Everything crashes when searching

[Advicon]

First of all the app is amazing!
That being said I do have some problems with unexpected termination / crash of the program when I enter certain search terms. It can either happen right away when it type in the search term or when I'm scrolling though the results. Again it can happen right away or it can be much further down.
I cant figure it out. Is there a way to see what is causing it? A dump log or something so that I can remedy the problem. Thanks in advance

[void]

Thank you for your feedback Advicon,

This issue is most likely caused by a bad icon shell extension.

Please try disabling icon shell extensions and see if the issue persists:
Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:

/icon_shell_extensions=0

Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
If successful, icon_shell_extensions=0 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.

[Advicon]

Thanks for your quick reply.
I entered it as you say and I saw the message in the status bar but the problem persists.

[NotNull]

Trying to zoom in on the root cause ..

- Was the Preview pane opened when the crashes occurred? Try it without the preview pane (Menu => View => Preview )

- Was Everything in thumbnail view? Try details view instead (Menu => View => Details )

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Preview pane closed file thumbnails on problem persists
With the preview pane open and file view to details the problem stops.
With preview pane and thumbnails on but no search term in the search bar ((so all my files are listed (476,903 objects)) the program doesn't crash
Search with the above for keyword "200" (11,268 objects) its crashes

So maybe its a thumbnail generation problem? Can I reset the thumbnails in some way

[void]

Some thumbnail handlers explode when the filename length exceeds 259 characters.

Please try enabling shell_max_path:

• Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
  
  /shell_max_path=1
• Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
• If successful, shell_max_path=1 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.

This will prevent loading thumbnails with a filename length of 260 characters or more.
Does the issue persist?



Please try Everything 1.5.
Everything 1.5 has improved handling of thumbnail exceptions.

[Advicon]

I downloaded 1.5 and the problem disappeared!!
It must have been what you had said about the 260 characters.
All good though!

Thank your help!

[Advicon]

So I ended up having to also type /shell_max_path=1 in the address bar. Now everything looks like it works ok!
Thank again