Slowest thing I've ever experienced

[IsJohnDoe]

So I'm on day three of Everything indexing my computer. Yup three days straight.
It's currently at 39%.

The Windows 10 index took ten minutes.
Whenever I close Everything, a few days later turn it on again it feels the need to rebuild the index and sit there indexing for days on end.
You got to be kidding me.

[void]

Indexing just filenames shouldn't take longer than a few seconds.

What are you indexing?

[IsJohnDoe]

What version of Everything are you using?

Indexing just filenames shouldn't take longer than a few seconds.

Everything Version 1.5.0.1383a (x64)

I'm indexing Attributes, Container File Count, Date Created, Picture Dimensions, Frame Rate, Date and Time Modified, Page Count, Rating, Size, Sync Status, Tags.

So these things should take a ten minute index to an hour. Not three days.
I'm actually thinking of getting rid of these property indexes, and just using the Directory Opus Find tool, cause I can't keep having this happen.

[void]

You can search your Windows index from Everything with si:

Could you please send your Help -> Trouble Shooting Information.
(Just the properties= line)

Whenever I close Everything, a few days later turn it on again it feels the need to rebuild the index and sit there indexing for days on end.

Please check the rebuild reason from Tools -> Debug -> Statistics -> Build -> Last Rebuild Reason

[IsJohnDoe]

You can search your Windows index from Everything with si:

I had nothing but a fight with the Windows AQS. I'm using filters with Dopus, and there are some things the Windows index doesn't support. Like tags for png files etc. The Dopus metadata that Windows doesn't support are sidecar with Dopus. So I have to use the Everything index.

Could you please send your Help -> Trouble Shooting Information.
(Just the properties= line)

Whenever I check on the index the slow down is with audio files. I have a lot of samples; it takes Everything forever to get through them.

Here is the properties line:

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Config:	properties=[{"name":"Container File Count","include_folders":1,"include_files":0,"exclude_folders":"E:\\;C:\\Users\\me\\Documents\\OneDrive;B:\\;D:\\","exclude_not_content_indexed":1,"fast_sort":1},{"name":"Day Created","include_folders":1,"exclude_folders":"E:\\;C:\\Users\\me\\Documents\\OneDrive;B:\\;D:\\","exclude_not_content_indexed":1},{"name":"Dimensions","exclude_folders":"E:\\;C:\\Users\\me\\Documents\\OneDrive;B:\\;D:\\","include_only_files":"*.jpg;*.png;*.gif;*.tif;*.tiff;*.mkv;*.mp4;*.avi;*.flv;*.webm","exclude_not_content_indexed":1,"fast_sort":1},{"name":"Frame Rate","exclude_folders":"E:\\;C:\\Users\\me\\Documents\\OneDrive;B:\\;D:\\","include_only_files":"*.mkv;*.mp4;*.avi;*.flv;*.webm","exclude_not_content_indexed":1},{"name":"Page Count","exclude_folders":"E:\\;C:\\Users\\me\\Documents\\OneDrive;B:\\;D:\\","include_only_files":"*.doc;*.docx;*.xls;*.xlsx;*.gdoc;*.pdf;*.rtf","exclude_not_content_indexed":1,"fast_sort":1},{"name":"property-system:System.FileAttributes","include_folders":1,"exclude_folders":"E:\\;C:\\me\\trevr\\Documents\\OneDrive;B:\\;C:\\Users\\me\\Downloads","exclude_not_content_indexed":1,"fast_sort":1},{"name":"property-system:System.OfflineFiles.Modified","include_folders":1,"exclude_folders":"E:\\;C:\\Users\\me\\Documents\\OneDrive;B:\\;D:\\","exclude_not_content_indexed":1,"fast_sort":1},{"name":"property-system:System.OfflineFiles.ModifiedTime","include_folders":1,"exclude_folders":"E:\\;C:\\Users\\me\\Documents\\OneDrive;B:\\;D:\\","exclude_not_content_indexed":1,"fast_sort":1},{"name":"property-system:System.Size","include_folders":1,"exclude_not_content_indexed":1,"fast_sort":1},{"name":"property-system:System.StructuredQuery.Virtual.DateCreated","include_folders":1,"exclude_folders":"E:\\;C:\\Users\\me\\Documents\\OneDrive;B:\\;D:\\","exclude_not_content_indexed":1,"fast_sort":1},{"name":"property-system:System.Sync.Status","include_folders":1,"include_only_folders":"B:\\GDrive;B:\\Dropbox;C:\\Users\\me\\Documents\\OneDrive","exclude_not_content_indexed":1,"fast_sort":1},{"name":"Rating","include_folders":1,"exclude_folders":"E:\\;C:\\Users\\me\\Documents\\OneDrive;B:\\;D:\\","exclude_not_content_indexed":1,"fast_sort":1},{"name":"Tags","include_folders":1,"exclude_folders":"E:\\;C:\\Users\\me\\Documents\\OneDrive;B:\\;D:\\","exclude_not_content_indexed":1,"fast_sort":1}]

