everything.exe disconnects my external drives sometimes

[everyvera]

This is something that is going on some time already, but I can't explain why :
I have 5 external USB drives, which are all mounted as 5 veracrypt volumes (win11)
They drives never get disconnected, but when I launch Everything.exe, suddenly one ore more vera mounted disks (ntfs) get 'disconnected' : this can be already after 20 minutes after launching everything.exe, or this can be after 3 weeks... There is no real clue what exactly is triggering this, except that everything.exe needs to be running...
These mounted veracrypt volumes are all ntfs. I'm using portable version of everything.exe, which is on 1 of the mounted veracrypt volumes. The everything.db file is around 550MB.
There are no event log messages (windows) before the disks get disconnected (only after they've got disconnected, there are some messages indicating data could not be saved because some drives 'disappeared'...)
This only happens when everything.exe is running... When everything.exe is not running, it all stays 'connected' without any problems.

The drive disconnections are only in 'a split second', because imediately after the disconnects of the drives, they are instantly back again, but of course veracrypt needs to mount them again, which is very annoying...

Any help in here?

[void]

Everything uses FSCTL_READ_USN_JOURNAL to monitor changes to NTFS volumes.

There's no good reason why this would cause a drive to disconnect.



Some things to try:

Disable USB power saving.

Enable Everything debug logging from Tools -> Debug -> Start Debug Logging.
After a drive disconnect, stop logging under Tools -> Debug -> Stop Debug Logging.
This will open your %TEMP%\Everything Debug Log.txt
Check this file for:
ntfs monitor read error <error-code> retrying in 30 seconds...
What is the error-code?

Check the drive for errors.
Maybe Everything is hitting a bad sector?
Please backup anything important on your drive before checking it for errors.
In Windows Explorer, right click your drive and click Properties.
Click the Tools tab.
Click Check now...
Click Start
If prompted to schedule a scan on the next restart, click Yes.

Set Everything to update in background mode:

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Advanced tab on the left.
• To the right of Show settings containing, search for:
  update
• Select: ntfs_update_thread_mode_background
• Set the value to: true
• Click OK.

Note: if there's always IO to the drive, it's possible Everything will never update.

Try shorter cords for your USB devices.

Index your drives as folders instead of NTFS volumes
(remove from Tools -> Options -> NTFS and add to Tools -> Options -> Folders)

[everyvera]

Thanks for your reply.
I was using version 1.4.1.1032
I'm now trying v1.5.0.1404a
I've also set Everything to update in background mode
debug is running too...

So far, so good. Currently no issues... Let's hope it stays this way...