Everything seems to lose index

[dalemccl]

Long time happy user of Everything. I am using the latest 64-bit version with Windows 7 Professional. I have installed it as administrator.

For the last few months, often when I start up Everything, it cannot find anything, even files I know exist. It always says "0 Objects" at the bottom. This is happening with increased regularity. Re-installing the program fixes the problem, temporarily. After re-installation, on first start-up of the program, it scans the drives and rebuilds the index. A day or two later, the problem re-occurs and I have to re-install again. (Is there a way to force Everything to re-scan the drives without re-installing?)

I have a lot of drives -- over 20 of them. Many of them are external USB 3.0 drives. The USB drives tend to disappear from Windows fairly frequently and I have to pull the drive's USB cable and plug it back in to let Windows re-discover the drive. I wonder if the Everything problem is related to the disappearing drives. The program is monitoring them for changes, then a drive disappears from Windows and perhaps that is what causes the problem? Just a theory.

[void]

There maybe an issue with one of your drives which would cause the 0 objects issue.
Please check your usn drive volumes for errors.

Please try enabling Keep offline volumes.
This should stop Everything re-indexing all drives when you remove a external usb drive.

I am working on improving the indexing of external usb drives without the need for re-indexing everything.

[dalemccl]

Thank you; I will try that.