Please check the rebuild reason from Tools -> Debug -> Statistics -> Build -> Last Rebuild Reason

The last rebuild reason is: "NTFS GUID changed."

Thanks for looking at this.

[void]

Thank you for the property setting.

A few issues that can cause the slow property indexing:

Index Attributes under Tools -> Options -> Indexes -> Index Attributes (instead of Tools -> Options -> Properties -> Attributes)
-Indexing this property under Tools->Options->Properties for all files is slow.

Container File Count will only work for zip, 7z and rar files. (not folders)
Everything already has a Child File Count property that is always indexed.

Index Created under Tools -> Options -> Indexes -> Index Date Created (instead of Tools -> Options -> Properties -> Created)
-Indexing this property under Tools->Options->Properties for all files is slow.

Avoid indexing Day Created. (slow)
-If you index Date Created under Tools -> Options -> Indexes, the day created value is pulled from the indexed Date Created value. (no need to index Day created)

Index Created under Tools -> Options -> Indexes -> Index Date Created (instead of Tools -> Options -> Properties -> Created)
-Indexing this property under Tools->Options->Properties for all files is slow.

Avoid indexing Modified under Tools -> Options -> Properties. (slow)
Use the native Date Modified property that should already be indexed under Tools -> Options -> Indexes -> Index Date Modified.

Avoid indexing Day Modified. (slow)
-If you index Date Modified under Tools -> Options -> Indexes, the day modified value is pulled from the indexed Date Modified value. (no need to index Day modified)

Set Include only files for your Rating property.
For example:

*.mp3;*.jpg

Otherwise, Everything will attempt to gather this property for all files (slow)

Avoid indexing Size under Tools -> Options -> Properties. (slow)
Use the native Size property that should already be indexed under Tools -> Options -> Indexes -> Index Size.

-If you index Date Modified, the day modified value is pulled from the indexed Date Modified value. (no need to index Day modified)

Set include only files for your Tags property.
For example:

*.mp4;*.jpg;*.docx

Otherwise, Everything will attempt to gather this property for all files (slow)

Sync status should be fine because it's limited to only a small subset of folders.

Dimensions, Frame Rate are fine as you specify only a small subset of files.

The last rebuild reason is: "NTFS GUID changed."

A new NTFS volume was indexed.
-or-
A existing NTFS volume was removed from the index.

A reindex will cause Everything to gather the properties for the new volume.
Everything will re-use existing indexed properties where possible.

I recommend disabling the "automatically include new volumes" option:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the NTFS tab on the left.
• Uncheck Automatically include new fixed volumes.
• Uncheck Automatically include new removable volumes.
• Uncheck Automatically remove offline volumes.
• Click OK.

Does the reindexing issue persist?

[IsJohnDoe]

A few issues that can cause the slow property indexing:

Ok thank you.
I made all those changes and forced a rebuild. It seems I should have read the manual more.

Most of the index was back to being very fast. But it was still the same speed when indexing my sample library. So I just excluded it instead of have this issue. In some of the other folders I sat and watched Everything go at a turtles pace every time it came across audio. So sadly I won't be able to index my audio samples; Everything really struggles with that.

Does the reindexing issue persist?

I already had all those options unchecked.
It will be a while before I know if it's still happening. But now that my samples are excluded the ram use is less so I might just keep Everything running at all times, which would probably fix the issue anyway.

[IsJohnDoe]

Anytime I come back to check on the index progress I've noticed Everything gets stuck on .webp files. It just sits there every time it comes across that file type. So I've removed that type from being included. Also every time I change the properties setup Everything freezes and I have to end the task and relaunch it again. That might be connected to the .webp issue, I don't know. Just so you're aware of these things.