"Saving Everything database to disk" message on every shutdown

[Michael_88]

Hi,

Every time I shut down my computer, I get a message that says "Saving Everything database to disk" that briefly delay the shutdown process.

Is this normal? Is there a setting I might have missed that's causing this to happen every time?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[therube]

About how many files in your .db?

Before you go to shut down, do you close Everything first, or do you simply tell the computer to shut down & expect it to close any programs that you might have open?


(I wouldn't think it to be normal, particularly, but I don't shut down, only sleep.)

[tuska]

In my case, the file “Everything.db” is about 1.5 GB in size mainly because of the indexing of file contents.
I have also received this message (Saving Everything database to disk) before.

When 'Everything' is closed, this file is saved, and when the PC is shut down,
'Everything' saves, among other things, the “Everything.db” file, and this takes some time.

If you want to avoid this message, you can close 'Everything' completely (menu “File” > Exit) shortly before shutting down the PC.

[Michael_88]

About how many files in your .db?

Before you go to shut down, do you close Everything first, or do you simply tell the computer to shut down & expect it to close any programs that you might have open?

I have around 500,000 files in my database. And no, I just shut down the computer without closing Everything first.

In my case, the file “Everything.db” is about 1.5 GB in size mainly because of the indexing of file contents.
I have also received this message (Saving Everything database to disk) before.

When 'Everything' is closed, this file is saved, and when the PC is shut down,
'Everything' saves, among other things, the “Everything.db” file, and this takes some time.

If you want to avoid this message, you can close 'Everything' completely (menu “File” > Exit) shortly before shutting down the PC.

Thanks for your suggestion, I'll give that a try.

[NotNull]

Is this normal? Is there a setting I might have missed that's causing this to happen every time?

Yes, that is quite normal. Everything needs time to write its database to disk.
To see how many data Everything needs to write to disk, type or paste the following search in Everything's search bar and check the Size column:

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It is possible to reconfigure Windows to give applications less or more time before "complaining", but that is not neededd in this case, as it does not give any issues.