Network drives/folders teporarily offline: disappearing from index

[juan]

Hello, I've been a user of Everything Search for years, and a few months back I've switched to v1.5 alpha, which adds several useful and highly desirable features. As far as I can tell, the alpha is being rock solid. Other developers would mark this version as beta already, or even production. So far so good!

Here's one possible misdemeanor - I'm not sure if it's been a glitch, or maybe my system, but here it is. I have some network drives and external folders indexed. Some are listed in Options -> Indexes -> Network Drives, some in Options -> Indexes -> Folders (with a nework path of the form
\\device\dir\ ).

My issue is that sometimes these external resources disappear from the indexed files. I am not sure what triggers the problem. It maybe the network device going offline while Everything is running, or a sudden power off on the (local) system running Everything.

My question is: are these behaviors expected? Is there a way to have Everything not to delete a network resource (disk or folder) from the index when it goes offline? It might come back soon, and as it is now apparently I have to explicitly re-add and/or re-index it.

[therube]

For the Network Drives, is 'Automatically remove offline mapped network drives' deselected?
(Wonder if that actually only applies to mapped drives?)

[juan]

Thanks for your reply!

I think it used to be - it is now for sure, but I still see the drives disappear. Maybe it resets to ON by default once you restore the drive?

[void]

Thank you for your feedback juan,

For the Network Drives, is 'Automatically remove offline mapped network drives' deselected?
(Wonder if that actually only applies to mapped drives?)

Tools -> Options -> Network drives -> Automatically remove offline mapped network drives only applies to mapped network drives.

Please makes sure it is unchecked.

Maybe it resets to ON by default once you restore the drive?

This setting should never reset to ON.

as it is now apparently I have to explicitly re-add and/or re-index it.

To me it sounds like Everything is forgetting your settings.
Can you please confirm that the network drive is missing from Tools -> Options -> Network drives or Tools -> Options -> Folders.

Please make sure Everything is installed correctly:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the General tab on the left.
• Check Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything.
• Click OK.

-was this setting unchecked?
-please check if you are launching Everything with -volumes or -remove-volumes

[juan]

To me it sounds like Everything is forgetting your settings.
Can you please confirm that the network drive is missing from Tools -> Options -> Network drives or Tools -> Options -> Folders.

Please make sure Everything is installed correctly:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the General tab on the left.
• Check Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything.
• Click OK.

-was this setting unchecked?

Yes it was. I think that is the culprit. The cause might be that I've been running Everything as a portable install at first, but I have long since switched to a regular installation (before switching to 1.5 alpha, probably). Thank you! I'll check for any future misbehavior

-please check if you are launching Everything with -volumes or -remove-volumes

I'm just running the service at the default settings - I doubt such switches are included in the commandline.

Thanks as usual for the on-point, effective help, void!