you don't have to wait for sort to happen on demand when you click upon the column header. It usually takes place when your computer is started up (when Everything is started up).