Willing to help w/ Directory Opus "EverythingFolderSize" integration problem?

[trufindR]

I'm posting as < happydog > on the dOpus forum - the last several posts of this thread :

https://resource.dopus.com/t/everything ... s/44281/94

I had a brief few minutes of Mind-Blowing success w/ the speed of Everything simultaneously calculating
folder sizes on 2 very full & directory - file heavy x-hdds (4 & 5 TB),
but after a reboot, the EFS column resorted to - blank - .

I'd greatly appreciate Help to get this up and running -
will be glad to re-state the context + steps here if you'd like -
but wanted to ask the permission first, Thank You

[NotNull]

Without reading the entire thread on the Dopus forum:

Everything must be running in the background.
You can either start Everything manually or let it start automatically with the system:

• In Everything, go to menu:Tools => Options => General
• Enable Start Everything on system startup
• Press the OK button
• Accept the UAC prompt (and provide credentials if asked for)
• Done.

Keep Everything running and see if the foldersize column now gets populated in Directory Opus.

If not:

• Start Command Prompt (cmd.exe)
• Run the following two commands
  (assuming es.exe is in the %PATH%. If not, browse to the folder where es.exe resides first)

  Code: Select all

  es.exe   -instance 1.5a   everything   ext:exe
  es.exe   everything  ext:ini

Do you get results back for each command?

[NotNull]

Reading the discussion on the Dopus forums:

Pleas uncheck Run as administrator.
It is not needed and gives sub optimal results (compared to enabling Everything Service without Run as Administrator)

[trufindR]

Thx for your response - I'm running w10 UAC off (as Admin)

I've done those (7) bullet points.

Contents of "C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a" :

cli.c
es.exe
Everything64.exe
Everything-1.5a.ini

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Here's what happens w/ cmd line:

C:\Windows\System32>cd "C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a"
C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a>es.exe -instance 1.5a everything ext:exe
Access is denied.

When I run cmd.exe I get this error message in the green applet box:
"This app can't run on your PC
To find a version for your PC< check with the software publisher."

What app is it talking about - cmd.exe? for Heaven's sake? or es.exe - which I dL'd fresh from here today!

Next I'll list what happens when I ran it in PS 5.1.19041.1682 - get the same response for both commands you asked me to run:

PS C:\Users\d> cd "C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a"
PS C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a> es.exe -instance 1.5a everything ext:exe
es.exe : The term 'es.exe' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script
file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included,
verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ es.exe -instance 1.5a everything ext:exe
+ ~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (es.exe:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
Suggestion [3,General]: The command es.exe was not found, but does exist in the current location. Windows PowerShell does not load commands from the current location by default. If you trust this command, instead type: ".\es.exe". See "get-help about_Command_Precedence" for more details.

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Awaiting further instructions, Thanks.

[horst.epp]

es.exe is the Everything command line tool.
Download it from https://www.voidtools.com/ES-1.1.0.26.zip
and store es.exe in the same dir as Everything.
Use the full path in your scripts.

[trufindR]

Thank you @horst.epp - as mentioned in the top of my post, that's exactly the version I dL'd/installed yesterday, and where it's located.

[trufindR]

It's working now - again -

Incredulous - I go back to look in the "C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a" folder,
and suddenly I notice es.exe shows a Size of -0- ! How the heck did THAT happen?

Regardless, I copied over the downloaded es.exe to replace it, and F5 and BANG it works again! PTL!
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Now there's a slight different problem - a better one I think - -
Now when I run the 2 commands, here's the output :

C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a>es.exe -instance 1.5a everything ext:exe
Error 8: Everything IPC window not found. Please make sure Everything is running.

C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a>es.exe everything ext:ini
C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a\Everything-1.5a.ini
C:\Users\d\AppData\Roaming\Everything\Everything-1.5a.ini
D:\z...sager\!...Everything-1.5.0.1304a.x64.p\Everything-1.5a.ini

C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a>
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The D:\z...sager\ listing is my portable - which is disabled in favor of the installed version to make this work w/ dOpus.

[horst.epp]

Everything IPC window not found. Please make sure Everything is running
means you don't have running Everything client in the background
or you installed the Light version which doesn't have the required function for es.exe

[trufindR]

That's the wild thing about this - Everything is running as a Service, and also as the app -
so all conditions are met - there's gotta be something else goofy going on

[NotNull]

It's working now - again -

Incredulous - I go back to look in the "C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a" folder,
and suddenly I notice es.exe shows a Size of -0- ! How the heck did THAT happen?

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Now there's a slight different problem - a better one I think - -

Could be caused by some virus scanner / malware tool that flagged ES.exe as some form of malware and removed it.
On the other hand: VirusTotal flagged this as: "No security vendors and no sandboxes flagged this file as malicious". (using 71 different scanners).

Anyway, hope that ES.exe stays alive this time ...


The "slight problem" is actually not a problem. This was one of the expected results.
Testing with different Everything instances tells us more about your Everything setup an shows us which instance to use.

With your current setup, the Foldersize columns in Dopus could very well function again.
Please test and let us know the results (including potential error messages)

[trufindR]

yes - the Folder size is working - and ultra fast at that.

I went into Folder Options and set that column as Default while discarding < Size (auto) > ,
if I simply click a folder to go deeper, then EFS continues to give Folder sizes.

However, if I use a middle mouse click to open a folder in a New Tab,
I have to F5 to make it show in this deeper directory opened in a New Tab.

Those things are in dOpus' domain though.

But I still wonder why I get the "IPC window not found" - and is that a potential trouble-making issue?

Does Everything use the MBR to work so fast? Seems like that's what was discussed at dOpus.

It's just quite stunning to cold start the machine w/ (2) 5 TB x-hdds plugged in to USB 3 -
both of which are 85% full with loads of video tutorials,
and just watch it flat out rip the sizes like a nitro-burning funny car!

[void]

Please try disabling the 1.5a instance and see if that helps with "Everything IPC window not found.":

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Advanced tab on the left.
• To the right of Show settings containing, search for:
  alpha
• Select alpha_instance.
• Set the value to: false
• Click OK.

[trufindR]

It's actually already set like that: alpha_instance false

probably b/c the instructions from the dOpus forum are:

Add a line (or change) alpha_instance=0 in Everything-1.5a.ini

Meanwhile, to my limited perception, I haven't run into any other functional issues yet