everything does not remember my offline dive.

[irish]

i have a fat32 drive which i have indexed as a folder in everything. It's usually connected to my tv.
Yesterday I added the line
keep_missing_indexes=1
to my ini.file.
This morning while the drive was disconnected, I did some tests to see if everything would find something which I knew to be on the drive. It didn't. Perhaps I'm mistaken. But I thought it had the ability to achieve this.

[void]

Does Everything find anything on the offline volume? try searching for the offline volumes drive letter followed by a colon. For example if your offline drive is your E: drive, search for:
e:

Does Everything find any results?

If not its most likely Everything has rebuilt the index and lost your offline index.
You will need to re-index with the offline volume attached, or try the Everything 1.4 beta for improved offline volume indexing.

[therube]

If you don't need your online & offline files shown together, you could always set up a separate instance specifically for your offline files. (Can even use different icons to differentiate one instance from another.)

[irish]

Thanks for replies. folks. i will try the new version/

[irish]

I have installed the latest version, and indexed the problem drive.
I will see if it remembers stuff after I have unplugged it for a while.

[irish]

A few hours later
update. I had the drive plugged out, and did a search for something that i knew to be there.
It didn't.
I also had turned off the computer
I also did a search for content from a file belonging to a drive that wasn't connected.
It had found the content quickly before.
This time, it couldn't find it. It's not that it was slow, it just gave no results.
Then i noticed that the database was pointing to the D (cd/dvd) drive. i knew that couldn't be right.
So assuming that the database is the ini file, I pointed it in the right direction.
this time, it found the file content i was looking for.
I'll be intersted to see if this will have any bearing in finding stuff in offline volumes too.

[irish]

No. It didn;t work.
i was wondering how I should deal with this drive as regards updating
It's a drive i might hook up to the computer once or twice a week, if even that.

[void]

Could you please run Everything in debug mode:
In Everything, press Ctrl + ~
What is displayed an the top of the debug console?

It should look something like:
Everything
Version 1.4.0.713b (x86) DEBUG
Windows NT 6.1
Processors 4
IsAdmin 0
AppData 1
Service 1
cmdline C:\Program Files (x86)\Everything\Everything.exe

Where is your database location? (under Tools -> Options -> Indexes)

To hide the debug console:
In Everything, press Ctrl + ~

[irish]

debugging awkward.to do.
Saw where database was.
Wrong location in Everything.
Corrected.
Hopefully will work, this time.

[irish]

Update.
Turned off computer, and back on again.
Everything remembered items on offline drive
I just realised, i could have just added the drive as a list, either.

[therube]

> Saw where database was.

Do you mean, Everything.db?

> Wrong location in Everything.

Where was it?

> Corrected.

Where did you move it to?

[irish]

Database not moved
yes.everything db
everything pointing to wrong file
my faultt
all okay at moment
Thank you.