Preserving DB with info of dead drive

[JTCGiants56]

I had a hard drive die recently. I don't really care about the files themselves, just the file names and folder structure. I'd like to use my everything 1.5 DB to retrieve this. My 1.5 everything is set to automatically remove unhooked drives at startup but luckily I haven't opened it since the drive failed. I've made a copy of the DB itself, but what is the best why to extract this dead drive info from it?

Thanks

[void]

Sorry to hear about the hard drive failure.

To open your old Everything.db:

In Everything, from the File menu, click Open File List.
Select your old Everything.db
Search for your failed drive.
From the File menu, click Export.
Change Save as type to EFU Everything File List.
Choose a filename and click Save.

[JTCGiants56]

Sorry to hear about the hard drive failure.

To open your old Everything.db:

In Everything, from the File menu, click Open File List.
Select your old Everything.db
Search for your failed drive.
From the File menu, click Export.
Change Save as type to EFU Everything File List.
Choose a filename and click Save.

Thank you void, I was unaware the .db file could be opened like a .efu in 1.5.

Are you aware if the .efu preserves things like folder date creation in 1.5? I don't believe it did in 1.4 and that is one of the things i'm looking to keep.

Thanks

[void]

EFU files will contain Date Created values if the information is indexed.

[JTCGiants56]

Hmm I receive a crc error in the bottom left when loading it.

[void]

The db is most likely corrupt, try disabling the CRC check and see if it loads..

• 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:
  crc
• Select: db_load_crc
• Set the value to: false
• Click OK.

Reload your Everything.db as a file list.

Does the issue persist?

[JTCGiants56]

I receive "unexpected end of database file" after that.

[void]

Send me the Everything.db and I will my best to convert it to an EFU file.

[JTCGiants56]

Appreciate but think I'm all good now. Was able to trick everything by turning off the option to remove offline drives. Then swapped my old db in for the current one. Was then able to export the efu from there. Thanks again

[JTCGiants56]

I was able to preserve some of my old file structure. I would like to compare my current drive with the .efu I created from before the crash to see what is still missing. Is this possible with everything?

[void]

Kind-of.

I recommend the following:

• Create a 'new' EFU of the current drive.
• Use a diff tool on the two EFU files.

Everything has really basic support for finding matching or missing files.

To show missing files:

• In Everything, from the File menu, click Open File List.
• Select your old EFU file (before the crash) and click Open.
• Search for:
  !filelist1:
• Right click the filelist1: text in the search box and click Edit File List Slot....
• Click Import.
• Select your new EFU file (from the current drive) and click Open.
• or, instead of importing, click Add Folders and select your current drive.

[JTCGiants56]

Kind-of.

I recommend the following:

• Create a 'new' EFU of the current drive.
• Use a diff tool on the two EFU files.

Everything has really basic support for finding matching or missing files.

To show missing files:

• In Everything, from the File menu, click Open File List.
• Select your old EFU file (before the crash) and click Open.
• Search for:
  !filelist1:
• Right click the filelist1: text in the search box and click Edit File List Slot....
• Click Import.
• Select your new EFU file (from the current drive) and click Open.
• or, instead of importing, click Add Folders and select your current drive.

Thank you, I do have beyondcompare which is really great at this. I've seen some other threads mentioning this app and everything but I'm not sure if my case is similar. Are you aware if it's possible to load an efu into there to compare with my current drive? I know this is out of your purview as it's a different app but curious if there is a quick known way.

[void]

Sorry, I am not familiar with beyondcompare.