Everything unresponsive

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tom
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Joined: Mon Aug 22, 2016 10:25 am

Everything unresponsive

Post by tom »

Hi all!
A couple of days ago Everything started getting almost unusable for me.
Until then I used it on a two SSD machine with about 4Mio files, plus I loaded ~30Mio filenames from an .efu file.
This setup worked perfectly fine since years.
The .efu file needed a couple of seconds to load, then file search was quick and nice.
From one day to the other Everything started to be getting unresponsive whenever I key in a search.
It takes a long time to end the search until then a cursor is spinning over the everything windows.
The Window content is greyed.
I tried re-installing but the issue remains.
I tried not loading the .efu does not help the issue remains.

I'd very much appreciate any hints how get Everything back to normal.
Thanks in advance.
Tom
void
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Re: Everything unresponsive

Post by void »

Everything might be trying to process changes to your C: drive.

Please try forcing a "Everything" to build a fresh index:
  • Terminate Everything:
  • Press Ctrl + Shift + ESC to open the Task Manager.
  • In the Task Manager, Click the Applications tab.
  • Select Everything and click End Task.
  • In Windows Explorer, type in the following address:
    %LOCALAPPDATA%\Everything
  • Delete your Everything.db
  • Restart Everything.
  • After Everything rebuilds, does the unresponsive issue persist?
tom
Posts: 2
Joined: Mon Aug 22, 2016 10:25 am

Re: Everything unresponsive

Post by tom »

Thank you so much for the prompt reply!
I tried that already and the issue remained.

However, it seems as lightning fast as before, after having toggled some setting.
I am not sure what brought the improvement.
But you might be on the right track related to changes on c: as another indexer is doing changes to the file system.
However, I never ran into this before and I am using Everything almost a year on this machine.
Wonderful program!

Kind regards,
Tom
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