How to index/search all the Mac files in Parallels on Mac M1/2/3/4 (Apple Silicon)

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vaoried
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How to index/search all the Mac files in Parallels on Mac M1/2/3/4 (Apple Silicon)

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Enviornment:
Macbook M3
Parallels Version 20.4.1 (55996) (the most updated one)
Windows 11 24H2 newly installed by Parallels (so it should be the ARM version)
Everything-1.4.1.1032.ARM64.en-US.zip

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Without any extra settings, Everything shows only the files in the C drive. Some years ago I managed to let Everything in Parallels/Windows show Mac's system files, but now it's endlessly scanning. I can't figure it out. Please help me! 💖

Setting on Parallels:
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Setting on Mac:
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Then on Windows in Parallels, it shows the root folder of Mac
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Everything -> Options -> Folders -> Added \\Mac\AllFiles
either
- Mac Files/AllFiles
- Network/Mac/AllFiles
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Everything is endlessly scanning
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But some years ago Everything worked like this:
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void
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Re: How to index/search all the Mac files in Parallels on Mac M1/2/3/4 (Apple Silicon)

Post by void »

Please check which folder Everything is scanning:
  • In Everything, type in the following search and press ENTER:
    /debug

    ---This will show the debug console.
  • In Everything, type in the following search and press ENTER:
    /verbose
  • The folder currently being scanned is shown in Green text.
  • Is Everything stuck on a particular folder? is there a circular reference in there somewhere? is Everything just slow?


To close the debug console:
  • In Everything, type in the following search and press ENTER:
    /debug


Everything 1.5 ARM
vaoried
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Re: How to index/search all the Mac files in Parallels on Mac M1/2/3/4 (Apple Silicon)

Post by vaoried »

Thanks a lot! It's really helpful!
It was scanning slowly in
\\Mac\AllFiles\Users\kimdongryeong\Library\CloudStorage\GoogleDrive-example@gmail.com\My Drive\Google Photos\

So it was literally taking a long time (over an hour) to scan Google Drives that were mounted on Mac.

Everything -> Options -> Excludes, excluding this path
\\Mac\AllFiles\Users\kimdongryeong\Library\CloudStorage\
resolved the problem. It fished scanning under 10 minutes.

I wondered if it was particularly because of this folder "..\Google Photos\" (because 'Google Photos' is a special folder that Google created.)

So I removed
..\CloudStorage\
from Excludes and added
..\CloudStorage\GoogleDrive-example@gmail.com\My Drive\Google Photos\

Then it took 30-40 minutes to finish scanning. It seems Google Drives are the problem in general. I guess if I include everything and no exclusion, it would take maybe around 2 hours. Is there any way to speed up? in ..\CloudStorage\ there are three Google Drives and one OneDrive, and they are all streaming and all 3TB.

Thank you for your time and really thank you for making this greatest tool!!
void
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Re: How to index/search all the Mac files in Parallels on Mac M1/2/3/4 (Apple Silicon)

Post by void »

(Sorry the attached images are too big. How to adjust the image sizes?)
phpbb should auto size the images to fit.
The images look fine.


Is there any way to speed up?
There's no way to speed up indexing of Google Drives.
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