Situation:
- Added a couple of properties to be indexed.
- All of the included folders for these properties are on an offline fileshare.
- Connected to the fileshare
- Everything starts indexing these file properties
- 4 Different tabs in Everything; the second one is active
- Progress bar is shown in the second tab, but not in the others.
- Closing the second tab stops the indexing process.
Shouldn't the indexing process keep running?
(also: quite unsure, but I vaguely remember to see the progressbar in all tabs in an older version?)
(v1399a btw)
Updating bound to a tab?
Re: Updating bound to a tab?
Thanks for the issue report NotNull,
Since the file share is offline, all the property values will be empty.
In a sense, property indexing is complete.
(even though there's probably missing properties from your file share)
Everything will do a basic filename rescan of your file share when it is detected as online.
New files and folders will detected.
New files and folders will request index property values.
However, no progress bar should be shown. -This is done silently in the background.
Maybe the progress bar was for something else? like a property search or sort?
To update the missing property values:
Search for the missing values, select all and press Ctrl + F5.
For example, your file share is the J: drive, and you added length to your index, search for:
j: !length:
Select all results and hit Ctrl + F5.
If you see the issue again, please select the tab showing the progress bar and send your Help -> Troubleshooting information.
For clarification, updating indexed properties is not bound to a tab.
At this stage, Everything would have done a reindex.- All of the included folders for these properties are on an offline fileshare.
Since the file share is offline, all the property values will be empty.
In a sense, property indexing is complete.
At this stage, Everything still thinks property indexing is complete.- Connected to the fileshare
(even though there's probably missing properties from your file share)
Everything will do a basic filename rescan of your file share when it is detected as online.
New files and folders will detected.
New files and folders will request index property values.
However, no progress bar should be shown. -This is done silently in the background.
Maybe the progress bar was for something else? like a property search or sort?
To update the missing property values:
Search for the missing values, select all and press Ctrl + F5.
For example, your file share is the J: drive, and you added length to your index, search for:
j: !length:
Select all results and hit Ctrl + F5.
If you see the issue again, please select the tab showing the progress bar and send your Help -> Troubleshooting information.
For clarification, updating indexed properties is not bound to a tab.
Re: Updating bound to a tab?
That is good news.void wrote: Fri Nov 07, 2025 12:04 am For clarification, updating indexing properties is not bound to a tab.
Added information: as I was surprised by what I saw, I also opened the Options > Properties page and saw scanning in progress. Didn't check the exact filenames being scanned, but when I closed the tab, the scanning stopped there too. Could be coincidence.
Anyway, scanning properties isn't bound to a tab so all is OK.