Limit background activity based on power conditions?

[badbob001]

I have this installed on my laptop and want to have control over the app's prioritization of performance and power usage.
Specifically, I want an option to skip background tasks such as scheduled rescans under certain power conditions such as:

• when on battery power
• battery is below a certain percentage
• system is in low power mode.

Or maybe just have the app monitor a single user-controlled item like an environment variable or file to determine when to run background processes. This way, the user can use their own logic in an external app or script to affect the variable/file. Or does the app have an api interface to modify its behavior in real-time?

[void]

I will consider options to disable rescanning when on battery.
Thank you for the suggestion.



For now, please disable scheduled rescanning and manually rescan your volumes when needed.

To disable scheduled rescanning for folders:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Folders tab on the left.
• For each folder:
  • Check Never rescan.
• Click OK.

To disable scheduled rescanning for FAT volumes:

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the FAT tab on the left.
• For each FAT volume:
  • Check Never rescan.
• Click OK.

There's no API to toggle rescanning.
You can set your folders/FAT-volumes with -folders/-fat-volumes. (Get your current folders/FAT-volumes from Help -> Troubleshooting information)
You can force a rescan of all volumes with: -rescan-all