Why are columns like "Available Free Disk Size", etc. suddenly empty?

[Biff]

Why are the values of columns like "Available Free Disk Size", etc. suddenly empty after plugging off a drive?



When I connect N: those values are shown, when I disconnect it (with "savely remove") they are not.

What could I do to always show them (when the drive is plugged off)?

[void]

Thanks for the issue report Biff,

Everything tried to gathered the property values for these volumes when they were offline.
The property values will appear empty because the volume unavailable.

Everything will periodically try to update your volume properties.
Pressing F5 will also clear any property values.



The next alpha update will flag some property values as offline.
This will help prevent updating volumes with empty values.

[Biff]

Thank you!

Everything tried to gathered the property values for these volumes when they were offline.

So obviously it did not do that before.

Everything will periodically try to update your volume properties.

I thought it would do it when the drives are online.

This will help prevent updating volumes with empty values.

But why didn't it happen before? Why did it work before?

With Z: is still works like it did before. No missing values.

Do I have to do anything?

[void]

But why didn't it happen before? Why did it work before?

There is a race condition here where Everything sees the volume as online, but when Everything goes to update these properties, the volume has gone offline.

It should be fixed in the next alpha update.

Your Z: drive appears to be online so should have the correct properties.

Do I have to do anything?

You don't have to do anything, you can plug the drive back in if you wanted this information now.
I'll have a fix soon.

[Biff]

Your Z: drive appears to be online so should have the correct properties.

I generally is offline, when I connect it those values are updated, when I plug it off then the values are kept (the last time at least).

You don't have to do anything, you can plug the drive back in if you wanted this information now.
I'll have a fix soon.

Ah, OK, great! Thank you very much!

[void]

Everything 1.5.0.1359a improves handling of properties on offline volumes.

Everything should now correctly keep your volume property values when they go offline.

[Biff]

Ah, that is great, thank you very much!

[Rene]

i hate to revive an old thread but this issue still happens in v1.5.0.1402a

[tuska]

Hi,

In my case, it was the “Total Size” column that recently remained empty after extensive view changes or column changes.
Restarting Everything 1.5.0.1402a (x64) refilled the columns.

Options - 1.5.0.1402a (x64)
Indexes > ☑ Index file size
Properties > Property “Total Size” was NOT indexed on 04.12.2025 since the performance was sufficient for me.

I added “Total Size” on 05.12.2025 to the properties to be sure that the column is filled.

[void]

Everything doesn't keep offline information across sessions.

Please try including Available Free Disk Size, Free Disk Size and Total Disk Size in your index:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Properties tab on the left.
• Click Add...
• Select
  Available Free Disk Size
  and click OK.
• Set exclude folders to:
  **\**
• Click Add...
• Select
  Free Disk Size
  and click OK.
• Set exclude folders to:
  **\**
• Click Add...
• Select
  Total Disk Size
  and click OK.
• Set exclude folders to:
  **\**
• Click OK.

Everything will need to see your disk again to gather this information, but it should be kept across sessions now.

[Rene]

ok, that worked for me, thanks!

but yunno, it's all information anyway right ? why not add those sizes in the same table as the volume names, serial number and the rest ?

it's only a few bytes but it would be very helpful to know the free space of all my drives at a glance. i like knowing that info when i have to juggle external drives to copy & move my files.

[void]

I will consider caching more volume information in a future version of Everything.
Thank you for the suggestion.