Odd little pop-up window at start-up since recent update

[baroquedub]

I was prompted to upgrade Everything and on one machine got an odd message:

(which is a little odd as my system has 128GB of RAM)

but the app still seems to run fine so I've just ignored it.

The reason for this post is that on both machines (the one that threw the error and the other one that didn't) I get the same pop-up window appear at Start-Up (after windows boots):


Sometimes it's completely blank, sometimes there's a little bit of text that says ".\src\"

Pressing the button makes the text 'OK' appear on the button, and it closes the window. App still seems to run fine.

A bit of a minor inconvenience, not a hige problem, but thought you might like to know.

I'm on a Windows 10 PC. Let me know if you need any further system info.

[NotNull]

Are you running the 32-bit version of Everything perhaps?
32-bit applications are typically limited to 2 GB memory.

[baroquedub]

No, it's Version 1.4.1.1022 (x64)

[NotNull]

Your database might have gotten corrupt.

To delete the current database (Everything will build a new one automatically when started):

• Exit Everything completely (right cklick the Everything system tray icon and click Exit)
• In Explorer's address bar, type or paste the following and press ENTER:

  Code: Select all

  %localappdata%\Everything

• Delete or rename Everything.db
  If there was no Everything.db in the "%localappdata%\Everything" folder, delete/rename it in the program folder.
• Start Everything.
  (might take a little while before indexing is complete. Be patient

[void]

00010000

Your screenshot shows the x86 version of Everything.

Please backup your Everything settings:

• Exit Everything (File -> Exit)
• In Windows Explorer, type in the following address and press ENTER:
  %APPDATA%\Everything
• backup this folder.

Uninstall the x86 version of Everything from Start -> Add or remove programs.
Install the x64 version of Everything.

To restore your Everything settings:

• Exit Everything (File -> Exit)
• In Windows Explorer, type in the following address and press ENTER:
  %APPDATA%\Everything
• restore this folder from your backup.

[baroquedub]

Thank you both.

Yes, I must have stupidly installed the x86 version when doing the update. Well spotted!

After uninstalling (both versions!), reinstalling and recreating the database everything's back to normal.

As is often the case... user error!

[therube]

What tells you it's x86 rather then x64 ?

[NotNull]

In general or @baroquedub specifically?

[therube]

@void

Your screenshot shows the x86 version of Everything.

[void]

What tells you it's x86 rather then x64 ?

The number: 00010000

This is the size of memory Everything tried to allocate in hexidecimal. (65536 bytes)

This size is 32bits for x86 (8 hex characters)



For x64, this size would be 64bits (16 hex characters).
For example: 0000000000010000



A little more about memory allocation in Everything:
Everything does handle most large allocation failures. (anything larger than 65536)
However, Everything will die if it is unable to allocate 65536 or less bytes of RAM.