properties creating without being enabled

[Shooter3k]

I'm seeing an odd bug with the "properties" creation..... it's a bit hard to explain

I have this property added but it's currently disabled:

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However, when I sort the file results by "date created" it's continuing to create new properties on new files

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When I sort by size, it does not show up

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However, now that it's been on this page for awhile, they are starting to populate. Does it fill these in when they show up in search?????

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However, when I sort the file results by "date created" it's continuing to create new properties on new files

When a property is added under Tools -> Options -> Properties, but Include folders and include files are both unchecked, it is basically ignored.
In other words, the sha-256 property is not indexed.

Everything will gather SHA-256 for items that are visible or when you sort by SHA-256.

When I sort by size, it does not show up

It will, it will just take ages, Everything will have to read the large file and calculate the SHA-256.

Does it fill these in when they show up in search?????

Yes.



Are you trying to prevent Everything from gathering the sha-256 property?

[santilli]

According to the provided images, it seems to be following the expected behavior.

IF a property is not marked to be indexed AND its column is visible in the results list, the properties will be fetched in real time, prioritizing the files that are currently on screen, from top to bottom. When the tab/window is closed, the properties are cleared. When sorting by largest to smallest size, each file takes longer to calculate, so it might give the impression that the column is blank/not being filled, but they are, just slowly.

To avoid this behavior, you need to remove the SHA-256 column.

On a similar note, when you mark a property to be indexed and set it to include/exclude certain files or directories, Everything will NOT calculate values in real time for the files that are outside of the indexing scope.

[Shooter3k]

Ahh ok, great! Thanks for that information