FAT Drives keep reappearing

[sk2107]

Hi,

I have these 2 mapped Google drive which are automatically recognized as FAT and visible all the time for windows (10).
The thing that every short time (may be half an hour or so, not sure) Everything shows two copies of each, one of them is OFFLINE and each time I remove the offline volume it appears again in a short time.

I disabled "automatically Include new removable volumes" but did not change anything.

Main while I don't want to disable the option "Enable Automatically remove offline Volume" because I have few HDDs that I use their OFFLINE list.

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Regards

[void]

Are the volume names different? (shown when you double click the drives in this list)

[sk2107]

No. Each duplicate mapped drive letter has the same volume name in the list.

Regards

[void]

Thank you for the information.

Maybe the root is changing..
Could you please send your Help -> Troubleshooting Information to support@voidtools.com

[sk2107]

No. Each duplicate mapped drive letter has the same volume name in the list.

Regards

Hello,
I apologize for the confusion. It turns out that the volume names differ for the same path, even though they correspond to the same mapped location on my fixed hard drive. These are samples from my drives, all of which are linked to Google Drive.

\\?\Volume{9cb9813d-478e-11ee-81f7-dce9948b7f26} (T:) (Offline)
\\?\Volume{ef53cbdd-4976-11ee-81f8-dce9948b7f26} (T:)

\\?\Volume{9cb98140-478e-11ee-81f7-dce9948b7f26} (W:) (Offline)
\\?\Volume{ef53cbf5-4976-11ee-81f8-dce9948b7f26} (W:)

So how can I avoid this?

Best Regards

[void]

Windows and Everything will see these volumes as new.



There's not a lot Everything can do here.

There is an option to track volumes by serial number.
However, I don't recommend enabling this setting as it is common for volumes to have the same serial number.

To track volumes by serial number:

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Advanced tab on the left.
• To the right of Show settings containing, search for:
  serial
• Select auto_move_same_serial_number.
• Set the value to: true
• Click OK.

Another option is to index the FAT drives as a folder index by drive letter.

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the FAT tab on the left.
• Uncheck Automatically include new fixed volumes.
• Uncheck Automatically include new removable volumes.
• For each FAT drive:
  • Uncheck Include in database.
• Click the Folders tab on the left.
• Click Add....
• Select your FAT drive and click OK.
• Repeat for additional drives.
• Click OK.

The problem with this method is the volume is tracked by drive letter. Nothing else.
If you plug in another FAT volume with the same drive letter it will replace your existing index when a rescan is performed.

[sk2107]

I will try that.

Thank you and best regards

[P1h3r1e3d13]

There is an option to track volumes by serial number.
However, I don't recommend enabling this setting as it is common for volumes to have the same serial number.

Thanks for the warning. I have multiple Google Drives (personal and work) and they have the same serial number:

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powershell$ Get-CIMInstance Win32_LogicalDisk | ? VolumeName -match 'goog' | select DeviceID, VolumeName, VolumeSerialNumber                                                     in pwsh at 11:50:07

DeviceID VolumeName                       VolumeSerialNumber
-------- ----------                       ------------------
G:       ************@gmail.com - Goog... 19831116
H:       ********@**.*** - Google Drive   19831116

# or:
C:\Users\enneking>vol g:
 Volume in drive G is ************@gmail.com - Goog...
 Volume Serial Number is 1983-1116

C:\Users\enneking>vol h:
 Volume in drive H is ********@**.*** - Google Drive
 Volume Serial Number is 1983-1116

I'll switch to folder-based indexing. But if there's any clever way for Everything to de-duplicate drives (match volume name? and serial?), that'd be grand.

[P1h3r1e3d13]

I mean the human-friendly string reported as

VolumeName

above, e.g.

acct@gmail.com - Google Drive

. That's user-settable for normal disks, and seems generally consistent for all types across disconnects/reconnects.
No worries, though. Folder indexing works fine.

[void]

But if there's any clever way for Everything to de-duplicate drives (match volume name? and serial?), that'd be grand.

Everything uniquely identifies volumes by volume name, for example: \\?\Volume{00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444}

The VolumeName in Powershell is really the Volume Label. Not the "Volume Name".

Unfortunately, Google Drive is creating a different volume name each time the drive is mounted.
I don't have a good way to determine it's the same drive.
Use folder indexing instead.

-I will look into treating volumes with " - Google Drive" in the label as the same drive.

[sk2107]

Thank you

Best regards