network drive randomly disapears

[DerrickGood]

When I add my network drive it works great for an indeterminate amount of time. Sometimes one day, sometimes a few weeks. Then then suddenly the drive is not listed anymore.

[void]

This can occur if you are not storing settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything.

Is Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything enabled?

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the General tab on the left.
• Is Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything checked?
• Please check Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything.
• Click OK.

This can occur if you launch Everything as an administrator.
Please run Everything as a standard user:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the General tab on the left.
• Uncheck Run as administrator.
• Check Everything Service. (Please make sure this is tick-checked and not square-checked)
• Click OK.
• Exit Everything (right click the Everything tray icon and click Exit).
• Restart Everything.

This can also occur if your Everything database is not being saved to disk on shutdown.
The database might be in a bad state after a reboot causing Everything to perform a complete rebuild on startup.
Your network drives might not be available on startup.
Please try starting Everything with a delay.
One way to do this is to edit the run command under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Change the Everything command to:
"C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe" -startup -load-delay 60000
where 60000 is the number of milliseconds to delay loading and updating the Everything database on startup.
This delay should give Windows enough to map your network drive.


Please let me know if the issue persists.

[therube]

When the drives disappear from Everything, do they also disappear from Windows (Explorer or whatnot)?

This can occur if you are not storing settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything.

Why?

[NotNull]

When the drives disappear from Everything, do they also disappear from Windows (Explorer or whatnot)?

This can occur if you are not storing settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything.

Why?

For example because Everything.exe is in a non-writable location and the database will be stored there too if that option is not set.
Which means that the database can't be stored and has to be rebuild from scratch upon next start.
That isn't very noticeable for local (NTFS) storage, but certainly is for network volumes.