I got that, out of the blue, & with no understandable reason?
IT'S THE DIRECTORY NAME !!!!!!!
if DIRNAME is... is what... is what, is what is what ... ???????
C:\DEV\Locate\DUP.from.KKK\KKK-ro\, containing:
Everything.exe
GO.bat ---> cmd /c start .\everything.exe -instance DUP.from.K -read-only -debug
result: 2-FAIL
DEL *.ini (so no .ini)
REN C:\DEV\Locate\DUP.from.KKK\KKK-ro\ -> C:\DEV\Locate\DUP.from.KKK\KKK-rox\
GO.bat ---> cmd /c start .\everything.exe -instance DUP.from.K -read-only -debug
result: 6-WORKS
ALL I DID was to change the DIRNAME where Everything was "installed" (Everything.ZIP, so
all i did was to change the dirname where Everything was "placed in").
Changing the directory name would result in Everything either being able to
or not being able to connect to the Service.
Nothing else made a difference - not .ini, not .db (all ESDb2's), not run*, not search*,
not session*, not omit*...
All default settings (i.e., no pre-existing .ini) [& so too, IPC is at its' default].
Is Service holding something open from the GUI, such that a dirname change, with the
same Instance name, causes Disconnected state?
Win7 x64
Everything 1.5.0.1404a (x86)
(that's the short story.
the long story is MUCH longer
so i copied an existing Instance, complete,
(& i used Everything
to a new, "unique" instance name, so as to not conflict with existing...)
after that, problems ensued, specifically:
> ntfs monitor read error 5 retrying in 30 seconds...
> Service: 2 (disconnected / installed and not running)
& with that, nothing was making sense
all my existing instances were working correctly
i could close & reopen existing, & they continued to work
but this "new" instance was failing, & all other subsequent new instances too were failing
& that was making no sense, disconnected
(on the fails) Indexes | NTFS
"fixed" volumes, all show as "Access denied: Install the Everything service..."
"removable" volumes (USB), do not show that (error) message
Service:
Started: a month ago (06:34:48 PM 12/22/2025) [per System Informer]
Event Viewer: 12/22/2025 The Everything (1.5a) service entered the running state.
A service was installed in the system.
Service Name: Everything (1.5a)
Service File Name: "C:\DEV\Locate\15.1404\Everything.exe" -svc
Service Type: user mode service
Service Start Type: auto start
Service Account: LocalSystem
nothing is making sense
i create all kinds of new instances, in a single directory as it was, & most i open
either -read-only or -no-auto-include, no existing nothing, except Everything.exe
& they are all failing (2-disconnected)
(instance names; abc, doobe, MULE.MULE, xxx, zzz, closeYELLOW...)
< computer goes to sleep >
< i go to sleep >
< next day >
Quit (MULE) - an existing, working instance
COPY (MULE) -> (MULE - Copy)
OPEN (MULE - Copy) ---> 6 (connected) - works - WHY ?
[i did NOT change the Instance name, only copied the directory itself, & opened with
the same -instance name (MULE)]
Quit (MULE - Copy)
then i fire up one of the above no making sense instances, (zzz), as it happened to
be, & ... guess what
6 (connected)
& yet yesterday, the very same .exe, very same .ini, very same command line - failed
& i'm like, WHY? one day it fails & the next it works?
i'll note that even though (at this point) i'm still 6 (connected),
clicking on a Index | NTFS volume (letter), on that /initial/ click, of a particular volume letter,
Debug Console still shows something like:
> open volume \\?\Volume{...bd601c5ecf5d}
> CreateFileW(): GetLastError(): 5: Failed to open volume \\?\Volume{...}
> opened ffffffff 0.010594
^--- this on a Fixed drive, & while 5: Failed, it's immaterial, as it will work
maybe that is expected?
> open volume \\?\Volume{...}
> opened 00000370 0.004266
^--- this on a removable drive (USB), it simply "opens", no Failed message like with a Fixed volume
maybe that is expected?
so what changed? nothing that i'm aware of.
so why did doing nothing different from one day to another, have different outcomes?
as Instance (zzz) was now working
i go back to (DUP.from.KKK), figuring that too will now be working?
NOPE?
& again i'm totally confused, nothing making sense. some (new) Instances are working, some not.
& i think well maybe it is this or that or the other, so i start whittling down, & still nothing
is making sense. & at some point, there is nothing left to whittle down to - except for the
directory, the directory name.
(i'll spare you the long story as it is MUCH longer
(i messed around with IPC= 1,2,3 in .ini, & not that i know what they do nor even if 1,2,3 are
correct, but that too was to no avail.)
Win7 x64, Everything .1404 (x86)
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